World of Goo History WRs

Set on 16th April 2026 4:06 UTC+10:00

Turns out strong thwacks are more optimal here than frequent thwacking
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Set on 10th April 2026 23:39 UTC+10:00

Finally I beat DemonGamer at something else :)
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Set on 3rd April 2026 15:19 UTC+10:00
I did not know there were more improvements to strategies until I stumbled on this improvement on Welcoming Unit. I was just messing around to find a consistent way to beat Welcoming Unit faster to use it in full-game runs. Did not expect to find OCD time WR strategy.
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Set on 3rd April 2026 23:04 UTC+10:00
Just preformed my OCD time WR strat as fast as possible.
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用了新方法，比较吃运气
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Set on 29th March 2026 14:37 UTC+10:00

The game is cut off at the bottom because my screen resolution is now 1920x1200 instead of 1920x1080, I played the game in 1920x1080 yesterday and in 1920x1200 today and forgot to properly align the game capture in OBS before recording my session.
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Set on 29th March 2026 17:30 UTC+10:00

2nd in a day. I realized 23s record was easy to beat while grinding the goal time WR. Still very improvable, up to 19-18s, or even may get 1-2s off from goal time WR if someone gets lucky enough.
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Set on 12th March 19:05 UTC+10:00 without video, performed on video on 13th March 18:32 UTC+10:00

Yeah, once again, originally record was set without a video. This time I was in the VC with my friend on discord and was casually grinding it, without thinking I'll get it, and I got it on accident. That was the funniest accident ever and the best fluke I've ever had in this game. After setting the record after ~20-30 minutes of playtime this day, it took me ~4 hours of playtime in total to do it again. Didn't say about it before just because I didnt want to be laughed on due to not recording myself getting an "impossible" record. But noy y'all know the truth.
Anyways, that was the 1st extreme record of mine that will stay on leaderboards forever. An insane and extremely rare achievement.
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8 is possible but I prefer not to loose my sanity
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Set on 17:47 UTC+10:00

I think I got a curse. When I set Weather Vane WR, I did it without a video 2 times, when I set Fly Away Little Ones OCD WR (0:09) turned out I didnt have a video on it. And here, when I switched to Bandicam because when I was recording using OBS the game was lagging, it recorded the music I was listening to on my headphones (the WoG audio is usually played on my speakers). So, I muted the audio.
The record itself is not hard at all, like BatET OCD 15s, but it still took me like 2 days to beat and ~3-4 hours of playtime in total. Most likely the record will get improved in the future.
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I just switched to playing on a diffrent resolution and now my thwacking is on crack
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This record was the main reason I switched to a non-widescreen resolution. If you are using widescreen the camera is more zoomed in, which makes thwacking significantly harder.
Anyway wow 2 world records in one day :o
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From Bilibili:

微调了一下最后送球的方法
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4 consecutive hours of grinding and many unlucky attempts. One of my hardest accomplishments in this game and my first 'moves' world record.

Regarding the level, it was not an enjoyable experience. Trying to egnite the structure with the fuse was a tedious process, and to thwack a 2 stranded albino line is not an easy task. Pretty much everything after that is much easier, but very chokable.
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Set on 1st Sep 2023 20:50 UTC+10:00

Accurate time: 10.22s
This is the only record I had to redo 3 times just because I wasn't recording or the video was bad. Anyways, new WR.
9s is certainly possible.
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Sent on August 30, 2023

Holy damn. I didn't expect this to come so fast today. I tied the record last winter but eventually quit because of demotivation and inconsistency. For some reason today I decided to throw some attempts at it, and to my surprise it didn't even take me 10 minutes!

The record itself barely reaches the 12 second mark, almost off by a couple of milliseconds.
I'm so happy to finally have this off my chest!
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From Bilibili:

要点：先搭10步，再稍向右上吹笛子，然后搭8步够到最顶上的云。吹笛子配合砸框直到气球被叫醒为止，迅速搭建两个气球后使被断的支架到达右边两朵云的中间，叫醒足够多的粘粘球后把支架砸到管道。
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From email:

Set on 17 Jul 11:54 UTC+8:00

I really didn't think it would be realized. This is a true extreme record, and quite possibly the most extreme of all time records. But looking back there is still room for improvement in speed. I think the key to success is to move the ball (especially the last ball) must be fast and accurate.
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(i was in voice chat with friends)
Set on 12th July 2023, 23:50 UTC+10:00
The suffering came to the end.
This is one of the most annoying WRs I ever tried to set. There were fails due to bad thwacking, timebigs and attaching the bomb to structure on the right on accident. It was painful.
2 moves or less is possible, but you have to do the 0 move start, and that's extreme. But doable.
My next target is the highest tower record.
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From email:

Set on 12 July 19:17 UTC+8:00
To gain the record, it only takes a little more effort than collecting 10 balls in 5s in the level. In fact, it is a lot easier than Goal 4s.

