Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit

It wouldn&#x27;t be a SMB speedrun video if it didn&#x27;t have the bus analogy.<p>Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I&#x27;ve never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.

This is a great video, but it glosses over some of the technical aspects because it assumes the viewer already understands them. This video provides a basic gestalt of the tech used for these runs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_FQJEzJ_cQw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_FQJEzJ_cQw</a>

It‘s probably way too late to change the rules now, but even though it‘s totally legal according to the rules on the leaderboards, using a keyboard seems like quite a difference from using a controller, and from the end of the video, sounds like it does make certain moves easier.

I loved the story telling of the video. To tell the truth, the story telling was even better than most movies that I watch for entertainment.

My teenage son is currently 223rd in the world in Super Mario Bros with a sub-5 personal best. He&#x27;s explained just bits and pieces of the SMB speedrun subculture to me (frame rules, etc.) and it&#x27;s just fascinating.<p>At under 5 minutes, it seems like it&#x27;s the ideal length for practicing as well - if you screw up a full run, you at most have lost 5 minutes of time, you just start over again.<p>No-warp runs which go about 20 minutes are way more painful when you make a dumb mistake in 8-4.

That’s a surprising good video. Well done and thanks for making it!

as someone with no prior opinion or interest in speed-running, this is a surprisingly good watch!<p>some thoughts<p>- given the timeline of progress, i guess we might see THE perfect run in the next 12 months or so<p>- how did they figure out the theoretical best time in the first place?<p>- is machine learning being applied to this problem yet? might be able to discover some more time saves

Say Brothers! Say it!

The comments on this video are amazing. The fact that a content creator can bring this many people such joy is such a wonderful thing to see.

I actually watched this until the end, fascinating

is this from the pool? Because it was already submitted days ago<p>The vid title or description could use a one liner about what it&#x27;s actually about.