I Beat A World Record In Minecraft To Prove They’re FAKE

Hello I’m if ya ex like and when I was younger one of my favorite things to read was the Guinness Book of World Records I love that there was an agency out there dedicated to finding the weirdest or the most impressive human behaviors and then verifying that they

Done it the biggest the best or the longest of any human ever I thought it was so cool there was just an agency dedicated to finding you know like these humans that were better than anyone else at their task and then rewarding them with a world record and showing us some

Of the best World Records that found however as you get a little bit older you know these things start to change a little bit and one of the interesting variants off the Guinness World Record was the fact that they started bringing out something called the game edition

And this gamer edition I didn’t like the first when I read but it seems as though it’s gone consistently downhill since then and it started maybe question even the Guinness agency themselves so I want to make this video just to make you realize exactly what the business model

Is behind Guinness World Records and exactly how the records aren’t actually records they’re more records especially in the game category because more and more they’ve gone from actually trying to verify or certify records to try to cash in on youtubers for example you know you see a bunch of them you see it

Like mentioned on the cover even but you see it on the websites the first thing you want to mention like youtubers love our book and you will sue but when you actually dive into some of the records you start to see really ridiculous stuff such as one of the records is tallest

Staircase built in Minecraft Console in one minute so it’s like okay that seems like it could be an interesting record but let me show you this this was the thing that immediately made me realize something was up so here is the video they uploaded this they haven’t removed

This to their YouTube channel so they got ali-a who you know not to criticize the skills as a youtuber but he’s not known as like a pro player and he’s known as a player off you know mostly other games not a Minecraft you know youtuber at that just a youtuber off big

Games in general and it’s like okay that’s your first warning sign like so they just got a random youtuber and said you know mine crafts were popular maybe a tempter more record of that but you know he must have been practicing a long time for this right I’m looking forward

To seeing his attempt so they’ve picked minecraft PlayStation 4 Edition which is a slightly interesting choice in my opinion because I mean like if you’re gonna pick a version for a world record you’ve probably picked the most popular version a bedrock or Java which is the one most people often know as minecraft

But PlayStation 4 edition okay kind of weird already I’m gonna use the flying technique he’s uh worked out that while and creative you can fly on the fly there that’s his pro tip if you want to temp this record remember to use flying don’t just walk up at manually that’s that’s kind of

Crazy that’s a cure halfway already oh my gosh what does no oh my oh so maybe we can just make fun of like youtubers as a whole for that one but like oh no the clock is running down and you’re stair making what the oh my god this is so

Intense it’s making stairs Micro for 60 seconds – it’s not like this is a giant thing it’s a six sixty second task you may be twenty seconds for it and you’re finding this intense kind of concerning but you know you know like a lot of gaming youtubers like to be loud and

Abrasive so we won’t hold it against the record because that’s gonna be great right besides the fact that there were a lot of like delete some places there that didn’t look like a particularly impressive run but I mean we’ll see the score right just one thing we need you

To do before we reveal the answer results we need you to walk from the bottom of the staircase top and back down again just that the snake is is complete come Saturday so I can now reveal that the heights of the staircase I mentioned in the box is 17

There was a minimum for this record and that minima was yes there was a minimum for the record and it was 10 staircase is placed in a minute 17 is the record here and might be like okay well I mean that’s that’s that’s pretty good I’m sure like you know for some people

That’s impressive but like for a world record 17 is the standard we’re setting with 10 being the minimum imagine if 10 was the record that’ll be one every six seconds you could do that significantly faster in survival even if you had to get the wood in the attempt and it’s like oh okay

Sure I guess that’s just how it is so the record apparently still stands to this day 17 blocks high is the record although it’s matched by it someone else apparently someone got the exact same record so it has it turns out you know famous youtuber still gets to be record

Holder and I’m not the only one who dislikes this I don’t just make fun of like you know I’m sure who’s offered some money and opportunity to you know be like oh yes shop any promotional video he for he was doing quite well but as you can see the maturity people who

Saw this not like it’s just not not me my keen minecraft died everyone who sees this is like what did we just watch what was that what was that this is so intense 17 stairs in a minute record and if you read some of the comments you can

See like this is stupid if you want to make real Minecraft changes talk people know the game and I don’t think it’s such an a reasonable thing to say you know if you want to set world records get people who play the game that you’re trying to set the records for like they

Didn’t make me I’m crazy on that one this is like one of the most incompetent things I’ve seen all you got to do is like even if you got a minecraft youtuber it’d be better than that right but you know ideally bring in a pro minecraft player so on who is really

