Super Mario Bros.(1985)

World Record Progression

Updated 10 months ago by Saradoc

Any%

The Twin Galaxies and Peercast histories are given as far as they are relevant to the speedrun.com record progression. The time under this site's ruleset is in brackets.

NTSC

Ancient Runs Outside Leaderboards

Several emulator movies were uploaded to High Level Challenge:

9:51 by カシオン (Casion) on April 6 1999
6:11 by Xoxさん on May 7 1999
5:17 by わいわいさん on August 11 1999

Several emulator movies were uploaded to Zophars Domain:

7:45 (7:41) by deputy-headless on May 9 1999
7:10 (7:09) by Quasifrog on June 26 1999
7:00 (6:55) by DarkMazda on July 15 1999
6:30 (6:26) by gz on October 1 2000

Jeff Ninneman and Jason Harmer had a recorded Super Mario Bros. race in front of a crowd in 2002. (Article, Video)

Both had times of 5:50 (5:53 from pressing Start), though Jason Harmer (on the right) was a bit faster.

The article mentions Jeff Ninneman having finished with 5:11 and Jason Harmer having finished with 5:09. These may refer to their personal best times at the time of the race or at the time of article (February 26 2006).

Jason Harmer has a 5:09 video uploaded on October 12 2012 that may be the run referred to in the article.

Twin Galaxies

Glitches are banned. Twin Galaxies was the primary leaderboard outside Japan until SDA got more popular and then speedrun.com got more popular.

5:28 by Aaron Collins on June 25 2002
5:27 by Mike Morrow in July 2002
5:20 by Cam Allen on July 30 2003

TG changed timing rules to start from pressing Start.

5:17 (5:14) by Scott Kessler on February 18 2004
5:14 (5:11) by Scott Kessler on February 26 2004
5:13 (5:10) by Scott Kessler on April 23 2004
5:10 (5:07) by Trevor Seguin on October 9 2004
5:09 (5:06) by Trevor Seguin on November 7 2004
5:08 (5:05.846) by Andrew Gardikis on March 24 2006 (Initially retimed to 5:09 by TG)
5:08 (5:05.397) by Scott Kessler on September 14 2006

Peercast

Time starts at pressing Start, ends on the last line of Peach's finishing speech and gets rounded down to full seconds. Turbo is allowed.

5:30 (~5:16-5:18) by らむだ (lambda) on July 9 2006 unknown during this time
5:16 (~5:02) by らむだ (lambda) on August 27 2007
5:15 (~5:01) by まるこめ (marukome) in 2007 or 2008
5:14 (5:00.233) by まるこめ (marukome) on July 31 2008
5:13 (~4:59) by 蛍火 (Hotarubi) on July 13 2011

SDA/speedrun.com

SDA had the same rules besides times being rounded down to full seconds, but sub-second improvements until speedrun.com got more popular are still known. Adding in Twin Galaxies times is no problem, since their ruleset is strictly slower and videos exist at least for the faster times. Runs by Peercast rules are more tricky to add into the general record progression as usage of Turbo would invalidate them and there are often no videos to time them precisely.

5:00.355 by andrewg on April 10 2007
4:59.690 by andrewg on December 24 2010
4:58.874 by andrewg on December 15 2011
4:58.791 by andrewg on January 15 2013
4:58.575 by andrewg on January 19 2013
4:58.525 by andrewg on March 21 2013
4:58.359 by andrewg on May 19 2013
4:58.159 by andrewg on July 1 2013
4:58.142 by andrewg on October 7 2013
4:58.092 by andrewg on March 25 2014
4:57.693 by i_o_l on June 25 2014
4:57.627 by darbian on October 18 2015
4:57.427 by darbian on January 14 2016
4:57.260 by darbian on April 14 2016
4:57.244 by darbian on August 11 2016
4:57.194 by Kosmic on October 4 2016
4:56.878 by darbian on October 6 2016
4:56.528 by darbian on October 20 2017
4:56.462 by Kosmic on February 16 2018
4:56.245 by somewes on May 25 2018
4:55.913 by Kosmic on September 25 2018
4:55.796 by somewes on October 22 2018
4:55.746 by tavenwebb2002 on August 2 2019
4:55.646 by Kosmic on January 17 2020
4:55.430 by Niftski on November 13 2020
4:55.314 by Miniland on January 2 2021
4:55.230 by Miniland on February 4 2021
4:54.948 by Niftski on April 7 2021
4:54.914 by Miniland on November 5 2021
4:54.881 by Niftski on December 2 2021
4:54.798 by Niftski on August 7 2022
4:54.631 by Niftski on September 6 2023

PAL

Twin Galaxies

Glitches are banned. Twin Galaxies was the primary leaderboard outside Japan until SDA got more popular and then speedrun.com got more popular. PAL has always been a separate category.

6:38 by Kristian Farnan on July 31 2009
6:37 by Wouter Lugtenaar on May 30 2010
5:48 by John Nurminen on July 22 2011

The leaderboard also lists a 5:09 by Ribeiro Casaleiro Aurelio on Feburary 16 2012. This is almost surely an error or an NTSC run.

speedrun.com

PAL was made a separate category on speedrun.com on May 12 2022. The record progression from before that point is reconstructed.

