How fast is Mario in Super Mario Odyssey? Is there a limit to how fast he can go? How are we able to abuse and manipulate the game to make him go faster. Here we explore exactly that, seeing what exactly we can do to make Mario move as fast as possible.
Important Note:
Because I used average speed to calculate the speeds of the different methods in the video, some things may have much higher top speeds then the speed I mention in the video. A good example of this is likely the assist bubble, as I timed from the first frame Mario appears in the bubble to the frame Mario pops, leaving some time at the start and end where Mario isn't moving much. I timed it this way because the player doesn't have control over Mario during the Assist bubble, so to me it made since to include it in the travel time, as it's a drawback of using the assist bubble to get from one point to another.
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Since I probably should have used km/h instead of m/s here's basically all the data points I collected in km/h for those complaining in the comments Mario Running - 29 km/h Long Jumping - 41 km/h Diving - 40 km/h Rolling - 60 km/h Running Downhill - 48 km/h Rolling Downhill - 74 km/h Rocket Flowers - 81 km/h Falling - 97 km/h Vehicles/Captures Scooter - 72 km/h Jaxi - 150 km/h Dinosaur - 77 km/h Cheep Cheep - 43 km/h Gushen - 76 km/h Bullet Bill 104 km/h Banzai Bill - 168 km/h Glydon - 64 km/h "Fling Objects" (Like forks) - 88 km/h Spark Pylon - 257 km/h Zipper - 105 km/h Lava Bubble - 61 km/h Lava Cannon - 116 km/h Bowser - 68 km/h Yoshi - 61 km/h Dram - 320 km/h Warping Sand Kingdom - 342 km/h Bowser's Kingdom - 765 km/h Darker Side - 317 km/h Assist Mode Wooded Kingdom - 855 km/h Metro Kingdom - 350 km/h Darker Side - 1423 km/h Darker Side 2 - 2,441 km/h Glitches Fire/Ice Hyperspeed - 172 km/h Goomba Chain Jumping/Hyperspeed - 154 km/h Infinite Fall Letter - 7200 km/h Infinite Fall Bubble Drop - 288,000,000 km/h
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What about using the letter speed where you glitch a letter in a car and get out of the car as the letter.
Here's a glitch that I did on accident, the letter glitch. You know how you go out of bounds with the letter to do the infinite jump rope thing. Well I did it kind of weird, when the letter went out of bounds it shot me across the map and I died. I went through buildings and went to the world border
Do the moon pls :)
Holy hell. And that's before we look at Sonics speed...OMG! THESE CHARACTERS ARE *TOO FAST* !!!! ( *and potentially too big!!!* ... )
Just imagine someone in the 100m dash finals jumping towards the finish line like a weirdo instead of running like everybody else... and winning.
And repeatedly saying stuff like "whee!" and "wahoo!" as well.
@@SuspiciousTemmie bro Usain bolt would be like “you good?”
@@galactic_cupcake8744 For some reason “Mario will kill you” translates to “How do you do all this cool stuff?” in Google Translate
@@YourNormalProgram You gotta go the options of the Google Translate and pick the Zalgo Text Generator
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11:43 this means that mario could go to the moon in around ~6 seconds using this method.
Like that one scene from One Punch
@@theminiyosshi2901 mario punch oddessy
you didn't consider mario getting near massless, therefore time slowing down but for outsiders it would appear that way
It's downward movement, not upward movement, so that wouldn't work, unless he's actually turning back time & falling from a massless moon.
@@Mo_Mauve but who said the Moon is up?
This was a really good and interesting video! The only thing I kinda missed was the speed mario travels at with those flowers.
The rocket flowers that make you go super fast you mean?
Cause if you do that's 81 km/h
Yeah, I didn’t think it would be very fast compared to the other things
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And the scooter in metro kingdom
never thought someone would be disappointed at travelling 1/4 the speed of light...
Yeah lol ikr
Video over freaking Borin
Freaking mario fast
I’m just disappointed that Mario doesn’t experience any relativistic effects… Lazy physics engine, if you ask me!
@@Muhahahahazhonestly we should do a squel about Mario BLJs
Never realized just how close to real bullets bullet bills could get. Like, if a banzai bill hit a train, it would probably get derailed.
even the whole train station imo x)
You probably wouldn't even need that much speed either due to the sheer amount of MASS that thing would be carrying.
@@ultimatewolfgaming4171 fr tho, bonzai bill has to be about a ton
@@dampseeker More like 1000 tons. The Banzai Bill appears to be about 3 times as tall and 5 times as long as Mario, so roughly a cylinder 4.5 m diameter and 7.5 m long, and if it's made of lead...
