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The History of Tetris World Records
Summoning Salt's roughly two-hour documentary traces the history of Tetris world records, from early play through the modern competitive scene. It is a long, well-researched narrative about the players and techniques that pushed the records.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a thorough, well-researched history, and one commenter finds such videos more exhaustive than Wikipedia's sourced articles.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Summoning Salt
- Topic
- tetris world records
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The youtube channel Summoning Salt made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records: [VIDEO]
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