100 Most Prolific NES Speedrunners

I tried to rank the most prolific speedrunners on the NES. This weights towards people who run multiple games over individual game efforts. Let me know how I did!
Why me? Even though I still count as "new" to NES speedrunning by some standards, I've been pretty immersed in it over the last few years and think I have a pretty good sense on how something like this should work. Also, I've been making ranking lists all of my life for this or that, so it was only natural we wound up here.
Speedruns boards were last checked on Dec. 26th 2023, so should be up-to-date as of then.
Special thanks to miplet2, avodroc42, and miralupa for lending their excel-based expertise (those are their twitch names). Also huge thanks to speedrun dotcom and mega man leaderboards for hosting the games that they do; something like this would be impossible without them!
How this list was made: tinyurl.com/nes...
Actual spreadsheet: tinyurl.com/nes...
www.speedrun.c... - My current speedrun list
Watch live at / aaron2u2

[@JunkyardDaveArchive]

Great job, Aaron! This is especially impressive as it was a manual effort.

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much :)

[@8BitsOfJoyGames]

Hot dang, great job on putting this together. Absolute labor of love. Also, I feel honored to be on the list and surrounded by such talented gamers.

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much :)

[@ShesChardcore]

Great work on the data gathering and analysis! The NES community appreciates your efforts!

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you!

[@vespervidyaretrogaming]

Really enjoyed the list, I can't wait to climb the rankings either. Keep up the good work.

[@aaron2u243]

Thanks Vesper :)

[@HowDoUPlayGames]

You put a lot of effort into curating all these runner stats and forming this list! I love this idea, and it's a great video to watch. Thanks Aaron! Also KOEI games are amazing.

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much :)

[@professorretro3041]

Such a great list! You rock, Aaron!

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you!

[@blazingraven4959]

Killer list! That must have taken a lot of work! Love to see cool lists like this!

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you :) It was a lot of work, but glad you appreciate it!

[@Toad22484]

Thank you for the taking the time to make an awesome list with such an incredible cast of speedrunners. I honestly had no idea I would rank 1st on a list like this. I encourage each and every one on that list to keep pushing and keep breaking the NES more and more every years so more fun and amazing content like this can come out for us to talk about.

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you! Yeah, I had kind of an assumption how the top would look when I started, but totally underestimated how many quality runs you had done. One thing I hope this list does is kind of show off parts of NES speedrunning that others weren't as aware about.

[@aarontruitt]

This is really awesome! Thanks for putting this together. Tremendous work!

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much :)

[@Angrylanks]

Damn this is awesome! Huge thanks for undertaking such a big task and creating this list.

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much!

[@DestinyofaDW]

Fantastic work Aaron and thank you for sharing it! Only in the last two years or so have I learned there is such a vibrant NES gaming & speedrunnning community that has been at it for years and years! GG's everyone!

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much! Yeah, so much going on and so much still coming :)

[@black_squall]

Nice job !

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you!

[@Skoobings]

Labor of love. Great work.

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much :)

[@peco_de_guile]

Some great people on that list! What an awesome community❤

[@aaron2u243]

Salsa Shack hype!

[@DiamondLongplays]

Cool video aaron, interesting concept. I figured some of the top 10 runners due to how many boards they are and their placements

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you! Yeah, I don't think there were too many surprises near the top.

[@TheRealShrum]

Most impressive work, thank you for sharing this with the world

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you!

[@xjrigsx]

this is very cool, GGs!

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you!!!

[@kumakhan22]

This list is HOT

[@aaron2u243]

thank you :)

[@pupstud80]

Looks like this old deaf man (Me) needs to up his game 😕whenever IRL doesn't get in the way. >_< Although, Good job on taking your time putting this together. 🙂

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you! And yeah, there's a ton of bunching in this list up close to the 50th position, so just about anybody learning a new run will move up somewhere!

[@wardrich]

There's a few people on that list that I chat with all the time and had no idea they also speedran games.

[@aaron2u243]

Yeah, there are a few people who have mostly retired from speedrunning who still have a lot of accomplishments. I think Toad himself hasn't really speedrun in two years, but was just so prolific in the scene before that nobody's really pushed games in the quantity that he did back in the day.

[@wardrich]

@@aaron2u243 the biggest one for me was Rottdawg. I see him all the time, and had literally no idea he speedruns games.

[@aaron2u243]

I'm not personally familiar with him, but I'm pretty sure he stopped speedrunning a number of years ago. That might be why.

[@robunited]

👑 KING AARON 👑

[@aaron2u243]

Sultan Joe!

[@NESAtlas]

Amazing work! Thank you for your efforts

[@aaron2u243]

Thank you very much :)

[@omfgbunder2008]

Aaron I can't hear you 😢

[@aaron2u243]

Sorry if I was a little quiet. I kept trying to fix the volume but I think I was still a bit off

[@pikapikachu47]

Top 5 PogChamp

[@aaron2u243]

GG!