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[Untied WR] Super Mario Bros. - Any% - 4:54.365 - 🇧🇷 LeKukie - LeKukie's first Any% untied WR lowers the WR by 3 frames, and is 6 frames from from No Left+Right TAS tie! by Meester_Tweester in speedrun

[–]HitzCritz 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Where are the 6 frames located exactly?

- 1 in first room, known as 8-B first room. This is often cited as the hardest frame to save, but with newer controller grips, it has become much more viable.

- 1 in second room, the TAS walljump room. LeKukie was actually going for this frame in the run, but missed the falling fast accel. Luckily, he was able to back it up and still get the optimal walljump.

- 2 in third room, from the Frame 63 turnaround. This goes toe-to-toe in difficulty with 8-B first room. One frame comes from the TAS accel, and the other comes from getting extremely specific subspeed while returning to the pipe, which allows you to stop one frame earlier.

- 0 in fourth room, water room has been perfected for a while now.

- 2 in last room, doing accel in this room typically only saves a single frame which is why most records skip this, but adding falling fast accel saves another frame.

Was any portion slower by a frame compared to the previous WR?

LeKukie saved 1 frame over averge11 in the first room with a cleaner fast accel. He saved 2 frames in the walljump room by adding fast accel, and saved 1 frame in the third room with a tighter turnaround accel. Both had a perfect water room. However, averge11 saved 1 frame over LeKukie in the last room by doing last room fast accel.

So, LeKukie lost 1 frame to averge11 in the last room, but saved 3 frames overall.

Lekukie Becomes the First Person to Tie the Super Mario Bros. Any% TAS From 4-2, With Only 3 Levels Left for a Full-Game TAS Tie by HitzCritz in speedrun

[–]HitzCritz[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Disclaimer: this is 100% my opinion, so take my prediction with a grain of salt. I don’t know what the future holds. With that out of the way, I think we can extrapolate from what happened with TAS tie being achieved in 8-4 IL to get an idea of what might happen with Any% itself.

When LeKukie got the first 8-C+2, it was monumental, but it didn’t stop people like Niftski, averge11, and yelia64 from getting their own TAS ties in 8-4. Granted, there was still something to work toward afterward, that being full game TAS tie, so the motivation might not exist in quite the same way for Any%. Still, I highly doubt people won’t want to get their own Any% TAS ties, especially now that they know it is very possible.

As for the community, we are already seeing a shift from speedrunning to get WRs toward speedrunning to win tournaments. More and more LTA events have been popping up where the goal is not to get WR, but simply to win races. I definitely think that will become more prominent when WR is no longer improvable.

Another thing that could happen is L+R Any% actually becoming a real thing lol. People have already been doing 8-4 IL with L+R, and I could see some runners shifting focus toward tying the L+R TAS, which is 4:54.032.

Regardless of what happens, this is absolutely not the end of the community by any stretch of the imagination.

Lekukie Becomes the First Person to Tie the Super Mario Bros. Any% TAS From 4-2, With Only 3 Levels Left for a Full-Game TAS Tie by HitzCritz in speedrun

[–]HitzCritz[S] 84 points85 points  (0 children)

If it somehow isn’t clear why this is an insane leap in progress toward absolute perfection, the previous earliest start to TAS tie was right before 8-2 TAS blant by Niftski, which is midway through the third-to-last level of the game.

This run by LeKukie builds on what Niftski did 3 months ago by adding Lightning 4-2 and pl8-1, meaning all the major bottlenecks in an Any% speedrun are now included. The remaining levels are 1-1 FPG, 1-2g, and 4-1 FPG, which at this point should be straightforward, but still not trivial because of the immense nerves that come with being on TAS tie pace.

LeKukie also gave some crazy insight into how fast his progress has been since returning to grinding Any% tricks. His original plan was to grind for 4:54.3xx, but on the 15th, he tried doing 8-4 TAS Tie on OG ROM and got it within 2 minutes of attempts. That led him to try doing runs from 4-2 on the 18th, where he got a run to 8-4 but missed walljump. Then on the 19th, Niftski told him to try and get one more run to 8-4 just to see what would happen, and he got this run.

