"Everyone says that I'm the fastest improver of all time," he said. "Mario has reached a point where it's so optimized and so difficult that I feel like I can't possibly try any harder and I just can't get anything going." Today, he streams five to six days each week, earning about $2,500 per month from Twitch alone. In only a year, Alvarez got his first world record and landed $1,000 in donations that day. Then, in the days after graduating from school, he began streaming his Mario 64 speedruns every night on Twitch, pulling in about $100 or $200 per month. He tried it himself in 2014, around the time of his senior high school exams. Now 22 years old, Alvarez first found speedrunning videos while grazing YouTube in Trinidad, where he grew up. Alvarez has done it in 1 hour, 39 minutes and 28 seconds, including cutscenes. It takes the average gamer about 24 hours to do this, according to, an online database of game lengths. Alvarez holds the world record for beating it: 120 stars, which essentially means conquering every goal in the game.
His primary game, the classic platformer Super Mario 64, is the most popular for speedrunners. His shift often wraps up close to 7 AM.Īlvarez is a full-time speedrunner he competes with others around the world to beat a game in the fastest time possible. At around midnight in Spain - 6 PM on the US East Coast and thus peak viewing hours - he starts streaming on Twitch under his alias cheese05. After dinner, he does a few rounds of arm and finger stretches, makes sure he's hydrated, then turns on the Nintendo 64 to practice.
Allan Alvarez can complete the game Super Mario 64 faster than anyone in the world, which means that most days he gets out of bed around 4 PM.Īfternoons consist of errands - lately, finding a new apartment and office space with reliable internet for streaming - and training with his volleyball team.
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