Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago

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I don't know where to start...

I picked this category as a way to improve at the game, and be better in my online games, including Lounge. I lowkey wanted to get a World Record - the thing is, I didn't expect this to take me multiple days of essentially only grinding this category, to the point I reduced my playtime on every other aspect of the game.
This is a pretty difficult category. It both requires skills and good RNG, you could just practice certain shortcuts and just pull them all the time, then get a very good run dying tobeing chained by a shock, into red shells and then a blue shell, it was one of the biggest mental challenges I've had in a game in such a short time span.

Honestly, I don't think I was lucky at all during that grind, I mostly spent my time figuring out what character/kart would fit the best for me, while also pulling the 'unlucky' card when I would not have a good run. But now that I got a run with nearly no blue shells, and very few shocks; what can I say?

This run helped the most to just notice how many flaws I have as a player, especially if you look at my Acorn Heights run, where I got the luck I was asking for, but lost nearly 15 seconds to me being not good enough to get a flawless run. Other tracks reflect that pretty well too, but are less technical, therefore not really noticeable to the average Mario Kart player.

The nerves I was feeling in the second half were insane : I knew my run was huge, and that it could actually go in the 1:20 territory - which, as you can see, did not happen. I can't stop thinking about how much hope this gives me for this category in the long term, and I definitely want to be part of that community grind. But for now, I'll just appreciate how far I've come one month in, with most of my Mario Kart experience left in 2017.
It is all clear, I've pretty maxed my potential so far. Although I can 1:20 and honestly even 1:19 if I push a little more, it is probably not the smartest move to do right now. I'd like to get a little better at the game for now, then come back once I've learned most of the NISCs in this game, as well as some of the feather shortcuts in the game, which will definitely take a while.

Thinking this was going to be my last run of the day, I did not imagine this outcome, as most of my runs would die to some horrible RNG later on, but most of my timeloss is my own fault. So I'm glad this run was not only my first Mario Kart Speedrun World Record, but also the best way to teach me how to improve at the game. I'm grateful for that.

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