@@brendanshammerlin6273 oh 2,000,000 pounds ok
Looks like Mario's still got it, breaking reality to go infinitely fast
And we should respect that claim, its by sonic. Lol
@@YourSearchHistory as opposed to TJ “Henry” Yoshi
he doesn't even need to break reality to become faster then usain bolt...
@Flinxmin your pfp is sonics reaction to this video
@@PlutoniumWombat2008 according to sonic rush adventure, sonic can run lightspeed, and in gens and forces, he run where there’s no time or space, meaning he has more than infinite speed, and according to the Archie comics, it says that sonic can visit every single planet (including the ones that they don’t know yet) and still be back for dinner
11:35 80,000,000m/s is 80,000km/s that equals to 288,000,000km/h But lets focus on the 80,000km/s The earth has a circumference of aprox. 40,000km. That means mario can travel 2 times around the earth in just a second. And now, the distance between earth and moon is aprox. 384,400km, so... mario could travel from earth to the moon in 4.8 seconds. (If you have seen Onepunchman, u should remember saitama jumped from the moon to the earth in 19 secs, that means, mario can travel 4 times faster than that jump) And for last, the distance between earth and mars is aprox 54,600,000km. So, mario could travel from earth to mars in 11 minutes.
LOL You have taken that too serious
Bro if Mario could go around the earth 2 times in 1 second it’s like that scene from the original Superman movie where he went around the earth a lot of times in a second
@@solarsoda2006 Superman however by physics would be restricted to around 7.5 times per second, as that would be the speed of light. Everything above that would require too much energy.
Oooh myy 💀.
Can’t you only breathe for 10 minutes. And also the temperature of space is -240F but Mario could make it to the moon 11:35
Sonic: "Runnin around at the speed of sound" Mario: Pfft, child's play!
but..... he can go faster than light , you know?
@@cuentopia-senolore1021 acually no, the fastest sonic has ever moved at is 15 times the speed of sound.
_I am four parallel universes ahead of you!_
@Mina Yu he actually did go faster then the speed of light if you read the comics
@@Tembees mario can go way faster than sonic if we find a way
I love it when teleportation is only halfway through a highest speed video
2:34 every second you're not running, Mario is only getting closer.
in the instant that Mario leaves the cannon he goes at around 125.5 mph. this was from the xyz velocity given by the mod, and I then converted it based on the speed he was going during your first test, assuming that Mario's running speed is constant and you followed a roughly straight path in metro kingdom I got a conversion factor of 16 whatever units of speed were used is equal to 8.2 m/s so you can multiply the speed the game gives by 0.5125 and you get the speed in m/s. the first frame that he leaves the cannon the magnitude of his velocity is 109.5, and converting to m/s we get a top speed of around 56.14 m/s or 125.59 mph. Of course this is the top speed and he immediately slows down, but for a little bit Mario is faster than the bullet bill.
Really interesting, even though my little brain missed half of it lol. But thanks for doing the math!
CRCs, or happy return cancels can make you go massive distances almost instantly, they're pretty hard but they can go the whole map if a setup is found, which one has been found for all the wires in bowsers kingdom for the min cap run. You should try that out
Originally I was gonna test out CRCs for the video but I ultimately decided that it probably wouldn't be any faster than the assist bubble I got in Darker Side + I didn't want to make the video too long.
@@Fir I saw that you put the sideflip at the end there, could you maybe do a video on that eventually?
@@specterx2135 just look in the action guide it will tell you to run in 1 direction then quickly move in the opposite direction and then jump
@DarkCoreX we don't care about set up time, just raw speed.
@DarkCoreX Excluding stuff like mincaps
i actually appreciate the m/s because i have very little mental ability to conceptualize mph or km/h, but '6m in a single second' is much more easy to visualize. i see where people are upset and can see why km would have been helpful but imo the distance per second was really nice to have too. (perhaps next time have all 3?) super fascinating video, nicely done!
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damn, cool it helped you, but not having the km/h rendered all of that speed useless to me as I can't convert m/s nor m/h on the fly. So I'm definitively in favor of all 3 units displayed for any futur video, so everyone can understand, you, me, and those weird americans too !
@@cirlu_bd metres/second is the universal indicator for speed in physics. no scientists determine speed in mph or km/h.
