New research reveals the fastest speedruns of all time

 

  • Electronics retailer Ebuyer have listed the fastest speedruns of all time
  • The quickest Super Mario 64 run, which is the fastest out of 28,000+ runs submitted, with a time of 1:37:53
  • Other GOATed runs include WRs in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Resident Evil 2

If you’ve ever watched a speedrun, or for that matter attempted one yourself, you’ll know just how skilled and dedicated the top players are in order to play at such a high standard for such a long period of time. Some runners have to concentrate for over an hour straight to try and get a new PB, let alone a WR, and that’s after having to reset a whole bunch of times at the beginning of scuffed runs. With that in mind, have you ever wondered which speedruns are simply the best of the best in their category?

Thanks to research conducted by Ebuyer, we have a list of the fastest speedruns ever in the most ran games of all time:

Game Number of runs Country with fastest time Best Time (Hours:Minutes:Seconds)
Super Mario 64 28426 United States 01:37:53
Super Mario Odyssey 18460 Italy 00:57:21
Celeste 13780 Germany 00:26:23
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 12348 Japan 01:54:16
Portal 11510 United Kingdom 00:14:45
Super Metroid 10132 Palau 00:40:46
Getting Over It 9227 Canada 00:01:03
Super Mario World 9037 Japan 01:21:39
TLOZ: Ocarina Of Time 8290 Canada 00:06:49
Super Mario Bros. 8127 United Kingdom 00:04:55
TLOZ: A Link to The Past 7743 Germany 01:23:03
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom 7232 United States 00:44:15
Resident Evil 2 (2019) 7198 United States 00:51:37
Outlast 5567 United States 00:08:06
Hades 5479 United States 00:05:32
Undertale 5291 United States 00:52:38
TLOZ: Breath of The Wild 4986 United States 00:24:57
Portal 2 4292 United States 00:57:57
Luigi’s Mansion 3970 Netherlands 00:55:38
Super Mario Bros. 3 3814 United States 00:03:02
Cuphead 3733 Italy 00:23:16
The Simpsons: Hit & Run 3648 Australia 01:19:53
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle 3570 Canada 00:21:15
Banjo-Kazooie 3203 Canada 01:56:32
Spyro The Dragon 3052 Congo, Democratic Republic 01:21:32

 

Taking the number one spot, with the best time out of 28,426 runs submitted, is an American player with a time of 1:37:53 in the 120 star category in Super Mario 64. To put this into context this time is almost a whole 30 seconds faster than the previous WR by a Japanese player, which had stood for over 6 months! With new stats being discovered quite recently in SM64, we may still get a few new WRs pretty soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

In at second place is another Mario title, Super Mario Odyssey. With a time of 57:21, an Italian player has recently taken the crown for fastest run ever out of the 18,460 runs submitted after the previous run had stood for seven months. In third comes a run by a German player with a time of 26:23, which is the fastest ever run out of all 13,780 runs submitted!

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Gáspár Incze is the youngest member of the team. Currently a university student, he is studying management at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Gáspár participated in several social initiatives, having volunteered as a tour guide at the Teleki Castle in the village of Gornești and currently working at ÉRTED, a Transylvanian Hungarian student initiative committed to community work, mainly in the cultural, scientific, economic, and environmental areas.