Who Is The Best Redstoner?

This is Mumbo Jumbo. He’s the biggest redstone  YouTuber and is widely considered by most players   to be the best redstoner. But this is actually  not true. Now don’t get me wrong, Mumbo is   brilliant at making redstone both entertaining and  accessible. But there are people who make far more   complex and advanced redstone

Now, before people rush off to the comments  with pitch forks and torches, this isn’t slander,   Mumbo has even said this himself. “I am  not actually the best at redstone”. So,   if Mumbo isn’t the best redstoner, then who is?  Crafty: *gasp* Purple, is it… meee? No Crafty,  

It’s not you. *Crafty hysterically crying*  Mattbattwings: What about me? Where are you   guys even coming from?. Anyway, as someone  who’s been redstoning for over 10 years now   I feel that I can at least attempt to give a  somewhat decent answer. And the award for best  

Redstoner goes to… nobody. Now, I know, that’s  not a very satisfying answer, so let me explain.   The problem lies with the question itself, “who is  THE best redstoner?”. It can’t just be 1 person,   since there are different AREAS of redstone  that people specialise in. The 4 main ones  

Being technical minecraft, computational redstone,  flying machines and doors. For example, you can’t   really say a computational person is “better”  at redstone than a slimestoner, because while it   IS all redstone, the things they do ultimately  can’t be compared. It’s 2 completely different  

Skillsets, so we’re literally comparing apples to  oranges. And not to mention, each area has lots   of subcategories, and nobody does all of them.  There’s also some overlap in places, and some   redstone doesn’t fit anywhere here at all. It’s a  complicated mess. So, the ONLY way we could simply  

Point at someone and say, “Look, it’s them! That’s  THE best redstoner!”, is if 1 godlike gigachad   went on some kind of Avatar journey to perfectly  master all 4 elements! …except the “elements” are   actually the different areas of redstone. No such  person exists, so this question is unanswerable.  

Or is it? We’ve already split redstone  into 4 different areas, so logically,   we should split our question up as well. It’s  a lot more realistic to answer that way. Now,   the answers won’t be perfect, so they should  be taken with a gigantic grain of salt.  

We’ll start things off easy with piston  doors. Meet the Synergy server; a small,   but active community of Minecraft’s most talented  door makers. Redstone is pretty competitive here,   so to keep track of things, the community built  these. The world record plots. 4 gigantic museums  

Showcasing all kinds of redstone records.  There’s even a discord where everything can   be searched through text. This gives us some  objective criteria to go off, since owning lots   of world records is a pretty clear demonstration  of skill. But on its own, it’s not perfect. While  

It DOES take skill to break a record, if we just  look at someone’s record collection, then we’re   mostly measuring quantity. We’re not measuring  how difficult each record was to break. Like,   owning the record for the smallest 2×2 doesn’t  carry as much weight as smallest 10×10. So, I also  

Got the Synergy members to vote on a google form.  But Purple why did you put YOUR name as an option?   That’s biased! Welp, yeah I agree. It’s biased.  BUT THE “I” IS SILENT. To make the votes easier  

To read, I compiled them into pie charts because  I am a nerd. So, for the observer category,   which is just any door that uses observers, it’s  actually pretty close. Up there are people like   SacredRedstone, who made the smallest possible 3×3  door at just 56 blocks and is well known in the  

Door community for having made many world-firsts.  Tied with Sacred is lum3nd0 who makes a lot of   doors that strike a good balance between speed  and size, like these 3 5x5s that are ridiculously   small for how fast they are. But, pulling slightly  ahead is Myuen, who not only received the most  

Votes, but also holds over 80 world records, which  is by far the most on record that are currently   tracked. Naturally, after the observer category  comes the observerless category… because that’s…   what happens… when you don’t have… observers.  Whoever put this here, I hate you. Here,  

The results are much clearer. The community voted  overwhelmingly in favour of Armadillo28. And while   he doesn’t hold the MOST observerless records,  he won simply through the sheer quality of his   redstone. You see, Arma is a literal God at  utilising minecarts to overcome the lack of  

Observers. He holds the records for the smallest  observerless 3×3, 4×4 and 5×5, and together with   Jonny, who was also very highly voted in this  category, they hold the records for the smallest   observerless, 6×6 through 10×10. And just to flex  their dominance, these 2 gigachads released them  

All at the same time, completely sweeping the  records for the bigger NxN doors. Though for   a lot of people, size doesn’t matter. It’s the  speed that counts ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) That’s where the   0-tick category comes in. And the votes here are  pretty unanimous. The community voted Alugia7  

As the best 0 tick door maker, and with good  reason. He simply holds far more speed records   than anybody else, and the community knows him  to have an extremely deep knowledge of 0 ticks.   Now it’s time for technical Minecraft. And  this is where things get difficult. For doors,  

Everything was organised for us into nice,  simple, unambiguous categories. But in Technical   Minecraft, things don’t always fit neatly into 1  simple category, and there are way more things to   compare for, that aren’t always measurable. Sure,  we can measure things like lag-friendliness and  

The drop rates of farms, but for mob farms, well  the fastest solution is almost always portal spam.   That’s not very complex. And you can’t properly  measure other important things, like how easy   something is to build in survival. It’s way too  subjective. The most you could do is ask for the   TechMC community’s opinions.

Yeah… everyone had  a different answer, because this area of redstone   is so much more diverse than the other ones. It  doesn’t just span different kinds of redstone, it   spans different Minecraft versions. Sure, we could  keep dividing it down into smaller and smaller  

Parts, but even then, most of the comparisons we’d  draw would be meaningless. And this video would   likely drag on forever trying to answer every  single edge case. So as much as I don’t want to,   I think we’ll have to leave technical Minecraft  unanswered. It’s a tough call for flying machines  

Too, however, I do have a sneaking suspicion  of what everyone’s gonna say. Mythical Pingu.   This is actually not that surprising considering  some of the insane things he’s made, like this   working pirate ship, this TNT bomber plane, or  this giant moving tank with a missile on top!  

And now we’re back to something that’s  a bit easier to decide. Redstone logic.   And to help us out, we have several people  from the Open Redstone Engineering discord.   Sammyuri. A redstoner whose skills speak  for themselves. He made the Chungus CPU.  

A powerful generalised computer in Minecraft,  that can run all kinds of programs including   Minecraft …in Minecraft …with 3D graphics! Do  I need to say any more? This video took a   really long time to put together so please do  consider subscribing. I really wanna hit 100k  

Before December 15th, which will be my 10 year  YouTube anniversary. *shocked anime gasp* 紫は私ですか