The Rainbow Road master is back with a new record in Mario Kart World – Polygon

If anyone can lay claim to the most iconic track in Nintendo’s jubilant kart racer, it’s probably Twitch streamer Technical. The 22-year-old holds the distinction of having the fastest possible run time in Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road, both for original version and the Deluxe re-release on Switch. Naturally, the speed demon has been grinding away on the prismatic track since the release of Mario Kart World , and after nearly a hundred hours of Rainbow Road loops he’s hit a record way faster than anyone anticipated. That Rainbow Road would be different than other iterations of the track was a given from the get go. Beyond being the most majestic interpretation of the multi-colored circuit, it’s also one of the longest since Mario Kart 64. One lap on its own takes most of us a minute or more, and there are four of them in a time trial. Onlookers guessed that finishing the course in under four minutes was entirely feasible — but it would likely take months if not a year to whittle it down that much. The sub-4-minute hype was immediate among those who follow Mario Kart speedruns, and the competition has been fierce. In about a
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