I just did a TAS and which was 21.763 without L+R sry if i'm outdated I didn't bother to read all the forum posts

i don't understand why this isn't a real category on the leaderboard yet tbh

1. The best place to grab the powerups are at the beginning of 1-1, and beginning of 1-2. This will save time over the route you did.
2. At 1:46, you tried to jump off the lip of the pipe. It's possible and easier to just jump over the plant, and not losing powerups will save a lot of time. At 5:00, you can also jump over that plant.
3. In 8-1, you grabbed the star at 3:27. It's faster to just not grab the star, and either wait for the plants to go down, or just shoot them with fireballs. But if you're more comfortable with the star, you can keep getting it for now.
4. On a few occasions, you waited for enemies or were careful with them, even though you had fire. At 5:10, you could have shot that plant, and you wouldn't have lost the powerup. I'd recommend getting familiar with fire, as it would greatly help you with this game.

Good job with this run though, and good luck with improving. P.S. Next time if you can, angle the camera so that the whole game can be seen. There are some places like at 2:53 when we can't see mario.

Flagpole glitch is hard. It's extremely precise, and doing just one input one frame off can screw everything up. Getting it 0 times is normal.

multiple people have done this

that was poorly worded

if they have -3.27 on livesplit, and they reset and start livesplit at the same time, then spam the start button, it will be very closely synced.

is frame 0 considered the reset

@B1GEY3DPYTHON I think "getting lucky" means getting good judges. But like 8-1, good judges can be forced (I was told). I didn't try to reach the top of the flagpole because I thought I forced good judges by hitting the mushroom block, but apparently I didn't.

I was told that hitting the 4-1 powerup would give you good judges every time. If you get good judges, it doesn't matter where you land on the flagpole. I forced good judges, landed at the bottom, and didn't save the framerule?

4:53 is possible. 4:53 will be done.

4:54 will never be done by a human. 4:53 isn't possible.

Everyone who's said one of those, I've tried correcting it into:

4:53 might be possible. 4:53 might be done.

4:54 will probably never be done by a human. There's a 99.99% chance that 4:53 isn't possible.

But they were too stubborn, and stuck with their original statement. But if you guys are so sure about that, then give absolute proof of it. Exactly, it can't be absolutely proven. I don't think people should make such definitive statements if they can't absolutely prove it.

@Sewiferos are you sure about that There is a solid limit on how fast we can go. We may never be truly sure on what the limit is. 4:54 may be the limit, or it may not be. 4:53 may or may not be possible.

Yes. With good judges, every pipe jump is 1 frame harder than if there were bad judges, unless you do the strat that LeKukie showed in the video.

anyone know why this happens?

With Vertical Sync Off: Seems slightly off still though.

this seems like a fun meme, i'd do all collectibles

nice find

Vsync was on, so I turned it off. It still seems like it's 60 FPS. It is 60.0 most of the time, but it sometimes bounces between 60.5 and 59.5, which cancel each other out.