Super Mario Bros. speedrunner sets seemingly impossible world record

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Speedrunner Darbian has done what was once though impossible, completing an entire run of the original Super Mario Bros. in four minutes, 56 seconds and 878 milliseconds.
Prior to this, the record was four minutes, 57 seconds and 194 milliseconds, a time set by speedrunner kosmicd12 only four days ago.
Darbian noted that their sub 4.57 run was "a time that was considered nearly impossible just a few weeks ago." Indeed, we're talking about a difference of 316 milliseconds here. Watching kosmicd12's run looks seemingly perfect, until Darbian came along and performed an excursion even more refined, somehow.
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