Wad:       TNT.wad
Complevel: 4
Date:      07/09/2026  DD/MM/YYYY
Player:    J0Y
level:     Map04
Category:  NoMo
Time:      5s 340ms
Video:     https://youtu.be/jlVhxpK1zls

Notes:
first, to explain how hard this run is i would like to explain how i was interested in this run in the first place.
this summer a community member andrea rovenski hosted a speedrun competition where we basically had to get as many
WRs as we can in TNT/plutonia in a 2 month time limit, and every official category counted in the comp, so i decided to join.
i was mainly going for nomo's because that's the category that i know how to play,
that is when i reached map04, the record i was trying to beat was 5.66 by LOD42, and it was really tough at the time to beat,
in discord i chatted about it saying "map04 tnt nomo wr is 5.66 and i got 5.69 twice 😭"
not knowing that i just fueled 4shockblast's engine to go play the map for himself,
anyway 5 minutes after i chatted my message, me and 4shock both got 5.63 basically at the same time, and this is where the war begins.
4shock got 5.57 a few hours later, beating my 5.63, in the same day i tied 4shock's time, by getting a 5.57 aswell,
but then i beat 4shock by getting a 5.54 a few hours later,
a few days have passed since i got the 5.54 wr, and it seemed that 4shock stopped playing the map entirely,
and at the time i thought that i would be finally free from this map,
but randomly out of nowhere when i woke up in the morning and checked doomworld,
i saw 4shock got a 5.51 wr, beating my previous record of 5.54,
and i was thinking "ah shit i'm gonna play this map again",
anyway i tied 4shocks wr and beat it in the same day by getting a 5.49, and i thought to myself
"alright this is getting pretty optimized i doubt that he's gonna beat me again"
oh boy how naive i was.
the next day 4shock got an INSANE time of 5.46 which at the beginning of the grind i thought was the human max,
i grinded for a few hours that day and i managed to tie the 5.46, but then i decided to stream wr attempts because i thought like why not,
that day, i streamed for     7    HOURS    STRAIGHT    playing this single 5 second map,
and at the very end of the stream i got the WR back, with a time of 5.43, and i thought that we reached the human limit,
and i slept that night feeling awesome,
but then when i woke up the next day, and i found out that 4shock beat my time of 5.43 by getting a 5.40,
like of course what did i expect,
i started doing some attempts for fun and i tied 4shocks time AGAIN by getting a 5.40 as well, in only 30 minutes of attempts
You will start to see a pattern here,
because in the same day 4shockblast got a another wr improvement, which was a 5.37, breaking the tie.
and this time was basically the knockout blow for me, i tried to beat to it but it was just too difficult,
and at the time i decided to move on to other maps to maintain my ranking in the andrea rovenski competition.
i ended up getting 3rd place on the competition by exclusively playing nomos,
anyway after that i didn't play doom for 1 month or so, but then after i got back from traveling,
i decided i should start playing this map again, and after around 2 days, and 30 minutes in the last session i finally got,
the                                                                   
.------.     .-----.     .---.   
|   ___|    /  -.   \   / .  |   
|  '--.     '-' _'  |  / /|  |   
`---.  '.      |_  <  / / |  |_  
.-   |  |   .-.  |  |/  '-'    | 
| `-'   /.-.\ `-'   /`----|  |-' 
 `----'' `-' `----''      `--'   
was finally achieved, i've come a long way to get this time, and in fact this run is 1 frame (0.03s) from perfection. (without wallruns)
i have no idea if anyone is gonna beat this but, this journey of mine is finally over, i can finally stop playing this map forever.







