A new Super Mario Bros. speed runner world record was set last week and it only took the new world champion one million trillion to break the previous world record. A speedrunner named Darbian set the new world record by beating Super Mario Bros. in just 4:56.528.
It was a year ago that Darbian set the previous Super Mario Bros. speed runner world record at 4:56.878. Meaning this time around he shaved .35 seconds off his previous world record. It only took him several thousand attempts between his last world record and the new WR set on Friday to shave that .35 seconds off his time.
Have you done anything in your life tens and tens of thousands of times? Assuming you get out of bed once a day, and you’re 25-years-old, that means you’ve only gotten out of bed in the morning ~9,125 times. Let’s assume you brush your teeth 2x a day. That’s 18,250 times that you’ve brushed your teeth throughout your lifetime. This dude made tens of thousands of attempts at breaking the Super Mario Bros. speedrunner world record.
You can read more about what led up to last week’s Super Mario Bros. world record HERE on Kotaku.