The fastest completion of the Desert course on SEGA Rally Championship for Saturn is 2 min 30.73 sec by Justin Towell (UK) at the offices of Gamesradar, Bath, UK on 29 January 2009. Justin read the score in the scoreboards section of the 2009 Gamer’s Edition, and applied to beat the record. His final time is just 0.07 seconds faster than the previous record, held by Cristiano T. Assumpcao (Brazil).
Released for the PC in 1990, The Secret of Monkey Island is the first game in the popular Monkey Island series of point n click games. One gamer, known only as “Mike”, managed to run through the game in just 39 min 12 sec. Mike completed the game as a multi-segment, meaning that he saved his progress after each chapter. Fast though he was, Mike could have saved himself some time, as The Secret of Monkey Island can be completed without even playing the game.
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Student Dylan Guptill (USA) of South Berwick, Maine, USA, completed Myst in 3 min 18 sec on 22 August 2007.
The trans-America solo records as set during the Race Across America (RAAM) are: the fastest man is Rob Kish (USA) in 8 days 3hr 11min in the 1992 event. Gentry Stanley (USA) crossed from San Diego, California to St Augustine, Florida (3,029 miles) on a recumbent tricycle in 8 days 3hr 15min, 18 Feb-28 March 1998.
Al Howie (GB) ran across Canada, from St Johns to Victoria, a distance of 7295.5 km (4,533.2 miles), in 72 days 10 hr 23 min, from 21 June to 1 September 1991.
With temperatures reaching 50°C (122°F), Pat Farmer crossed the Simpson Desert, Australia in a 379 km (234.5 miles) traverse in 3 days 8 hr 36 min finishing on 26 January 1998 (Australia Day), which calculates at an average of 4.75 km/h (2.95 mph). Crossing a total 1,162 dunes, he reached heights up to 40 m (131 ft). The Simpson Desert is the world’s largest sand dune desert, of 170,000 km² (the size of England Wales combined). It is situated mainly in the Northern Territory, with
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The world record for the men’s 500 m cycle (unpaced, from flying start) is 24.758 sec. by Chris Hoy (UK), in La Paz, Bolivia on 13 May 2007.
The highest speed attained by a destroyer was 45.25 knots (83.42 km/h or 52 mph) by the 2,900 tonne (6.4 million lb) French ship Le Terrible in 1935. Built in Blainville, France and powered by four Yarrow small tube boilers and two Rateau geared turbines, giving 74,570 kW (100,000 shp), she was decommissioned at the end of 1957.
The fastest ever speed attained cycling downhill on snow or ice is 222 km/h (138 mph), by Eric Barone (France) at Les Arcs, France on 21 April 2000.
The fastest speed at which a spacecraft has ever departed from Earth is 58,338 kph (36,250 mph). It was achieved by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which launched from Cape Canaveral on 19 January 2006, beginning a nine-year flight to the planet Pluto and its moons. Pluto is the only planet in the Solar System yet to be surveyed by a spacecraft.