Roblox Player Proves World Record Winners Were Actually Frauds

"As reports, Quinten was competing for the world record in a Roblox game called Ultimate Easy Obby that has over 100,000 reviews. It's a zany, single-player obstacle course similar to something you might find in and was published by Roblox in partnership with the Guinness World Record company. Last month, Quinten secured a time of 05:48:96 following an "insane back-and-forth battle" with another Roblox speedrunner. It was the result of tons of time spent "optimizing every corner and jump," the 18-year-old Belgian wrote on Reddit."

"But then something bizarre happened. Quinten's speedrun record was quickly beaten by three other random Roblox accounts. And not just by a little bit but six whole seconds. "For context: a 6-second gap on a speedrun this optimized is physically impossible," they wrote. "It was heartbreaking to see a week of grinding ruined by scripts." Undeterred, Quinten decided to speedrun an investigation into the mysterious rivals to find proof of the suspected cheating."

"This evidence fell into three main buckets. The first was bogus time stamps. Ultimate Easy Obby features a linear obstacle course consisting of 50 stages, but some of the mystery accounts' timestamps were out of order. The new world record holder was also missing a "digital receipt" of ever having actually completed the race. "This proved he never actually touched the finish line trigger; he likely teleported a coordinate script to the end-game lobby, bypassing the verification check," Quinten wrote."

An 18-year-old Belgian speedrunner named Quinten achieved a 05:48:96 time in Ultimate Easy Obby after extensive optimization. Three other accounts later posted times six seconds faster, a gap deemed physically impossible for such a refined run. Quinten investigated and found evidence in three areas: out-of-order or bogus timestamps, missing digital receipts of completion, and animation/frame inconsistencies. One rival lacked a finish-trigger receipt and appeared to have used a coordinate teleport script to bypass verification. Frame-by-frame analysis revealed movement anomalies consistent with scripted manipulation, demonstrating the rival runs were not legitimate.

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