In a game where the top 14 speed records are all within one second of each other, every input and every frame counts when you’re vying for the fastest time to beat Super Mario Bros. People have become so precise that they’re mere milliseconds away from reaching the known peak of human ability.
With “Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit,” YouTuber Summoning Salt lays out just how close Super Mario Bros. speedrunners have come to hitting the human limit, a theoretical time of 4 minutes, 54 seconds, and 260 milliseconds. The best runners have to execute button presses that last a single frame (in a game that runs at 60 frames per second), land jumps on spaces that are smaller than a pixel, and manage to stay composed through eight levels of the 1985 NES game to make it close to the top of the leaderboard. Read more…
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