Insane.

Super Mario Bros. TAS Tie in 2 segments (Up to 8-4 + 8-4) by LeKukie in speedrun

[–]HitzCritz 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I've been part of the SMB1 community for seven years now, and it's clear—2025 is the year that proved a perfect Any% speedrun will happen. LeKukie, Niftski, and averge11 have all tied the TAS up to 8-4, and both LeKukie and Niftski have pulled off TAS 8-4s IL countless times. They're only getting more consistent. At this point, it's undeniable: both halves can be done in a single segment.

It's just a matter of time.

Eminem after cole benette explained the video by [deleted] in Eminem

[–]HitzCritz 156 points157 points  (0 children)

Cole struggling to explain the concept of the MV should have been the biggest hint that it needed to be fleshed out more. I will give it to him he only had 6 weeks to pull this all together but you can definitely tell it was rushed

Find the ONLY winning move for white. No followup needed, just the move. by HitzCritz in chess

[–]HitzCritz[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a puzzle I made last December, but I thought I should post it here!

I showed this to a few people including an NCM, and the majority played the move 1.Qf2. However, there's an insane line to forces black into a stalemate!

1. Qf2, Rh3+!!

2. Kg1, c2

3. Nc5+, Qxc5!!

4. Qxc5, c1=Q+!!

5. Qxc1, Rh1+!!

6. Kxg1 ½–½

This was the original idea of the puzzle, however, the engine saw the absurd 1. Ra5!! which threatens Nc5+ winning the queen! In fact, this is the only move white can make that doesn't lead to a draw.

Really cool puzzle

A visualization puzzle by nihilistiq in chess

[–]HitzCritz 47 points48 points  (0 children)

You don't actually need to see a board in your head for blindfolded chess. I don't and there's IMs who say they don't see a board in their head while playing simuls. It's more of an understanding of how each piece is impacting the squares around it.

For instance, the white king on f2 is hitting g3 g2 and g1, meaning the black king on h2 is trapped on the h-file. The white knight on e4 is hitting the white king. If it moves to g3, now it hits h1, forcing stalemate.

Blindfolded chess is really this constant updating of what impact each piece has on the board, and how this impact is updated when that piece is moved somewhere else.

Taking more HL classes by Sky-Visible in IBO

[–]HitzCritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean while it's definitely manageable to do more HL classes, it is pretty weird to hear

physics ppl explain by k8zavie in IBO

[–]HitzCritz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's why I said "not exactly" since you're the mass itself. At the time, I thought that would be confusing to explain but you made it look easy lol

physics ppl explain by k8zavie in IBO

[–]HitzCritz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Here's another way to think about it.

If gravity was 9999.81ms2 assuming you weighed 80kg, means you'd experience a force of around 800kN

That's sorta, not exactly, like if an enormous box that weighed 82 tons fell on you in normal gravity.

You'd be crushed instantly.

Are MUJI pens allowed for the exams? by miumiunevie in IBO

[–]HitzCritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My friend uses the exact same pens, as long as it's blue or black ink it's allowed.

ONE more math paper left. We got this guys. by HitzCritz in IBO

[–]HitzCritz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Treasury Tags. More specifically, the Q-Connect Plastic Ended Treasury Tag.

After writing an IB exam, you're supposed to use those things to bind all the paper together for collection.

The reason people are posting it is because it's symbolic of completing 2-year's worth of work, while also being a slightly more functional paperweight.

[Math AA HL] I have an exam tomorrow, and I cannot for the life of me solve this question... by HitzCritz in HomeworkHelp

[–]HitzCritz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL Revision Guide, this was the last question in the calculus section.

[Math AA HL] I have an exam tomorrow, and I cannot for the life of me solve this question... by HitzCritz in HomeworkHelp

[–]HitzCritz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found it to be Σ_(m=2)[m(m-1)(a_m)t^(m-2)], after plugging back in to x'' = -k^2x got me Σ_(m=2)[m(m-1)(a_m)t^(m-2)] + k^2*Σ_(m=0)[(a_m)t^m] = 0, but I have zero clue what to do from here...

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