@@iaminconstantpain4330 Yeah but regular people who drive use km/h or mph all the time
@@cirlu_bd how can you not convert m/s to km/h easily ??? Just multiply by 3.6
6:30 For the warps, do you think that Mario actually travels that distance in that amount of time, or do you think that it just cuts out the traveling and skips to when Mario arrives at the warp? Because the screen does go white and loads in the are that you warped to. Other methods of traveling so far in this video dont require loads like that. So we can physically see Mario move the entire distance. With the warp, we only see cappy move a short distance before the screen cuts out and skips to Mario arriving to the warp. There’s no way to confirm that he actually travels that full distance within the load time. Hence why all warps are the same length. Like warping to a warp you are standing right next to takes the same amount of loading time at warping across a kingdom.
My thought too. If you assume that travel is in real time and loads aren't cut out, then warping between a moon kingdom and an earth kingdom would be extremely fast. For reference, it takes light 1.3 seconds to travel between them. Mario's speed would be based on the load time.
Yes but in lore he doesnt teleport instead cappy flies the distance so i guess it counts but anyway it isnt the fastest you can go anyway so doesnt really matter much
@@toastWs That's not what the person was saying. They were saying that while Cappy flew there it probably cut the travel. That's it
I think obviously cuts to when mario arrives at the warp💀 Kinda eh
*cappy
That was really cool! Even tho Mario can't quite hit the Speed Of Light as of now, we can rest assured that he has done it before and truly has no speed limit. You can't run from Mario.
And imagine that with the 3x rocket flower and super star buffs to speed.
I expected a joke about backwards long jumps, but the video is still awesome without it.
As what Dangers used to say in his Twitch notifications: “Making The Red Hat Boi Go Fast!”
always love how thorough and well put together your content is. Keep it up!!
It's always a joy to watch your videos, great content c:
2:42 OH NO WE CANT RUN
Solid video, Fir! Keep em coming! =)
"The people in New Donk City are over 8 feet tall" What.
This channel is horribly underrated, awesome video
I love the two little parts at the beginning where you pointed out that people from the Metro Kingdom are over 8 ft tall and there really is no running from Mario
As soon as Luigi's balloon world was revealed the first thing I wanted to do with it was calculate/find out how fast mario moves in the game but, more importantly to me, how high he could jump. Unfortunately I don't have the right tools to make a video like that nor do I have two Switches to set up balloons at specific heights to calculate the various jumps. Could these new tools that you used easily calculate mario's various jumps and how high they go?
I could have sworn I've seen a video about this game's frame data, but I misplaced the link and I'm not sure KZhead would let me mention it anyway...
I love how you keep metric and us systems in mind
I did some rough calculations on the lava bubble speed: If the vertical velocity is 72 mph and without being given the max height reached, I do have to make an assumption: assuming the max height reached forms a 30 degree angle with the cannon, the max height reached is 12*root(3). With this information and knowing that the initial and final velocity will be equal in magnitude but opposite y components, I can use the SUVAT equations to determine that the initial velocity purely in the y direction is equal to 12*root(3) as well. Knowing the initial vertical velocity allows me to then simply do some trigonometry to find that the two velocity vectors combined achieve a total initial velocity of 74.9 mph. Again, this is assuming that the max height at the middle of the trajectory forms a 30 degree angle with the location of the cannon and the top of the lava, but this assumption seems reasonable to form estimates with.
Sonic: Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
Lol sonic still wins
@@zander513nah
that was the coolest thing ever,i never realised how fast mario is
Jesus this is a sick video. the math required to do this is unbelievable. Good video fir.
I love how much of the Kirby games' soundtracks were used in this. Delicious.
I think you might be able to go very fast by abusing suckage. Just like in min caps, in NDC Anyways, great video
Can you not teleport back to a warp point once you've fall glitched an inconceivably long distance? Since it'd take about the same amount of time to load in, but you'd have "travelled" that whole distance back to the map in that shorter time?
you can't teleport when you're falling. I mean if you could mario could probably travel at like 8 trillion mph. like it would be crazy
Also if you are calling then you can’t cheat and just warp
you probably should've translated mph to kmh instead of m/s other than that very interesting video!
Yeah you're probably right, I should have had the two different units on the same scale.
m/s is the scale used for speed in physics and doesn't change, so really it makes more sense here
@@iaminconstantpain4330 comparison is to mph, which isnt used in physics.
Now we know how Mario can outrun Sonic in the 100m dash at the Olympics
Mario going so fast he's experiencing time dilation
And I thought Sonic was fast.
