The record for filling a 508 kg (0.5 ton) hopper with coal using a banjo shovel by a team of two is 14.8 seconds, by Brian Coghlan and Piet Groot (both New Zealand) at the opening of the Brunner Bridge, South Island, New Zealand, on 27 March 2004.
The fastest completion of Age of Empires III (Ensemble Studios, 2005) was achieved in 1 hr 31 min 52 sec by Bart de Waal (Netherlands) and verified by SpeedDemosArchive.com on 1 December 2008. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
US Gamer Janner of online community weplayedcod.com posted a completion time of 1 min 39.5 sec on the special ops mission “Sniper Fi” on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, 2009) on PC. This is 16 seconds faster than the best time achieved by the game”s developers. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The fastest completion of ”Avec le Brique” on Timesplitters: Future Perfect (Eidos, 2005) is 2 min 17.6 sec, achieved by James ”TwIsTeD_EnEmY” Bouchier, in Aberystwyth, UK on 11 July 2010. http://www.bragster.com/users/323380-twisted_enemy/brags/369376-timesplitters-3-fastest-time-on-avec-le-brique
The fastest segmented speed run through Blizzard’s Diablo (1996) was achieved on 16 January 2009 by Maciej Maselewski of Poland, who played as the sorceror character and took only 3 min 12 sec to finish the game. This is a particularly impressive feat as the game normally takes most gamers between 10 and 20 hours to complete. Maselewski played each of the 27 segments over and over to produce a near-perfect speed run that exploited Diablo’s dungeon design and allowed him to move quickly to
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The fastest completion of the first level of Demon’s Souls took just 4 min 44 sec, and was achieved by Fred Vasquez (Canada) at his home in British Columbia, Canada, on 9 August 2010.
The fastest completion of Banjo Kazooie (Rare, 1998) took 3 hr 32 min 45 sec and was achieved by Alex Penev (Australia) and verified by Twin Galaxies on 20 February 2000. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
After the “King of All Cosmos” accidentally destroys the stars, he tasks his son with the unenviable job of recreating them – so goes the story behind Namco’s Katamari Damacy, one of the surprise hits of 2004. With a single-segment completion time of 30 min 26 sec, American Tom “slowbro” Batchelor became the game’s undisputed champion on 3 August 2006. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The fastest segmented completion of Final Fantasy VII (Square, 1997) was achieved in 7 hr 41 min on the PC version by Andrew “Farringa” Farrington (USA) and verified by SpeedDemosArchive.com 4 June 2007. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The fastest completion of the Gamecube version of Doctor Robotnik”s Mean Bean Machine (SEGA, 1994) took just 305 seconds, and was achieved by David Greiner (USA) in Illinois, USA on 7 January 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011