You'll never be this good at games
Feel inferior by watching 10 of the godliest gamers in action
Super Mario Brothers nailed in five minutes
You all know Mario, for sure, but you don't know it like this. At times, this high-speed run is almost balletic, the plumber leaping with exquisite timing through sections that frustrated us for hours.
Okay, he's used the warps, and okay it's a geriatric game. But we can't fail to be impressed by the sheer consistency of play, or feel humbled by the amount of time this gamer must have invested in smashing through this classic challenge.
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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of 12DOVE. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.

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