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Amazing story. This makes me wonder how many people unknowingly hold world records-breaking personal best.

Edit: holy f%ck, the record is 4988 lines, now. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-line...

That's pretty funny! The record is from a month after this article was published, and it's held by the previous champ who Lori briefly dethroned, Harry Hong [1].

Watching the gameplay is a trip - it's like watching an i9 crunch numbers when you're used to a Pentium II.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/SuPaSaYaJiN/videos

That's NES though, he doesn't seem to have his GBC records uploaded. I actually can't find any recordings of GBC records.

But yeah, watching tetris pros is amazing. The "classic" is of course 2018's Jonas Neubauer vs. Joseph Saelee NES Tetris world championship match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_UPHsGR6fM

If you've never seen it before, you'd probably don't think you'd enjoy watching twenty minutes of two guys playing tetris. You'd be wrong.

Thank you so much for this; it was even better than I expected! I had no idea Tetris had such a big and thriving community. TIL!

Have you seen people play Tetris the Grand Master 3 past level 999?

Oh yeah! Totally different type of Tetris though, kinda like... I dunno... rugby and Australian rules football?

Probably everyone, in some obscure thing or other. ;)

As far as I know, I currently hold the world record score at knife fairy. The game of knife fairy is very simple. You must sneak into your roommates room late at night and slip a knife under their pillow. My current score is 1, so it should be easy to beat. Good luck!

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