Speedrunning has been a beloved part of gaming since the beginning, before it was even called speedrunning. Players have always tried to show their skills by putting up impressive times in their favorite games, and the ad♕vent of the Internet turned hobby club contests and write-in events into a global competition.

It's always a special moment to seeꦉ a world reco𓃲rd broken live, especially when that time has been unbeaten for years. We decided to look into the records that have stood the longest, a testament to the skill, patience, and luck of the runners. Check them out below!

These 🌞durations are for individual records; in cases where a runner beats their own time without losing the record, we've selected only the longest-standing record within that period.

8 Mario Kart 64 (Yoshi Valley, Shortcutsꦓ/3 Laps) by Alex G

N64 (PAL Version), 0'33"39

Speed is what racing games like Mario Kart are all about; breaking records is kind of the whole point. Sometimes, though, a player finds a route that's so perfect, and executes it with such precision, that it practically t🐭akes a bolt of lightning to topple their time. That's what happened with the longest-standing record in the history of Mario Kart 64, set for the Yoshi Valley track by in 2010.

Separate records are kept fo💞r the NTSC and PAL versions of Mario Kart 64, due to differences in the in-game clock.

Alex G's record, in a category that allows shortcuts like running off cliffs to get rescued by Lakitu and tricking the game into thinking you've completed a lap, required a lot of grinding to beat. The exact placement of the kart and precision of inputs on each reset made beating their ti🧔๊me a matter of frames.

Runner abney317 would break the functionally-identical NTSC record in April 2016, but the record for the PAL version stood until runner VAJ eclipsed it by 0.04 seconds in January 2021.

7 F-Zero (Practice Mo🍰de, Mute City 1) By♓ Legend

Super Famicom, 1'57"96

Runner Legend has been playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:F-Zero pretty much since it first launched for the Super Famicom, recording their first🎶 run on Mute City 1 at 1'58"82 in April 1991. They've continued to play and optimize since, shaving fractions of a second off their own record well into the 21st century.

Legend's time of 1"58"39, set in 1996, looked like it might stay in place forever... until run𒁃ner . Legend 🌞worked to reclaim the top spot, finally posting a 1'58"36 in 2009, and continued to lower the time over the next several years.

Legend remains the world record holder for Mute City 1, and the current time, set in January 2015, is also the . Will Legend hꦑave to defend their title again, or is this record there to stay after mor🎀e than a decade?

6 Super Mario Kart (Ghost Valley 1 Fast😼est Lap) By KVD

SNES (NTSC Version), 0'11"65

Rather than completing a full race, some runners try to see how quickly they can manage a single lap on their favorite track. Runner KVD has proven their mastery of on the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Kart, beating t🍒heir own record consistently throughout 2006.

KVD first took the record on January 3 of that year, unseating previous recordholder OliverSG by 0.01 seconds. On September 20, KVD shaved off another hundredth of a second, then another laterꦗ the same day. Th🌱ey closed out the year with another victory, posting a time of 0'11"65 on December 29.

That last record would go on to stand until February 2019, when it was broken by - you guessed it - KVD. They took another 0.02 seconds off of their time, which remains the world record for a single lap of Ghost Valley 1 to this day. It's entirely possible that the current record could beat ✱its predecessor's duration; as it stands, it's a little over halfway there.

5 Goldeneye 007 (Runway Agent) By Brian B. 🐷

N64, 0:22

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:GoldenEye 007 has some of the most hardcore speedrunners in the world, practicing and grinding for years to shave a single second off of each meticulously-optimized level. Runway is among the fastest of the game's maps,ꩲ with the best runners able to complete it in leꦫss than half a minute even on the game's brutal 00 Agent difficulty.

Runner Bryan B. held the record for Runway on Agent, the game's basic difficulty, for nearly 16 years. Beating his time by even a second would require not only flawless execution, but a heavy amount of luck; the trick is using precisely-thrown grenades to boost yourself along the path to the objective. The fact that the record was often tied, but never broken until Eric Bergmann's 2020 run speak𓃲s to h⛄ow hard the (until-then theoretical) trick was to pull off.

4 Perfect Dark (WA🐻R⛦! Agent) By Karl Jobst

N64, 00:25

The GoldenEye community has a lot of crossover with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Perfect Dark community, and it's easy to see why; the two Rare-produced shooters from the N64 era are true sister titles, and skills from one translate easily to the other. Like the Runway Agent category above, Perfect Dark's WAR! level was highly optimized, with

Jobst's time of 25 seconds was eventually overtaken by runner Perfect Ace, who managed 24 in 2020. That's exciting in and of itself, but perhaps the real records to watch in Perfect Dark's Agent difficulty are Chicago and dataDyne Central; both have unbeaten records, set in 2011 by True Faith and 2010 by Illu, respectively, and both have crossed the five-thousand day threshold. Both have the potential overtake WAR! as the longest-standing꧅ records in the Perfect Dar﷽k speedrunning community in the next few years, if they remain unbeaten.

3 𒊎 Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence (Joachim 100%) By Dragondarch

PS2, 1:22:15

Lament Of Innocence is one of a handful of 3D 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Castlevania titles. While they were eclipsed in popularity by the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metroidvania-style games that the series popularized, and speedrunners 🌃tend to flock to those games, ther♊e have been a few players who have taken a shot at them over the years.

Not only was Dragondarch the first player to all the way back in 2005, they also have never had their time beaten. Around 2020, a handful of players submitted 100% runs of Lament Of Innocence; tinkerknight posted times with all characters, and even beat Dragondarch's time with the main protagonist Leon Belmont, eventually being overtaken themselves in that category by Casj1357 and TimiTobi, but Dragondarch's Joachim run remains undefeated to this day, with both tinkern🎐ight and Casj1357 well behind.

2 Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolut꧂ion Of Eternity (Night🦹mare 100%) By TimDoherty

PC, 57:14

Early first-person shooters (or "boomer shooters" if you're nasty) had some of the most active speedrunning communities of the '90s, so it's no surprise to see some long-standing records for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Quake. Runner set full-game records in the 100% category on both Easy and Nightmare difficulties, which still have yet to be broken. While the Easy run came first, no video of it exists; the Nightmare run, which ♏came a few months later, is arguably ♓more impressive anyway.

TimDoherty also held an Easy Any% record until November 2016, and his original time has now been almost halved with a 16:46 set by Clouder in December 2024.

1 🥂 Doom 2 (Entryway, Any%) By Thomas "Panter&quo๊t; Pilger

PC, 00:05

This record is so old it's still listed on , which was how runners originally gathered to post their best Doom times. Thomas Pilger's hyper-efficient tear through the first stage of Doom 2 stood for so long that it was considered to be unbeatable. Between perfect꧙ inputs and hoping the stage's enemies behave themselves, even tying the record is a blend of skill and luck.

Of course, the legendary status of Pilger's run made it all the more incredible when runner . Managing the level in 4 seconds by the in-game clock was a shocking cause for celebration in the speedrunning community😼, where each barrier broken represents the culmination of countless hours of practics and collaboration.