Awesome video, interesting stuff!
commenting for engagement cause you worked really hard on this
The best way to convert vertical speed into horizontal speed is, as everyone knows, by using portals. 🤷♂️
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11:34 Wait, that seems to be twice as much as it actually is. Gravity is -3 out of the assist mode bubble, so it rounds to -4 where floats are 4 apart but to 0 when floats are 8 apart, which is at 2**26 speed, or 40,265,318.4 m/s, or 13.4% of c. After 18,175,317 frames (84 hours), you'll finally have reached the maximum speed and will have fallen 595,705,320,177,664cm or 40 astronomical units (taking float rounding into account on every frame). It'll take another 7,900,515 frames (37 hours) to reach the maximum *distance* of 2**50 units or 75 au, and it's not a coincidence that these are less than a factor of 10 away from each other. Build up speed for 84 hours on stream. You know you want to.
I’m just gonna pretend I know what this says
This is correct, we doubled the speed in calculations by accident. Also, the further you fall, the laggier the game becomes (probably due to the ever-increasing area needed to check for collision between each frame) so it'll take much longer to reach the maximum speed. After only 24 hours of falling my game was running at 10fps.
11:20 This fall will seemingly accelerate Mario infinitely at a speed of 108 metres per second Acceleration refers to change in velocity over time Believe it or not, the way acceleration is measured is in "metres per second per second"
and the top speed still doesnt beat sonic, that SCARES me
Mario’s running speed may be faster since he can outrun the T. rex
Running at 19 mph is insanely fast
Very interesting and well made video!
I love how the thumbnail is not clickbait and shows the exact speed lol
Fact: according to WatchData, it takes 46 Octillion humans to defeat Mario
Nah toad is faster Super Mario 3D World logic
if you use the glitch where Mario leaves cappy at the globe on the odyssey you could theoreticly reach infinite amounts of speed because its just straight up teleportation
A glitch that gives Mario a lot of horizontal momentum is the forward long jump. Inside of Pauline's skyscraper (Band Room) suckage is applied and this room is very far from New Donk city. Yes this room isn't a sub area. Now you can long jump near a fence and if you get lucky you'll get Mario to clip out of the room and launch back to New Donk city. Side Note: If you walk a letter into a car it might get launched.
wait I just thought of something if mario traveled at the speed of light the millennium falcon would just have a glitchy mario inside the hyperdrive lol
Don’t forget that Mario often builds up de facto speed for 12 hours to travel to parallel universes.
Super high quality video!
Bro, I was just about to finish editing a video with the same idea. This is so unforunate.
Wait a second, what about THE ODESSY? it can travel to the moon within seconds. It could potentially be faster.
Thats the machine, not Mario.
@@irjer well cappy and all the captures in the game technically aren't Mario either but they are counted
@@liamdalemon1525 I guess since mario's very essence is inside the captured being, it stills counts as Mario can move on his own🤔
Mario can travel to the moon in around 6 seconds moving at 8 billion units per second. The odessy takes longer than that, but it's still insanely fast
I checked. Based on the real-world distance to the Moon, it's: 113,439,600 mph 182,563,340 km/h 50,712,039 m/s Still not fast enough to beat the infinite fall bubble.
Fun fact the mod you are using literally tells you Mario's velocity at any given moment if you look at player speed: H: which stands for horisontal. Great video tho
I know, but player velocity gets a little weird in some of the things I tested and I figured it'd be better to have a consistent timing method for everything I showed in the video. As an example if you go to 5:09 Player Vel and Player Speed are both 0 when Mario is in the electrical wire capture.
This is such a random video. I love it!
What if you do the inverse? How slow can Mario move? Great video btw!
Thanks for putting m/s and not km/h
personally I'm not very pleased by that, I never really used meters per seconds before and would have prefered the usual km/h
@@cirlu_bd it was irony. I always use km/h, m/s sux
@@nil24nil It's just metric vs imperial. He put it in the description now, but you could have simply multiplied by like 1.6 to get what you wanted it's not that hard...
He's a lot faster in Mario 64.
Awesome video!! What’s the magnitude of the gravity in the odyssey universe?
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Fun Fact: Y o u c a n n o t r u n f r o m M a r i o.
Unless you’re Luigi
You can't run from mario. Let that sink in. 😐
Imagine driving at 60 MPH on the road and then out you window seeing a zipper flying a small bit faster than you
If you calculate the distance traveled after using a cannon as a lava bubble by using the equation for a semi circle it would equate to going approximately 113 mph actually making faster than the bonsai bill and being the second faster capture overall (this all assuming the arc of the cannon is roughly a perfect circle)
How does bro have negative purple coins 💀
Mario didnt pay the kingdom taxes 💀
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Maximum speed is equivalent to 20 percent of the speed of light. Mario still needs to accelerate to reach the speed of light.
