On October 21st, 2023 infamous speedrunner @Karin just achieved one of the most coveted minute barriers in speedrunning. A 1:36 in the game Super Mario 64 in the 120 Star category. The final time of this run in question is a [1:36:48](https://www.speedrun.com/sm64/runs/m738kdey) absolutely destroying the 1:36 barrier and beating his previous time of 1:37:33 by almost a full minute. 

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Something that helped this monumental run happen in the first place is a brand new strat called “[Carpetless](https://www.speedrun.com/news/wlvmxz81-the-holy-grail-of-sm64-carpetless).” Carpetless is a skip in the last level before the final Bowser fight known as Rainbow Ride. It puts a lot of pressure on the runner because it’s also the final star you collect in the level. Carpetless is a strat that skips the long carpet ride to get to the star on top of the castle.

With this strat along with the fact that Karin didn’t die in one of the final stages of this run - it all was put together in this monument of a run, Karin said “This is only the beginning” but with certainty, I can say that this is one of the best or **the** best Super Mario 64 runs of all time and that it will stand for a long time until Karin or and the brand new runner will beat it, it could be tomorrow, it could be in 10 years. Just as Karin and many runners before them have said “This is not the end this is only the just the beginning.”

Runner known as Karin achieved a 1:36:48 in SM64's 120 Star category. This was done with the help of the recently solved strat known as “Carpetless”

New Minute Barrier BROKEN in SM64 120 Star

we need more moroccan representation in red ball

bro i thought you stopped speedrunning rb1 mobile 

First speed run this is just okay I'm going to be trying then maybe be my own record

It took me awhile to finish the speed run the time is okay for my first speed run

yeah that's cool

another question i have is when i downloaded rb2 reverse not all of the levels were reversed like level 3 even though it's possible

@Sprong, he commented the same thing on my run and other 100% runs lmao

when you reset at the last checkpoint, it activates all the other checkpoints @Joelasm

what the hell is this layout, kinda sick ngl

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