How many hours have you played SM64?

[RWhiteGoose]

I have been driving this discussion a bit lately. I state that if you can become a Top 10 quality player in your speedgame in under 3000 hours, it's not a competitive speedgame. I know that SM64 is one of only a handful of actually competitive speedgames, so am I off? I could consider revising the statement to about 2000 hours, but I'm sure everyone here agrees that if you can become Top 10 in under 1000 hours your speedgame is a joke.

Toastrider claims "way less than" 3000 hours played, and Haliinen concurs. I consider Top 10 to having "Top 10 times or obviously capable of such in both 120 and 70 star" but maybe that's not a great criteria as a fair few 120ers don't care about 70?

Anyways, post estimates of your the hours you've played SM64. I especially am interested in hearing from top players.

[phantaxx]

I've been interested in this as well, I have no clue the total amount I've played and I think if I made an estimate it would probably be way off, which is why I started using an overall timer about a month ago. I'm no top player but I can tell you that it took 143 hours to bring my 120 star time from 2:00:22 to 1:52:49

[Krygowski]

I've been playing on and off since Feb 2013, but I have no idea how many hours I've played. I guess I will start keeping track. My times are still pretty bad so it will be interesting to see how long it takes for me to get decent if I'm motivated.

[sicko]

I've been interested in this as well, I have no clue the total amount I've played and I think if I made an estimate it would probably be way off, which is why I started using an overall timer about a month ago. I'm no top player but I can tell you that it took 143 hours to bring my 120 star time from 2:00:22 to 1:52:49

You've been playing sm64 for a while now and already had pretty good movement so your 143 hours is a pretty bad way to judge how long 2 hours -> low 1:5x takes.

[phantaxx]

I've been interested in this as well, I have no clue the total amount I've played and I think if I made an estimate it would probably be way off, which is why I started using an overall timer about a month ago. I'm no top player but I can tell you that it took 143 hours to bring my 120 star time from 2:00:22 to 1:52:49

You've been playing sm64 for a while now and already had pretty good movement so your 143 hours is a pretty bad way to judge how long 2 hours -> low 1:5x takes.

yeah I guess you're right, I did have to work to improve my times even at 1:59, but I probably underestimate how much having decent movement helped me to improve quickly

[sicko]

I probably have around 1300-1500 hours in sm64 since September 2010.

[Hafus]

As an estimate I would say about 500-800 hours. I have over 200 hours played in other games such as final fantasys and kingdom hearts. I think my estimate is pretty accurate, i started playing early 2013 and nearly everyday. I think my skill level personally isnt close to where it should be for the amount of time I have put into this game. But it is fun and addicting so i can never quit x)

[snowman]

I think I've only put in about 400-600 hours in since Jan 2013

[toastrider]

i feel like its almost impossible to estimate hours played unless you have a schedule where you played the exact same amount every day since youve started but of course no one does that. everyone takes breaks sometimes and have days where they play a lot and days where they dont play at all so its really hard to say, but id probably have to say somewhere between 1000-2000 hours for me. thats not even close to a specific estimate but as i said i have no idea lol

[Haliinen]

I actually wish I had a fair estimate of how much I've spent into this game, it's either between 1700-2100 hours as of now and I feel like improving my 120 star PB is not something that will happen soon (but I may be wrong on this one)l. But if toastrider really played around 2000 hours and is down to a 1:45 then that is very very impressive and I'm way out of his league.

This is my first post, lol... Guess it was time that I made an account here so I'm a part of this community in a way or another.