From Bilibili:

肝一小时肝出来的纪录。比小峡谷4s和服务器农场4s都简单，有一定的容错率，可以看到视频中有两个失误。
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Set on 21 June, 13:33 UTC+10:00
One of the hardest records in WoG history.
This record is an extreme combination of luck and skill, if you have bad luck (goos are not close enough to pipe, to few common goos, timebugs too close to goos e.t.c.) - you lost. Building speed must be almost perfect. It took me 6k+ restarts and 9 months to get the run.
Harder than TSF 4s? Maybe.
9s possible? I'm not sure.
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From Bilibili:

本来是没想用这种方法的，但是弹火的时候球碰巧落到了支架右边，这局比较幸运，成功利用不稳定结构拆出了三角支架，多收了两球。

如果把支架弹到左边还可以再多收一球，但因为风险有点大没敢尝试。
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Set on 24th February, 2023, 17:05 UTC+10

Well, this WR required some thinking outside of the box.
I had thoughts of detaching one of the evil eyes by the starting structure and tried to do so, but no success. This time, I did this pretty quickly.
0m is impossible.
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Set on 19th February 2023, 12:38 UTC+10
Accurate time: 15.7s
An hour before the WR, I collected 28 gooballs in 15s because I pressed continue button too early on accident. But after that pure 15s didn't take too long.
14s is possible, but very extreme, like TSF 4s.
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From Bilibili:

方法是 peter B 打的 10s 是一样的，我做了一点优化，主要在两点，一个是从两边都扔红球让支架尽快吸上管道，另一个是扔绿球尽可能直接扔到管道口（但是视频里这一步只成功了 5 个球，最后一个还是耽误了一点时间，还好还是成功 9s 了）。

这关基本就是看运气，每一步都很看运气。然后我觉得这关 8s 是可行的。

第一步运用了 collision fling/double fling 的技巧。当 bit、pilot 这类可 fling 的球与几何物体碰撞时，或者球在与几何物体接触（即使此时球在支架上也可行）的情况下被发射后，它短时间内可以再一次被选中并发射。


From email:

It was the same strategy as ptr231's 10s record but I tried to make some optimization. I threw pilots right then left in order to make the strand reach the pipe quicker. I also tried to control the direction I throw bits(throw up and weaken the force to some extent) to make them directly fly into the pipe instead of landing on the strand (although it is very hard and luck-based and the 6th ball in the video didn't succeed). This level is very luck-based. I think 8s is possible and 7s is impossible.

I use a trick called 'double fling' where a flug ball can be regrabbed as it launches allowing for a 2nd fling in mid-air. The regrab only works when the ball is in contact with geometry.
See this tutorial: https://youtu.be/xKkNdWpqOxM
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From email:

The possibility of this record was first proposed by dahkjdas. He spent a lot of time on it. He once achieved the de facto fastest record for this level, only one frame more than 4s. But then he couldn't do better. Knowing this, I tried to break it last month. However, I achieved countless 5s, but never achieved 4s. We agreed that there was a huge barrier between the 4s and 5s, and that the 4s was extremely difficult. After that, I took some time off. Recently, after switching to a better mouse, I thought about the level again and tried to break it again. Fortunately, this time I succeeded.
To achieve this record, the speed of both building and moving the ball must be close to the limit. So this is probably one of the most difficult time records to achieve.
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Set on 20 Aug 14:32 UTC+10:00

New strat: make 3 moves to the sleeping gooballs, so these goos will wake up pretty fast if you push the structure to the bottom. It obliterates RNG in this level. Then thwack the structure to the top, but it`s not that simple. You should thwack it to probably the highest humanly possible position for it. The structure should be slightly on the left, and the ball at the bottom left should be on the platform itself, not on its side, otherwise the tower will not reach the pipe.
This strategy has a great potential. 3 last moves should be pretty precise, which is the reason of small speed in the end. Limit of the level is at 20s or less with this strat.
I consider this record as a door to the room for improvement, so anyone, even not really skilled player can try beating this. With enough practice, you can become consistent at it. Good luck!
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From Bilibili:

新世界纪录！
采用了横向搭建的策略，不知道方法上有没有更快。
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From Bilibili:

因为是细节拉锯关，所以这个纪录依旧没有封盘，个人极限完全可以在25秒以内。
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From email:

Set on 17 Aug 15:00 UTC+10:00

When I did it, I literally didn't want to believe. This journey is tough not in the physical, but in the mental way. I had so many fails in the end, mostly because of nerves and another problem that will be mentioned in the story of this legendary record.