I'm sure it wasn't the fastest after hearing about the 0.27c answer, but I was really curious about the suckage glitch from the dance hall back to the main metro area. I bet that one gets pretty speedy.
Great vid!
cool
JFK approved 🙏
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About the float rounding thing, I wanted to see if that was actually the case. Going frame by frame (in a 30FPS clip), it seemed like Mario was gaining 3 units of negative vertical speed each frame (6 every 2 frames, and since Mario Odyssey runs at 60FPS, that comes out to 3 every frame). As Mario's speed value is a float, it is of course subjected to float rounding. We would need to reach a point where the float coarseness ends up making each consecutive float 8 apart. From my understanding of floats, that would occur at 67,108,864, meaning that the true speed cap would be only 67,108.864 m/s, or about 150,118.25 mph. Unless of course, it's a double-precision float (or "double" for short), which I'm not sure what it would be for that.
There was an error in the calculation (thinking it was 6u/f instead of 3u/f) so we thought it was 80 million m/s, but it's actually 40 million. You're correct that it would happen at 67,108,864 u/f but remember that one unit is 1cm and one frame is 1/60 of a second, so 67,108,864 u/f is 40 million m/s
No clue what ive just watched but I enjoyed it!
Came here because I thought Fir would play a mod in Odyssey that speeds Mario up. I am not disappointed tho. This video is way more interesting.
Possible glitch to increase that 8 billion u/s cap to something higher except it isnt a glitch; Cap(py(ify)) an entity with a larger (or nonexistant) vertical speed cap and a possible way to convert that vertical speed into horizontal speed: Land on a 45 degree slope while falling at ludicrous speed. ofc ive never played odyssey, so i could be completely wrong.
phenomenal video
i find it funny how these are all massively slower then marios best speed feats in canon but nice vid lol
@Gnoškolk Galunga mario moves in a timeless void, mario reacts to be launched to the edge of the universe in seconds, mario keeps up with power star users amped by their power and they can travel across the universe in seconds. can tag the millenium star flying away which can travel from the center of the universe
"And that is definitive proof that you can't run from mario." Yes he will chase you with an infinite fall.
Ayyyy the mario odyssey master in my opinion has uploaded!
"It's pretty definitive proof that you cam't run from Mario"
Hi Fir thanks for showing both metric systems, but the conversion would work better for metric people if you show km/h.
If Mario puts a checkpoint on your back, *it’s over*
Who else was reminded of Super Mario 64 and its Backwards Long Jump, which is, simply put, an exploit of that game's physics that can make Mario move at such incomprehensible speeds, he can literally end up in a parallel universe.
Lovely video, Fir!
I think there is another glitch that can get over the endless falling bubble glitch. In Metro Kingdom, in the auditorium, in the corner, you long jump and land in just the right spot to go incredibly fast. I only think it works on the first version of the game though. Another glitch a pan be found, if you use the same letter out of bounds glitch, again, in Metro, you can clip into a taxi, then go back into the letter, and go super fast. Again, I only think this works on the first version of the game.
Mario goes so fast that people just need to make a vr headset then just go groom vroom
Fir the best gaming professor 👨🏼🏫
Bruh when I first saw the video and shit I briefly misread your name and thought you were Simply the SM64 speedrunner lol Do you get that a lot? Or do you not upload Mario videos enough for that to happen. This is my first time seeing your channel but if I like the video Ill probably stick around :) Also speaking of this I remember everyone always saying Luigi is faster than Mario but if you have them run side by side in SM64DS Multiplayer then Mario was... faster than I thought and faster than Luigi lol
ah, the Kirby Airride music in the background, an excellent choice
Sonic: HOW ARE YOU SO FAST- Mario: Nano-Flesh Son
You are really underrated
Warping "skips" the middle of the journey from our perspective, meaning that the warping speed is in-universe much lower than what you calculated. From the cutscenes it looks to be about the speed of thrown Cappy.
4:17 The calculus arc length formula could help with this.
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Imagine seeing Mario jumping to hell and coming from Heaven at 178 Million MPH.
Me: wants to race Mario and see if im faster than him Also me: sees this video Mario: i think you have found how fast i can really go
I love how you use metric system insteed of your own foot!