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Comment by blatherard | Hacker News Reader

Should probably add (2007) to the title.

Four months later the previous record holder, Harry Hong, took back the title with a 4,988-line run (about 5x Lori's run), which remains the record to this day.

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It looks like she held the record for just three of those months. A month before Harry Hong took it back, a guy named Neil Gewirtz took it from her with a run of 2349 lines.

http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856

that would have bothered me not getting just shy of 5,000 points

That's incredible. How could he beat his own record by a factor of like 6x? Was he not really trying before or did he learn something special?

Tetris DX must be somehow more forgiving than the original Tetris.

Yes, Tetris DX's maximum speed is pretty permissive. Even at level 30, you still have enough time to orient your piece and place it anywhere on the playing field. This isn't the case for the maximum speed of other Tetris versions.

Seems kind of strange that suddenly this guy goes from 600 pts to almost 5000. It's also weird that his total points from marathon mode was 9,999,999.

I don't know. Assuming that he scored the original record because he was an avid player, he probably spent a lot of time naturally honing his skills afterwards, and with no one else to beat it for a while, he didn't have any reason to defend it.

Not too weird. That's just how high the score counter goes. You can keep playing after that, but the number stops going up. (source: I've gotten that score myself. (although I paused every hour or so when my arms fell asleep, so that disqualifies me from submission))

Some people play down to the level of their competition.

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