world record

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. This time luck won out and a streamer trying to break the 100 line clearing world record in Tetris made a simple little mistake and then realized by doing so that he broke an entirely different record. However, the next day his skill won out and he...

AMD Threadripper Gooseberry HEDT World Record This was a Blender benchmark that I was not familiar with till yesterday, but after running it a few times and looking around the Net, I came away very impressed with our rendering time with Threadripper overclocked to 4GHz across all 16 cores...

A speedrunner has set the new world record for a non-TAS (tool-assisted speedrun) in Portal without the use of any portals in just 48 minutes and 57 seconds. Going by the name of Icy, the player has over "1300 hours logged into the game, two mice with broken scroll wheels, and wrists that I need...

Apparently, a Canadian sniper in the elite special forces, JTF 2, set the record for the longest confirmed kill shot at a distance of 3,450 meters (2.14 miles) away from the target, beating the old record by almost a 1,000 meters. The sniper used a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle, firing from a...