This speedrunner is the third person in the world to have finished Super Mario Bros. this quickly

gamesradar.com:

"A speedrunner has become the third person in the world to have completed Super Mario Bros. in less than 4 minutes and 55 seconds.

Getting to the third room of 8-4 in 4:54.948 means Nebula_Composer - who has their eye on the world record - played a "perfect water section" and got past a Bowser pattern in time, but entered the water second four frames - just four! - behind the world record, a delay he just couldn't catch. 

Here is the personal best run in all its four-minute-54-second glory:

"Nebula_Composer got 4:54.948, which is the fifth 4:54 ever played and makes him the third person ever to get below the 4:55 second barrier!" explains the Reddit post (opens in new tab) commemorating the speedrun (thanks, TheGamer (opens in new tab)). "This run ties the current Any% WR to the third room of 8-4, but a slight inaccuracy in Nebula's fast accel inputs caused him to lose a handful of frames, entering the water section 4 frames behind the world record. He then played a perfect water section and got past a Bowser pattern that required jumping within a window of 5 frames to survive."

Knowing where he went wrong, though, means Nebular still has a shot at securing the world record. Speedrunners Niftski and Miniland currently hold the first and second world records respectively.

"If I had told myself back in February of 2020, when I first started speedrunning this game, that I was gonna get a 4:54 in SMB1, I would've told myself that I was crazy," Nebular himself said in the video description. "Well, nearly 2 and a half years later, here we are. After nearly six months of grinding, I have finally broken the final second barrier for Any%! I have everyone to thank in the SMB1 community for never giving up on me and always keeping