The third ever any% sub-hour run, the first by a non-god. 3rd place. I worked so hard for this. There it is. Now I have truly played the best Peggle of my life.

This was a flawless run. So was my 1:02:59 which got me 4th place 2 months ago. I managed to cut that down by almost 4 minutes... Insane. I actually had multiple runs at sub-hour pace during this long grind but most fell apart on Zen Frog (10-5) so it is incredibly poetic that my single gold split on this run was 10-5. That's beautiful.

I’ll now ease off on speedruning Peggle. I’ve achieved more than enough amazing things. I’ll now put more emphasis on fun, as grinding is so very exhausting and tough for my flawed, weak mental health. I got better at handling it all but I think it’s time to slow down.

Since it'd be a VERY long time before I were to improve this (if I ever do..), I'll get a bit soppy. Thank you to:

Pnaha and SatanHerself for your amazing strats. brassbeat for the insane discovery of the text box skip. PoetryStud for his amazing strats, making a bunch of levels much more bearable, and for fighting me in our Peggle war, something that reminded me how fun speedrunning could be when I was getting really worn out and upset with it all. HeliosWx for being one of the first people in the community to notice me and helping me a load when I was first starting. GrowTM, the predecessor South-East Asian top runner who passed the torch to me for me to carry it here. I may have British as my nationality but this is also a win for SEAs and Asians in general! anyGeorge for hanging around my Peggle streams and giving some pointers. OzvenomDnD for hosting such fun, well-organised events and for pushing the community by breaking the sub-1:10 gates for us to all come through, then pushing me and Poetry back from top 5 to fuel this happening. And DougDoug for introducing so many of us to this very fun speedrun and special community.

I love this community very much. <3