I Watched Over 1,000 Speed Runs and World Records to Find the Best Combo in EVERY Mario Kart Game
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe recently became the best selling racing game of all time in the United States. To celebrate, I wanted to find the best racer, karts, or combination for every installment of Mario Kart. If you'd like to see the breakdown for each game then keep reading. If you don't have the time to read about 9 different games don't worry, there's a tldr at the bottom. First off, let's explain where I got the data from. There's two types of world records in Mario Kart, speed runs and time trials. The speed run records rank the players with the shortest time going through multiple courses or cups. In these races the player has to compete with other computers and items. Whereas, in time trials the player races against a ghost, or a save file of a previous time trial. In this mode there are no other computers to race against and no items. I think in a truly competitive sense the speed run combinations are a better indicator of the "meta." Having to
