Super Mario Bros. 3 Any% (No Wrong Warp) - 10:46.783

First upload on second channel! I've been getting into Mario 3 for the past half year or so ever since one of my friends reminded me about MitchFlowerPower in a call once. I used to watch him lots back in 2020 and I vividly remember how entertaining his streams were. Those Any% Warpless early hammer streams had me hooked for hours. Remembering that, I went to check out his streams again, and he was just as entertaining as ever. This time around though, I was also mesmerized by how fun the game looked to play. The way Mario was controlled and how he can just beautifully fly through every level with P-Speed enticed me so much. It made me want to start speedrunning the game as well. So, I downloaded Nestopia UE and a Mario 3 ROM and got to work. Learning how the game controlled and getting comfortable with controlling Mario was very straight forward. Learning the levels was not. The category I wanted to run was Any% Warpless, but learning how to do each and every level perfectly was too daunting for me. I still wanted to speedrun the game but didn't want to go through the process of learning every single level and different routes for the category, so I opted for this one, the Any% No Wrong Warp category. I swapped to this category because I knew it was a very simple category with an easy route, but was very RNG heavy. I didn't mind that so much so long as I was able to speedrun the game at all. I've been practicing this route on and off for around the past 3 months, and once I put off learning the boring autoscrollers, I decided to start doing some runs. And that brings us to now! I've been doing runs on this game for the past week or so, and my GOD this category is brutal. And it's all because of a certain RNG element that we all know and love: the hands. I knew that the odds of getting no hands were 1/8, but that was certainly not the case for me. In the 1,000+ attempts that I've done, I've gotten no hands no more than a single digit amount of times, and I wish I was joking. I think that on the paces that I'm on, the hand intervals are just straight up garbage. I've gotten pulled in by all 3 hands twice the amount that I've gotten pulled in by none of them. So, to try and counteract this, I move Very Weirdly across the hands, as you can see in this run. And for some reason, it WORKED. I was so fed up with trying to move as fast as I could across the hands and always getting pulled in no matter what, so I tested a lot of different ways to cross the hands, even if it meant losing a few tenths of a second. The hands are still horrendous, but at least I'm getting no hands a bit more than once per 3 hours. I'm definitely looking to improve this run to at least a 10:44. My goal is top 5, and potentially top 3 if I'm really pushing it, but 10th place is certainly a great start for now. This run was set within the first 15 minutes of my first ever stream of this game, and I'll be streaming this way more over this winter break, so be sure to catch my streams on my twitch at twitch.tv/mostdefinitelyalbert (I can't actually link it since this is a new YouTube account).