So Nintendo held another Ninji Speedrun competition to see who could beat their Mario level the fastest after a week of it being released.
I was able to finish 2nd out of over 200,000 players and missed 1st place by just .012 seconds.
And to put that into perspective, that's about a tenth of the amount of time it takes to blink.
So since I was so close to getting the world record time, I thought I'd still try going for it.
So in this video I'll show how I was eventually able to get the fastest time.
At the start, I do a perfectly tight jump around this corner so I can fall into Yoshi as fast as possible
Then I jump and tongue backwards to boost Yoshi forward.
There's 25 Piranha Plants that have to be defeated,
so I precisely spit out a shell getting rid of all 4 of these piranha plants
and then I reuse the shell to defeat 2 more on the right while I line up this Dry Bones shot.
Then I slide down these slopes for speed until I have to tightly jump over this block.
This last section is the hardest and most precise part of the run
and how I was able to save the most time against the previous record.
I skid onto this falling block and perfectly time it so I run off of it as fast as possible.
Then I precisely turn around and narrowly avoid these blocks so I can ground pound down to the slope.
And after releasing the shell I've been holding on to I get rid of the rest of the Piranha Plants and finish the level,
beating the previous world record by .019 seconds.
Whenever I achieve something like getting the world record time on Nintendo's speedrun levels,
I celebrate by putting something on my wall that represents my achievement.
And since Yoshi was used throughout this level and we all know that Yoshi hatches from an egg,
I put an egg on my wall.
