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Gaming World Records

Test your knowledge on the fastest speedruns, massive esports prize pools, and the most extreme gaming achievements.

5 Questions
5 min Est. time
Intermediate Difficulty
60% Pass mark

About this quiz

For the vast majority of the global population, video games are simply a form of casual entertainment—a way to unwind after a long day or experience an interactive story. However, for a highly dedicated, obsessively driven subset of players, video games are not just toys; they are rigorous arenas for extreme human performance, pushing the absolute limits of mechanical skill, reaction time, and sheer endurance. The incredibly intense world of competitive gaming records is generally divided into two distinct primary disciplines. The first is 'Speedrunning', a community where players dedicate thousands of hours to analyzing a game's underlying code in order to exploit frame-perfect glitches, bypass intended mechanics, and reach the end credits as fast as mathematically possible. The second is the massive, highly corporatized world of professional 'Esports', where highly sponsored, globally recognized teams compete in sold-out stadiums for multi-million dollar prize pools, executing strategies with the precision of professional athletes. These disciplines produce astonishing moments of human achievement that rival traditional sports. From Daigo Umehara's legendary, frame-perfect 'Evo Moment 37' parry in Street Fighter III, to a 13-year-old boy achieving the mathematically impossible by finally 'crashing' the original NES Tetris after 34 years, to the staggering $40 million prize pool of Dota 2's 'The International', competitive gaming is constantly breaking the boundaries of what is considered possible. This quiz will rigorously test your knowledge of the most incredible, seemingly impossible records and statistics in the history of competitive gaming.

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  1. 1 Which specific game holds the record for the largest single esports tournament prize pool in history (as of 2023)? Answer hidden
  2. 2 In the highly competitive speedrunning community, what does 'Any%' mean? Answer hidden
  3. 3 In 2024, a 13-year-old player named Willis Gibson ('Blue Scuti') achieved a legendary, previously impossible milestone in the original 1989 NES version of Tetris. What did he do? Answer hidden
  4. 4 What is the best-selling single video game of all time (across all platforms)? Answer hidden
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