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LAND SPEED RECORD

What is your speedrun history with Super Mario Land?

In June of 2020 I took the speedrunning world by surprise by going from no experience with to having the record by the end of July. This opened the possibility of me being games. I wanted to be the first person to have the main and ‘any%’ world records since Mugg back in 2013. The record holder at the time was EiP, who is currently in second place. Many of the strategies I learned were from EiP and former record holder Callumbal. When I started on the first game I was unable to grasp the physics. I was definitely not the fastest and it took me some time to get good.

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