Summoning Salt states Tyson here offered him a “perfect pattern” throughout his very first stage of unlimited uppercuts, something that occurs just 1 in 1,600 bouts. And later on in the battle, the video game’s random-number generator complied by including just an additional 16 frames of hold-up (~ 0.8 in-game seconds) compared to a “perfect” run. Integrated, Summoning Salt approximates that Tyson will just punch this rapidly as soon as every 7,000 to 10,000 efforts.

“It’s over,” Summoning Salt stated survive on Twitch when the record-setting match was completed, in a remarkably even tone that came by what sounds quite like a dropped controller. “I thought I’d be a lot more excited about this. Holy shit, dude! It’s fucking over… Dude, am I dreaming right now? … I’m sorry I’m so quiet. I’m kind of in shock right now that that just happened.”

Where do we go from here?

With his near-perfect mix of both ability and luck, Summoning Salt’s brand-new record exceeds his own previous world record of specifically 2:00.00 on the in-game clock. That mark, set simply 8 months back, was simply 3 frames off of showing 1:59 on the in-game timer for the very first time.

Summoning Salt was likewise the very first runner to break the 2:01 barrier on Tyson in 2020, an accomplishment he has actually considering that reproduced simply 15 times over 10s of countless efforts. “There’s essentially no difference between all of those [2:00.xx] fights and this one, except I got better luck from Tyson on this fight,” he composes. “Finally, after nearly half a decade, the 1:59 has happened.”

Paradoxically, right before publishing his very first 2:00. xx battle in 2020, Summoning Salt published a video talking about in part simply how challenging it was for speedrunners to beat Matt Turk’s 2007 record of 2:13 on Tyson. “For years it was just this impossibly fast time that the top players just couldn’t get close to,” Summoning Salt stated at the time. “Of course, other top players fought Tyson years later, but their best efforts came up short… they couldn’t touch it. It stood alone.”

Summoning Salt is now simply over a 2nd off of the tool-assisted speedrun record of 1:58.61, which utilizes replicated gameplay to eliminate a theoretical “perfect” bout whenever. After investing years on what he composes “is the greatest gaming achievement I have ever accomplished,” Summoning Salt appears all set to hang up his virtual boxing gloves for excellent.

“I have no plans to ever improve this time,” he composes. “It will be beaten by somebody one day, likely by matching this fight and then getting better luck in phase 3. I have no interest in competing for that but am extremely proud to have gotten the first sub 2 ever on Mike Tyson.”