How Speedrunners Conquered The World's Hardest Game

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On December 15th, 2007, a 16-year-old developer named Snubby released The World's Hardest Game, one of the most infamous flash games ever created. The game challenged players to not just overcome it, but to truly conquer it by achieving a completion with the fewest number of deaths possible. However, for many, achieving the game's definition of perfection, zero deaths, wasn't enough. This is the story of how speedrunners truly conquered The World's Hardest Game. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World's Hardest Game Links: Current World Record - https://youtu.be/QG5s0gnzAKA Current TAS World Record - https://youtu.be/In0AfMoTvDM WHG Speedrun Version - https://www.speedrun.com/resourceasset/dubmd Standalone Flash Player - https://www.speedrun.com/resourceasset/4kbj4 WHG speedrun.com page - https://www.speedrun.com/whg1 Update (Nov 23rd, 2022) - After I put up a $500 bounty, Danicker has become the first to complete The World's Hardest Game 2 deathless! https://youtu.be/vp0sM8Baog4 Update (Feb 15th, 2026) - In the process of finding a lost WR of The Impossible Quiz, a 13 death 14:08 by Dolph from May 2008 was also uncovered and archived, making it the first official WHG1 record. This time assumes a 2x speed-up, which was the only option available in Windows Movie Maker back then. A 1 death 11:47 by Loogy123 from June 2008 was also found, meaning that HatredCopt3r never held the world record. Additionally, I found a 10:58 by qawsedrft from August 2008 on Niconico, which has since been reuploaded to YouTube and verified. You can find all three former records below: 14:08 by Dolph (2x speed): https://youtu.be/nHnG16DYVKc 11:47 by Loogy123: https://youtu.be/xfJc2qe9vi8 https://youtu.be/4CLhki9Tqvk (29.5s audio gap between parts) 10:58 by qawsedrft: https://youtu.be/TxTFs08pUFw --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music Credits: Music List - https://pastebin.com/66wA2www Many songs in this video are from Toontown: Corporate Clash, a fantastic recreation of Disney's Toontown: Online, which is worked on by a team of dedicated volunteers. The Relic Song remaster was created by Zame - https://www.youtube.com/c/ZameJack Snayk's Newgrounds Page (WHG1 Composer) - https://snayk.newgrounds.com/ A lot of Club Penguin music has been uploaded to YouTube in high quality by one of the game's original composers, Chris Hendricks - https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisHendricks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maximum Personal Links: Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/itsmaximum Speedrun.com Profile - https://www.speedrun.com/user/Maximum Speedruns Channel - @MoreMaximum Twitter - https://twitter.com/ItsMaximum_ Discord Server - https://discord.gg/VgdepznZQT World Record Graphs - @SpeedrunGraphs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to @aaronspeedruns1727, @hsblue, @fraims, @Danicker, @shiroma, @iBall1 (16 y/o Snubby's voice), and @_Pzula for making this project possible, and to @FairMaidenGames (Snubby) for creating the game! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Record Progression Graphs Created Using- https://flourish.studio/ World Record Data Obtained Through the Speedrun.com API- https://github.com/speedruncomorg/api #maximum #speedrun #theworldshardestgame