Today, the same event can get more than 9 million unique viewers over the course of a week. "Once you get to that level of exposure, I think that signifies that speedrunning has arrived on the scene," said Chirayath, who himself speedruns NES game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! blindfolded. In 2014, a Games Done Quick event pulled in more than 100,000 viewers on Twitch. Speedrunner Sockfolder worked out a sure-fire way to clip into this star, instead of using a cannon to destroy the wall encasing it. "As long as you like video games and as long as you like the concept behind speedrunning, it's hard to fade out on it completely." Then there would be another game I could spend 10,000 hours in and not get bored," he said. "Let's say that I did get bored with 9,000 hours. When he started, he streamed up to 14 hours per day. 19, about four and a half minutes behind Alvarez. 11 on the world leaderboards for Mario 64 but lately has gone down to No. "I could spend three times that amount and probably still not be bored." "I almost feel bad saying that, because I know that I could've spent so much more time in the game," he said. Steffen Hagelskjær, a 22-year-old from the small city of Viborg, Denmark, known as flippy_o, places himself around the 3,000-hour mark on Mario 64. His closest rival, 23-year-old Devin Blair from Kentucky - aka puncayshun - said he's played about the same amount. I spend hours trying to get a run going and I just can't and I get frustrated," he said.Īlvarez has clocked more than 5,000 hours of playtime in a single game - probably tens of thousands of semifinished runs. " Mario has reached a point where it's so optimized and so difficult that I feel like I can't possibly try any harder and I just can't get anything going. Since its release two decades ago, Mario 64 has been played and replayed to the point where eking out a new, faster time seems nearly impossible. "When you have the world record in the most famous speedrun there is, you get famous, and I started making money. "Everyone says that I'm the fastest improver of all time," he said. Not now Turn on Turned on Turn on "Mario has reached a point where it's so optimized and so difficult that I feel like I can't possibly try any harder and I just can't get anything going." You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. Today, he streams five to six days each week, earning about $2,500 per month from Twitch alone. In only a year, Alvarez got his first world record and landed $1,000 in donations that day. Then, in the days after graduating from school, he began streaming his Mario 64 speedruns every night on Twitch, pulling in about $100 or $200 per month. He tried it himself in 2014, around the time of his senior high school exams. Now 22 years old, Alvarez first found speedrunning videos while grazing YouTube in Trinidad, where he grew up. Alvarez has done it in 1 hour, 39 minutes and 28 seconds, including cutscenes.
It takes the average gamer about 24 hours to do this, according to, an online database of game lengths. Alvarez holds the world record for beating it: 120 stars, which essentially means conquering every goal in the game.
His primary game, the classic platformer Super Mario 64, is the most popular for speedrunners. His shift often wraps up close to 7 AM.Īlvarez is a full-time speedrunner he competes with others around the world to beat a game in the fastest time possible. At around midnight in Spain - 6 PM on the US East Coast and thus peak viewing hours - he starts streaming on Twitch under his alias cheese05. After dinner, he does a few rounds of arm and finger stretches, makes sure he's hydrated, then turns on the Nintendo 64 to practice. Allan Alvarez can complete the game Super Mario 64 faster than anyone in the world, which means that most days he gets out of bed around 4 PM.Īfternoons consist of errands - lately, finding a new apartment and office space with reliable internet for streaming - and training with his volleyball team.
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