Good at the precision movements as opposed to some who maybe hasn’t played minecraft in a very long time or ever played it on console is what’s what seem to be there so there’s a lot of people who had the exact same thing is this a joke dumbest video easiest things to

Minecraft is it a joke every I got 20 I got 37 on the on the first attempt so many people immediately destroyed this but yet if you look at the record 20 second if no 2015 is when the record was set and it’s never been beaten so already this this

This immediately load my faith in you know the idea of a Guinness World Record and so it’s not only bad from in my opinion that they put out the video saying this is the tallest staircase built in a minute even though it’s clearly people who must have done better than that by accident

Or just while building so it’s not actually a world record it’s absurd that they passed off as a world record and it’s absurd that despite all of the people who have you know said something to them like you know I’ve done better than this you know here’s a video of me

Doing better than this they haven’t gone out one sought the you know the answer to that instead they want people to come to them they’re like oh if you think you can beat this why not try and apply to beat it why not try and be the person

With the tallest stick I spent a minute and then you like so I mean surely someone must applied and yes actually more people have applied so what you’re seeing in the background right now is my obviously sped up attempt to beat this record and despite the fact that this

Was something I hadn’t really played a lot of I don’t use a PlayStation 4 controller very often but despite that fact I managed to get just over 20 on my very first go and you know just in case you’re like well that wasn’t the intensity of a situation where you know

You’ve got to talk live about how hard it is to place staircases and 180 you know it’s a it’s really intense it’s crazy look at those care look at those sheep you know in case you think of that then let’s dive into this live and let’s

Show you that it is in fact doable so let’s hop into a creative world start the timer and then show you how possible this is okay the timers started let’s go grab our wooden stairs as fast we can this is actually gone hardik they’re in different place and let’s show you just

How fast and easily we can do this even when we’re talking the whole time like oh I got it so intense look at this oh we placed one slightly sideways but it’s fine apparently according to the record it probably shouldn’t be but according to the thing we saw there it’s all good

But yeah this is as simple as it is all you have to do is go left and then go right it doesn’t matter if you make tiny mess-ups as long as it is technically walkable from top to bottom which it will be by the time we’re done here and

Yeah this is actually again you can see it’s quite simple I don’t play playstation 4 I played with a controller but I really don’t like the PlayStation 4 controller over the Xbox one but personal preference whatever but you can see how like oh yeah each of these staircases doesn’t take very long

And this is just me casually doing it this isn’t me having Pretz for any amount of time and that’s why I don’t believe that there was any prep done before that record you know a real impressive world-record attempt should have some amount offer you know preparation or some amount of anything

Really done before it because that’s how these things should go or in the last five seconds it’s so intense can I place them will I start breaking blocks they’ve already placed I don’t know for sure but there we go so let’s not count the last one because have you heard that

Timer went off just before the end there so now let’s count how many stairs Oh actually let’s confirm it’s legitimate so as you can see we can in fact walk all the way from the top to the bottom of this we had a few sideways staircases

In there but it’s entirely fine in case your sister just how many stair cases it is team twenty twenty one twenty it’s twenty two staircases in a minute which was actually the score I got when I tried this about a couple of years ago so I haven’t proved any amount at

PlayStation four edition I could do this in Xbox but I want this to be a perfect comparison so we’ll just say 2022 staircases in a minute we beat the world record by five wow that’s amazing right I’m gonna get a world record because I just did this live video this proof you

Know I’ve done it twice now I’ve done it multiple times got lots of different forms of evidence I have a capture card I’m gonna lucky few where she can record my gameplay so let’s send it off to Guinness was what I assumed a couple years ago so on the Guinness website

They do actually have a place where you can apply to set or break records so that you know they can have people come into them they don’t go and verify most these things unless there’s like a big company contract if you have a record you think you’ve broken you have to go

To them so they can verify that you did that makes sense in my opinion short why not and how long do they take to do that well apparently according to this roughly 12 weeks so yeah I thought the fact that they basically have free options and the one where it doesn’t

Cost you money is all the way there in the corner like okay use the pleb option when you time is not pressing but you have a talent you want to share eventually seems a bit of a weird thing to do but you know I guess there’s lots

Of corporations that want to do local contracts and have like a person come over that would cost some real money right so fine you know to spend the time make the thing happen I sent up an application in December of 2017 dear Andrew we are pleased to inform you that

Your record application for tallest staircase built in one minute in minecraft console has been received and you do not do anything further at this stage we have attached the terms and conditions of record breaking which we advise you read carefully again we you can view your application via the