I started grinding for this record in November 2021, before my 14th birthday. At first I planned to use only a shaking bug to do this since I thought it was possible, but actually it is, I just didn't know about a certain strategy. I released a video with my best attempt of the record back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KQKO-DAqk
Here the main part of the record story begins. Summer vacation began, but I recalled this record and started grinding once again. This time, I finally had a working strat for this level: use shaking bug to pull the albino goo out of the wheel, speedclick an ivy gooball, detach an albino goo from this structure using the speedclicked gooball, throw that goo in the wheel, collect all the gooballs. But I had another problem: throwing gooballs back in the wheel is way too risky. What I have to do in this case to prevent albino goo from dying?
In solving this problem, Liyuan helped me a lot with this screenshot:



And... I started grinding once again, after a break. This time, I had another issue: mouse wheel. When I raged from failing seemingly perfect attempt of a record on Tower of Goo, I accidentally broke the mouse wheel, meaning collecting the speedclicked gooball would be tough. I knew about an alternative method of moving a speedclicked gooball, but I didn't want to pull it off just because I am recording with Bandicam, not with Fraps, so the recording just stops when switching WoG from fullscreen to windowed mode. That's why I failed another dozen of good attempts.
And, after some time, I decided to use 2 mice just to pull off the record: one for most of the run and another just to get that speedclicked ball into the pipe, I guess you won't mind that fact. At first, I couldn't get lucky enough attempt in the beginning, until I finally got this run: https://youtu.be/hJmosnEyDXk .
Run breakdown:
In the beginning of the run, I am setting up the structure for the shaking bug and waiting for the ball to get outside of the wheel, which took slightly less than a half of the time in the run. It finally gets outside at 10:54. Then, I am making 2 separate strands: 1st with the ball I am going to speedclick and 2nd with the rest of ivy balls. Surprisingly, gooball got speedclicked very fast, I didn't expect that. Speedlicking part (almost) ends at 15:32, after that part I am speedclicking the gooball more to break the strands since the current ball force wasn`t enough to break them. Real strand breaking part begins at 19:09. At 22:31 2 strands and Liyuan`s strat suggestion come in handy. After that, I just thwack the albino triangle with the albino ball and collect all the goos on the level.
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From email:

New WR. Set on 27th Jul 2022,20:18 UTC+8:00

I thought 11s was the fastest before. However, later I tried this level again and achieved 11s several times, which made me reconsider the possibility of going faster. I spent a lot of time trying to get to 10s, and after I had achieved 11s many times (about 50), I finally got to 10s. This huge difficulty gap makes me sure that 10s is a limit and 9s is impossible.

The attempt in this video has a small method improvement, see my bilibilli channel for details.

From bilibili:

10s应该是这关的极限了。感觉刷这关的时间更注重的是方法，对手速的要求比较低。方法得当11s十分轻松

开局拆搭气球要求快速准确，气球搭建位置在美人球与地面交点作的地面的垂线上，中心点偏下位置。如果感觉把握不准就直接对准美人球的嘴唇中心。目的是确保使美人球弹跳起来。弹跳的时候不能过高也不能过低，过高会增加球的滞空时间，过低极易把气球搭建到支架上。

搭建气球后再迅速拆下，向右方快速连续敲击美人球，使其不与支架和墙壁接触刚好从右方洞口落下。如果美人球跳太高可以适当往下砸球。之后美人球接触下方支架后向左弹，这时候要用气球砸球控制，最好在球有一定高度时砸到使球竖直下落，并使其与挡板最右方接触（这一步是改进后的方法，有一定操作难度，能快多少不知道。原方法是在球下落的时候下砸挡板使其尽量位于低处，再让球落到挡板上），再连续往下砸让她竖直下落。ivy醒后迅速拆下。

收尾阶段十分讲究运气。如果子球卡在齿轮上或者进球过慢都可能使过关时间慢个1-2s。先在common框的左边搭一个ivy。如果子球卡在齿轮处可以在拿起另一个ivy之后快速点击卡住的部位一两次（当然最好不要卡住）。再用另一个ivy向右搭建。值得注意的是最后搭的ivy如果与三个球相连可能使进球的速度快一点，但同时也有够不到管道的风险。解决办法就是尽量使多出来的一条支架与common支架左上方的球相连，并且慢一点搭建来保证准确度。由于子球的滞空时间，最后的ivy搭建稍慢对过关时间影响还是比较小的。

重试的时候可以把鼠标移动到Esc菜单重试按钮的最右方来缩短鼠标移动距离。
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Set on 20th Jul 2022, 10:18 UTC+10:00

I did something that was unthinkable in my childhood. I just can't believe I did it. It took me 2 days in total, ~3.5 hours of videos with just attempts to beat the WR. 23s may be possible, but it is questionable; ending and building speed matter. Possibility of just beating the level without OCD in 16 seconds is also questionable, may be possible with enough luck in the end, but I am not aiming to beat this one, not enough speed and consistency for it.
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