Mario Kart World player declares a new "world record" with 770 tricks in the air off one jump as they soar across the map

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They're defying gravity

Bowser leaping in the air driving the Baby Blooper kart in Mario Kart World
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A Mario Kart World player has pulled off what I thought would be an impossible trick and chained 770 air tricks while effortlessly gliding across the map. They claim it's a world record, but it's all thanks to a glitch, so I don't know if people will count it. It's still impressive, though.

Our daredevil, Bubbers, posted a video to Twitter showing them using a Mushroom to boost Shy Guy up the edge of a track and then using a Feather to somehow cut gravity and let them glide about up in the air for a ridiculously long time.

"New World Record: 770 tricks in the air," Bubbers tweets triumphantly. "I can absolutely find a way to do tricks infinitely in the air. Mark my words," they add.

The glitch that makes this possible has been around for at least three days. We first spotted it on Reddit, with one player proclaiming, "I think I broke the game." It can be executed in different parts of the map and with different characters, but the Mushroom and Feather seem necessary. Try it out for yourself before Nintendo likely patches it.

Not everyone is as impressed as me, though. "Doesn't really count since it's a bug. Eh nice try bucko," replies one player. Bubbers responded with a "glitchless" video of their racer managing 73 air tricks in a row by bouncing off of clouds and walls. Still nice.

If you don't want to practice this glitch, you could instead check out all the Switch 2 launch games to see if there's one you missed.

Issy van der Velde
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I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

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