Website and then it’s got the application ID and then we will aim to process your claim in 12 weeks they will aim to sow 12 weeks is not just that this is how long it might take a max you know I used to work in industries where some things would just

Take a really long time because if you stole for a bit you know then you had more theoretical time you could deliver in like you know three weeks it’d be impressive but no they ain’t at processor in 12 weeks but that’s not guaranteed twelve weeks is the kind of

Estimate the kind of rough guarantee however if you have a agent claims which require an immediate answer you can use the priority service which ensures your record application is assessed by our expert team in just five working days and you can upgrade priority anytime even though you’ve submitted this free

You can upgrade priority that’s real nice of you how much is priority you might be questioning well it’s fast if you choose the protein application service they’ll do it within five working days the amount that I think is reasonable for any record application this is your business your whole business is based

Around checking these world records for the purposes of making those books right so surely surely this is the like this should be your priority as a business but no their priority is 12 weeks like do whatever you want there unless you pay us some money in which case they’ll take you 12 weeks

Apparently it’s also assisted and you can ask questions about your application through the correspondence function and you actually get our answers or updates in two working days as opposed to two weeks for normal people you have the tiniest question two weeks unless you buy this service because Oh has it not

Been mentioned it has a price attached it’s five hundred pounds or eight hundred US dollars or six hundred and thirty euros that is crazy high just to check your stuff in five days just to speed up the admin time on that it’s going to cost you a hundred dollars u.s.

Unless it’s a new record in which case it’s a thousand dollars luckily for us we’re going for an existing one we get that really cheap eight hundred US dollar price and you might be like my god that’s absurdly steep like if you want to actually get your record review

It’s gonna cost you eight hundred US because you don’t have mine so the fourth of December 2017 was when they sent you know that emailed me confirming applications been received and in about twelve weeks I could actually confirm it send my details but we never got to that

Stage because you’re not happened yeah they never got around to it you know twelve weeks is just the kind of estimated time so what instead happened so it took thirteen and a half months for a response but what I got was application reference than a number dear Andrew your application for tallest

Staircase built in one minute and minecraft console has expired and we can reactivate send-off again but obviously it’s gonna have that same 12-week waiting period I looked into that and it’s like oh so that that’s pretty crazy basically they’re saying well I mean you should have paid I mean if you want to

Be famous or if you’re gonna mention that then really I think that means that you’d be a great fit for the priority application service so you know let’s whip together eight hundred dollars it’s a lot but it might be worth it except no a hundred US dollars just gets you to

The second phase where there’s evidence review which is gonna take twelve weeks by default unless you pray for priority where it takes five working days as opposed to the usual twelve weeks and yeah it’s got an extra six hundred and fifty US dollars so yeah basically all in we’re talking fourteen hundred and

Fifty US dollars just to get this you know thing reviewed and that is the reason why in case you’re curious like so isn’t it kind of within all this time known has beaten this record as it turns out pretty much no one can get to the phase where they’ll accept the record

Because they just deny applications for it and you know maybe that would be different if we paid maybe it wouldn’t be the same maybe if we paid the money it would be taken away but is that any better I’m not too sure it’s absurd to me that the

Average waiting time for a world record is six you know months you know twelve weeks plus twelve weeks that’s three months each time plus any delays that might happen because of seasonal Barrett says that doesn’t seem to me like a you know a body that is designed to be

Checking World Records should be all about and to be honest it’s not really their whole job you might think oh yeah Guinness World Records their whole thing is about Guinness World Records know you can even see like on their main webpage records is one of their options but

Business solutions is another big one what they often do is they’ll pond with businesses to make world records as in they’ll just try and do something which hasn’t been number four call it world record put it in the book that’s a form of marketing for example they they did a

World record with WestJet and no one actually do really like that was the largest circular projection and greatest light output in a projected image what does that record mean how is anyone ever going to attempt to beat that and the answer is like probably not right so

They can keep the world record for almost ever get them 750,000 YouTube views those 1.1 million Facebook video views and the point is it’s a promotion tool these records offer promotion in terms of businesses and when it comes to individual people you know like the the people that they’re trying to advertise

For it’s mostly going off your ego right because the service which costs fourteen hundred fifty US dollars all in all once you do both priorities our systems will actually be self-serve there’s no person that comes out to check it there’s none of that you verify all of that yourself

And they’ll just say oh yeah this is the best and yeah that’s that’s how they make their money they make their money from doing these managed services for brands basically doing corporate deals with the the reputation they have for being a world records agency they use

The same thing to feed your eco pay a lot of money and be the best at something in the world you know I’ll give you a you know a certificate for something but it doesn’t mean as much because you assume Guinness world record means a bunch and then there’s standard

