About

Summoning Salt is an American speedrunner and YouTuber best known for his videos detailing the world record progression for the fastest speedruns of some of the most commonly speedrun games online.

History

Summoning Salt has been speedrunning since at least January of 2016. His earliest known videos show him playing 1987's Mike Tyson's Punch-out!!. On his speedrun.com^[4] profile, the earliest dated video is of him beating Punch-out!! in 16:31 on January 18th, 2016 (shown below, left). His earliest listed video shows him beating it in 16:08 (shown below, right).

On October 1st, 2016, he posted his time beating Mike Tyson in the game in 2:05.97, which is the world record for defeating Mike Tyson and the only known run to do it in sub-2:06 (shown below, left). On January 7th, 2017, he uploaded a video documenting the progression of the World Record for defeating Mike Tyson, including himself at the end. This video gained over 544,000 views (shown below, right). He currently holds several world records related to speedrunning the game.^[4]

After the success of that video, Summoning Salt turned "World Record Progression" videos into a series that proved very popular. His next video, detailing the speed run progression of Super Mario Bros., gained over 1.1 million views (shown below, left). A video of him tracking the Super Mario 64 120-star record progression also gained over 1.1 million views.

Online Presence

Summoning Salt has over 263,000 YouTube subscribers,^[1] 8,500 Twitch followers,^[2] and 4,200 Twitter followers.^[3] He has submitted multiple runs to Speedrun.com, particularly for Mike Tyson's Punch-out!!, as well as Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart 64.

Reputation

Summoning Salt's videos have captured the attention of the gaming community and some have attracted media attention. Techspot^[5] covered Salt's video on the speedrunning history of Super Mario Bros. 4-2 level, a crucial level for speedrunners. Kotaku^[6] covered his video on the speedrunning history of Choco Mountain from Mario Kart 64. In September of 2017, the AV Club^[7] wrote an article about Summoning Salt's World Record Progression series, saying:

Using a combination of archival footage, screenshots from early-2000s message boards, and more recent Twitch streams, Summoning Salt provides an impressive amount of detail on these records, especially considering the pace at which he’s producing videos.

Search Interest

External References