5:33 by Miqoou on March 24 2012
5:25 by Miqoou on March 25 2012
5:24 by Miqoou on April 7 2012
5:17 by Miqoou on Feburary 10 2013
5:16 by turtleml on ?
5:14.5 by Miqoou on Feburary 17 2013
5:14.1 by Miqoou on July 2 2013
5:11.5 by Miqoou on July 9 2013 Miqoou also claims a 5:10 without a video.
5:11.1 by JoshKeys on February 1 2019
5:10 by JoshKeys on March 19 2019
5:07.957 by JoshKeys on April 12 2020
5:07.797 by Sluggy on May 12 2022
5:06.817 by Miniland on May 15 2022
5:06.477 by Miniland on May 18 2022
5:06.157 by Miniland on May 21 2022
5:05.477 by Miniland on May 23 2022

Warpless

The Twin Galaxies and Peercast histories are given as far as they are relevant to the speedrun.com record progression. The time under this site's ruleset is in brackets.

NTSC

Ancient Runs Outside Leaderboards

A Nesticle movie file titled "Tour de SMB" was uploaded to The Mushroom Kingdom: 24:07 by WhooHooDoh on May 27 1999

Twin Galaxies

Time starts at pressing Start, ends on hitting the axe and gets rounded down to full seconds. Glitches and the pipe in 1-1 are banned. Twin Galaxies was the primary leaderboard outside Japan until SDA got more popular and then speedrun.com got more popular.

22:42 (~22:39) by Cam Allen
21:33 (~21:30) by Cam Allen on August 6 2004
~21:21 (21:18) by andrewg on August 27 2005 (The original Twin Galaxies time is unknown.)
20:02 (19:57) by andrewg on February 16 2007 (The time on Twin Galaxies seems to be mistimed by 1 or 2 seconds.)

Peercast

Time starts at pressing Start, ends on the last line of Peach's finishing speech and gets rounded down to full seconds. Turbo is allowed.

28:44 (~28:30-28:32) by 核 (kaku) on April 4 2006 unknown during this time
20:42 (~20:28-20:30) by 大阪 (osaka) on January 27 2007 unknown during this time
20:20 (~20:06-20:08) by まるこめ (marukome) in 2007
20:00 (~19:46-19:48) by まるこめ (marukome) on March 31 2008
19:51 (~19:37-19:39) by もぐもぐ (mogumogu) on April 13 2008
19:40 (~19:26-19:28) by ロイヤルボーイ (RoyalBoy) on April 29 2008
19:36 (~19:22-19:24) by ヒダリー (hidary) on March 31 2010
19:34 (19:21) by ヒダリー (hidary) on April 10 2010
19:29 (~19:15-19:17) by 蛍火 (Hotarubi) on January 13 2013

SDA/speedrun.com

19:40 by andrewg on March 12 2008
19:34 by Kosmic on November 28 2012
19:24 by 蛍火 (Hotarubi) on January 20 2013
19:20 by andrewg on April 6 2013
19:19 by andrewg on April 22 2013
19:17 by andrewg on June 22 2013
19:16 by andrewg on June 26 2013
19:15 by andrewg on August 24 2013
19:12.33 by andrewg on November 11 2013
19:12.20 by i_o_l on April 24 2015
19:11.520 by i_o_l on June 6 2015
19:11.240 by i_o_l on June 8 2015
19:10.388 by i_o_l on June 23 2015
19:09.839 by i_o_l on July 9 2015
19:06.994 by i_o_l on December 18 2015
19:06.246 by i_o_l on February 9 2016
19:05.896 by i_o_l on February 15 2016
19:04.38 by darbian on November 16 2016
19:03.86 by andrewg on June 30 2017
19:02.369 by Kosmic on January 29 2018
19:02.036 by GTAce on May 2 2019
19:01.487 by Kosmic on May 30 2019
19:00.655 by Kosmic on June 4 2019
19:00.555 by Kosmic on July 30 2019
18:59.806 by Kosmic on August 14 2019
18:59.390 by GTAce on July 7 2020
18:59.024 by GTAce on August 18 2020
18:58.924 by JeremyMKW on March 21 2021
18:58.658 by Niftski on April 12 2021
18:57.926 by GTAce on April 13 2021
18:57.610 by Niftski on September 1 2021
18:56.911 by Niftski on September 6 2021
18:56.794 by Niftski on May 17 2022
18:55.929 by Niftski on May 18 2022
18:54.864 by Niftski on July 17 2023

PAL

PAL was made a separate category on speedrun.com on May 12 2022. The record progression from before that point is reconstructed.