Applications the actually applying for records thing isn’t their main concern like why would they care why would they need to what is the point in verifying all these individual records for the tallest staircase ever when instead they can have one that promotes those other services which is why you see a bunch of

Really absurd records I should have mentioned but there’s there’s a bunch of ones here like most views for a dedicated minecraft video channel I mean but it’s not a dedicated minecraft video channel right like maybe at some point the 19th of January 2018 but even then I don’t think the channel was dedicated

Purely to Minecraft so you mean majority minecraft well now it’s definitely not that and I think like the point is is like okay so you give someone you know record cuz they’ve got 11 billion views like good on him but what is this record what does it mean how could you ever

Beat this like it doesn’t really make too much sense because yeah a lot of these records are given to people who are celebrities or famous or big companies there to kind of do something and one way for examples of this is it’s not just one record it’s not just this

Tool of staircase there’s fastest time to build a house in minecraft survival mode the fastest time to build a house in Minecraft in survival mode is 3 minutes 24 seconds achieve by Christopher rush Germany in Berlin Germany on the 4th of June 2018 what is a house for this definition like what

Platform and minecraft is that does it not say ok that’s that’s fair enough and it’s just like ok so well records really at this point mean you did a thing and we can’t prove that anyone else did it faster except even then it’s not we can’t prove that it’s that no one

Else is knocking on our doors to prove it or paying us money to prove it and there for it’s a world record I honestly came to realize during the course of researching this video the Guinness World Records and most more records agencies they don’t exist because they

Want to catalog the best in human behavior it’s not like these various leaderboards and these various speedrunning sites which are you know really built and purest for their game instead it exists as a hey did you have money would you like to be the best at something we can facilitate that

So yeah maybe this is just one of those things where as you get older you realize how the world really was you know like you like to believe there are things are perfect and well put together but the truth is lots of things need to exist with businesses and a lot of

People have had their egos hugely boosted by the service and I think that’s fine I think that’s even great some people that might really help them but as someone who loves seeing the best that humans can do that is not what you’re gonna find from the Guinness

World Records and if you want to see great minecraft records for instance what I would recommend checking out instead is a website like speed run calm this is a community dedicated to speedrunning doing the fastest of any particular category for games so minecraft console the anypercent the

Glitch set seed someone’s done that in 60 minutes you can confirm they have you have to submit video proof and there’s not just one leaderboard other you can see how many people have gone for the any percent glitchless minecraft speed record there’s a really good one point

Six point four seed that’s why so many people have gone for it by the way but there’s not just one leader board or one leader board for any percent without you know like with using glitches which is much faster of course or for all achievements of all advancements but

There’s also a whole bunch of other different levels or different things such as who is the fastest to obtain an emerald from starting up the world as it turns out three seconds is the record from the singaporean man let’s let’s watch this foe clip Ashley so he spawned

Into the world and oh that’s how he’s gonna do eet raids and you finally can trade potatoes for three point one five seconds that’s the record but like I think this is a real like dead let you know there’s no R we’re gonna take money for the good services there’s no oh yeah

You tubers get to do their own specific boards because you know here’s the truth if you know as a youtuber someone who is in the category it would be nice if you know Guinness came off me and said hey we’d like to feed your ego and you know

Promote your channel you promote us a little bit like they’ve done with so many others but the reason I don’t think that I would enjoy that but I don’t think that’s actually benefiting you know the gaming world at large that’s moving you know the game forward

In case of Minecraft or in the case of the gaming world as a whole but what I do think is cool is when there’s this you know no BS no priority you know you know business solution service that’s just like hey what we can do for you is

If you prove that you have done this if you prove you’ve done this without cheats if you verify this stand that then we’ll have a leaderboard where people can compete for the very fastest their speedruns for all sorts of games and I’ve been wondering for a while now

Should I go for an actual world record on an actual site like this as opposed to Guinness mob because again at first this video was gonna be here’s my Guinness world record that I told you went and got I thought it’d be an actual

Way to show you how to get them but it turned into is oh yeah no you you didn’t pay money so good sorry about that friend the one that I was considering going for was the any percent glitchless in Minecraft 1.6.4 I figured it’d be

Kind of fun because like if you look at the variants maybe could see like you know where we’ll become on the list would be be top 30 top 20 top 10 could we get the number 1 I think it’d be fun let me know if you want to see that in

The comments down below I hope you’ll enjoy this video hope it didn’t ruin your childhoods like it ruined mine and I guess I hope I’ll see you all in a different on also thanks to the editor this was like the worst thing get it together but I hope you all enjoyed the

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