A few weeks ago, Nintendo started hosting speedrun competitions called "Ninji Speedruns".
During these, players from around the world have one week to compete for the fastest time possible on a Mario level that Nintendo makes.
On the most recent competition, I was able to finish rank #1 out of 300,000 competitors.
So I thought I'd explain how I was able to get my time so low.
At the start of the level, I pick up this Master Sword power-up
to turn into "Link" from "The Legend of Zelda" series.
And here, I throw two 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, to break the blocks ahead of me.
Normally, a player would take the top route and wait for the spike ball to break the blocks,
but instead of doing that, I pull out a boomer, jump into the water, and juggle it with my sword to blow up these top blocks.
Timing this was one of the hardest parts of the level, since I would often try to go too fast and take damage.
Since Link's sword hits enemies above and below him, I could precisely time two slashes to kill all four Piranha Plants,
which is faster than simply doing a down thrust to get through them.
Right as I exit the pipe,
I shoot two arrows at these Piranha Plants so I can pull out this blueberry as soon as possible.
I can then do some tight jumps so that, when the blueberry explodes, I can go through the path I made immediately.
For this last part, I have to pull out my bow as soon as possible to shoot an arrow at these on/off switches.
Then, I time my jump to get through the blocks whereas they'd disappear and reach the goal.
If you've seen my previous videos
you know that whenever I achieve something like winning a competition, I celebrate by putting the prize on my wall.
You might be wondering what the prize was for getting rank #1 on the Ninji Speedrun,
but unfortunately Nintendo doesn't give out anything special for first place.
But at the very least, I was able to make a YouTube video about getting first place, so I put this video on my wall.
[SLAP]
[SLAP]
[SLAP, SLAP SLAP SLAP]
Oh, yesss!
That's gotta be it, give me that rank 1.
WHAT?!
