How many minutes is the Super Mario Bros speedrun world record?

Gaming hard Data from 2024

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Answer in minutes. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

5 minutes

Roughly 4.9.

The any% world record sits around 4 minutes 54 seconds — a game that took most players weeks to finish in 1985. The record has improved by fractions of a second for years and is believed to be within a hair of the theoretical limit.

Where this number comes from

Source Speedrun.com verified leaderboard
Figure refers to 2024
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Unit minutes

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