22:52 by Freddy Andersson on September 5 2005
21:52 by Miqoou on April 21 2013
21:32 by Miqoou on May 1 2013
21:28 by Miqoou on October 27 2013
21:22 by Miqoou on November 11 2013
21:14 by Miqoou on November 24 2013
21:03 by Miqoou on April 11 2014
20:50 by JoshKeys on October 26 2017
20:39 by Sluggy on August 4 2022
20:36 by Sluggy on December 22 2022
20:28 by Aryll on December 27 2022

Any% All-Stars

The early history of this category is pretty unknown.

5:05 by andrewg on February 27 2014
5:04.813 by i_o_l on April 14 2016
5:03.766 by RodrigoAndrade7 on April 25 2016
5:03.52 by darbian on November 19 2016
5:03.317 by i_o_l on November 24 2016
5:02.89 by darbian on November 27 2016
5:01.701 by andrewg on July 15 2017
5:01.354 by Kosmic on April 6 2018
5:00.655 by Kosmic on April 18 2018
5:00.322 by Kosmic on April 19 2018
4:59.873 by Kosmic on April 23 2018
4:59.523 by Lul_ecks_dee on October 14 2019
4:59.374 by JeremyMKW on March 26 2020
4:58.492 by Miniland on April 18 2020
4:58.409 by GTAce on April 28 2020
4:57.893 by Nolmy on July 5 2020
4:57.627 by eddiecatgaming on August 25 2020
4:57.294 by eddiecatgaming on August 30 2020
4:56.928 by Nolmy on November 14 2021
4:56.828 by Niftski on January 4 2022
4:56.778 by Miniland on January 23 2022
4:56.645 by Nolmy on August 12 2022
4:56.312 by Niftski on May 21 2023
4:55.780 by Niftski on May 28 2023

Warpless All-Stars

The early history of this category is pretty unknown.

20:09 by LK on August 14 2014
20:07 by i_o_l on April 25 2016
19:59.55 by darbian on November 24 2016
19:58.809 by goofychocobo on March 23 2018
19:55.864 by Kosmic on May 21 2018
19:53.601 by GTAce on November 25 2019
19:52.569 by GTAce on March 9 2020
19:51.271 by GTAce on April 10 2020
19:51.255 by eddiecatgaming on April 13 2020
19:50.456 by GTAce on April 14 2020
19:49.840 by GTAce on April 15 2020
19:49.291 by GTAce on April 21 2020
19:48.825 by GTAce on May 11 2020
19:47.993 by GTAce on February 23 2021
19:45.697 by Niftski on June 7 2023
19:45.548 by GTAce on August 1 2023
19:44.998 by GTAce on August 4 2023
19:44.865 by eddiecatgaming on August 8 2023
19:44.383 by GTAce on August 19 2023
19:43.634 by eddiecatgaming on August 21 2023
19:42.885 by Niftski on October 2 2023

Minus World Ending

The early history of this category is pretty unknown.

2:45 by owatax on September 9 2013
2:42 by owatax on September 10 2013
2:37.05 by i_o_l on October 21 2013
2:35.99 by i_o_l on October 30 2013
2:35.27 by i_o_l on May 4 2015
2:35.25 by darbian on November 30 2016
2:34.805 by andrewg on April 9 2017
2:34.329 by Marikh on August 20 2017
2:33.733 by SoloQ on October 7 2017
2:33.564 by Kosmic on February 24 2018
2:33.248 by Kosmic on February 27 2018
2:33.181 by Marikh on March 28 2018
2:33.065 by Kosmic on August 20 2018
2:32.832 by Kosmic on August 21 2018
2:32.482 by somewes on October 23 2018
2:32.332 by somewes on November 26 2018
2:31.983 by somewes on December 4 2018
2:31.966 by GTAce on February 3 2020
2:31.800 by Niftski on February 11 2020
2:31.733 by Niftski on June 28 2020
2:31.650 by Niftski on October 13 2020
2:31.434 by Niftski on January 3 2021
2:30.802 by Niftski on May 26 2021
2:30.402 by Niftski on March 1 2022
2:30.319 by Niftski on March 1 2022
2:30.219 by Niftski on May 15 2023

Glitchless

Refer to the Any% section for the early history. Besides the 6:11 by Xoxさん, which used a walljump, all runs up to the 5:05.397 by Scott Kessler were glitchless.

5:04.349 by andrewG on December 11 2011
5:04.099 by Kosmic on December 4 2017
5:03.716 by Kosmic on October 2 2018
5:03.683 by somewes on December 23 2018
5:03.650 by GTAce on December 26 2018
5:03.617 by Kosmic on December 27 2018
5:03.517 by GTAce on March 1 2019
5:03.434 by GTAce on April 9 2019
5:03.367 by GTAce on December 11 2019
5:03.284 by GTAce on January 16 2020
5:03.234 by jscarbo on January 9 2021
5:03.201 by Niftski on January 15 2021
5:03.151 by GTAce on January 17 2021
5:03.134 by GTAce on April 27 2021
5:03.051 by GTAce on April 28 2021
5:03.018 by GTAce on July 19 2021
5:02.984 by GTAce on August 30 2021
5:02.785 by Niftski on January 25 2022
5:02.685 by Niftski on January 29 2024

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