Notable players - Revision history

Ais523: /* Luxidream */ the speedruns quoted were out of date – link the unseeded 0:52 as it is considerably more impressive than the others

2026-03-31T21:17:31Z

‎Luxidream: the speedruns quoted were out of date – link the unseeded 0:52 as it is considerably more impressive than the others

Umbire the Phantom: already stated, tidy up some

2025-11-16T19:15:26Z

already stated, tidy up some

A1: /* pots164 */ Adding quote from post163 himself

2025-11-16T17:51:25Z

‎pots164: Adding quote from post163 himself

Deafheaven: Fix typo

2023-12-09T13:50:57Z

Fix typo

Umbire the Phantom: /* Boudewijn Waijers */ link site

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‎Boudewijn Waijers: link site

Umbire the Phantom: /* Boudewijn Waijers */ tweaks

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‎Boudewijn Waijers: tweaks

Umbire the Phantom: formatting gaffe

2023-07-29T07:50:03Z

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Umbire the Phantom: Got sidetracked enough that I didn't finish this out

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Umbire the Phantom: I don't think we ever needed this amount of fluff for his description if we're gonna bother including him at all - feels Very Weird to say the least.

2023-07-29T07:17:39Z

I don't think we ever needed this amount of fluff for his description if we're gonna bother including him at all - feels Very Weird to say the least.

Umbire the Phantom: ...think this might be fine to leave actually? Spacing on the colons is annoying though

2022-10-05T03:06:10Z

...think this might be fine to leave actually? Spacing on the colons is annoying though

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 ==Luxidream==
-[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/L/Luxidream.all.html Luxidream] is usually the player with the most ascensions whenever he participates in [[Junethack]]. Has some realtime speedruns clocking in at [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/c3ypcr/nethack4_speedrun_wr_10154/ 1:01:54] (NetHack 4) and [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/d244wd/nethack_36x_speedrun_11052_realtime/ 1:10:52] (3.6.3).  Thanks to 80 ascensions in Dynahack, plenty of vanilla ''NetHack'' ascensions, and an ascension or two in a wide variety of variants, Luxidream held the [https://nethackscoreboard.org/zscore.all.html highest Z-score] across all variants in 2020.
+[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/L/Luxidream.all.html Luxidream] is usually the player with the most ascensions whenever he participates in [[Junethack]]. Luxidream is known for realtime speedruns, with the fastest (not counting seeded games) clocking in at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7A0dGR6IQ 0:52] in [[NetHack 3.6.6]]. Thanks to 80 ascensions in Dynahack, plenty of vanilla ''NetHack'' ascensions, and an ascension or two in a wide variety of variants, Luxidream held the [https://nethackscoreboard.org/zscore.all.html highest Z-score] across all variants in 2020.
 ==Maud==

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 ==Berry==
-[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/B/Berry.all.html Berry] is an extremely skilled player, capable of amazing consistency in his games. Arguably, his crowning achievement is a [https://nethackscoreboard.org/devnull/2012/players/berry.html streak of 13 games] in the /dev/null/nethack 2012 tournament. The games are not only a streak, but they ascend all NetHack roles and at the same time are all [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Score#How_to_maximize_score 64-bit MAXINT] ascensions.
+[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/B/Berry.all.html Berry] is an extremely skilled player, capable of amazing consistency in his games. Arguably, his crowning achievement is a [https://nethackscoreboard.org/devnull/2012/players/berry.html streak of 13 games] in the /dev/null/nethack 2012 tournament. The games are not only a streak, but they ascend all NetHack roles and at the same time are all [[Score#How to maximize score|64-bit MAXINT]] ascensions.
 ==BilldaCat==
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 ==pots164==
-[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164], who also plays under similar names such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163], is known for ending most of their games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping, and dying. He has a particular tendency to try and die on turn 1 whenever possible - in their own words, they find [[Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 zorkmids.|the message it produces]] funny. Beyond that, he is generally a normal if inexperienced player.
+[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164], who also plays under similar names such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163], is known for ending most of their games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping and dying. This is due to a particular tendency to try and die on turn 1 whenever possible&mdash;in his own words, he finds [[Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 zorkmids.|the message it produces]] funny. Beyond that, he is generally a normal if inexperienced player.
 ==stth==
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 ==Tariru==
-[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/T/Tariru.all.html Tariru] is the current holder of the longest-ever streak of 61 consecutive 3.6.0 ascensions, and a player who achieved more than 200 wins in the course of one year. His first ascension dates back to January 2012, but in mid-2014 he suddenly started churning ascensions at the rate 25 or more per month, peaking at 30 ascensions in December 2014. In the last few months of 2015 he slowed down considerably, but he still reached #1 on the multi-variant Z-score ladder. Apart from quantity, his other feats include long rows of non-vanilla ascensions, including an 11-game [[dNetHack]] streak and a 4-game [[DynaHack]] Elberethless streak (where the games were his first four DynaHack games). He has by far the most [[dNetHack]] wins. Moreover, starting in March 2018 he played several games of [[SLASH'EM Extended]] 2.1.7 and 2.2.2 on the hardfought.org server and ascended all of them on the first try, currently holding a 4-ascension streak with a 100% win rate. In Junethack 2018, Tariru ascended all 13 available variants, thereby getting the King of the World trophy; notably, he had no losses during the tournament at all, ascending each of the variants on the first try, some of which he had never played before.
+[https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/T/Tariru.all.html Tariru] is the current holder of the longest-ever streak of 61 consecutive 3.6.0 ascensions, and a player who achieved more than 200 wins in the course of one year. His first ascension dates back to January 2012, but in mid-2014 he suddenly started churning ascensions at the rate 25 or more per month, peaking at 30 ascensions in December 2014. In the last few months of 2015 he slowed down considerably, but he still reached #1 on the multi-variant Z-score ladder. Apart from quantity, his other feats include long rows of non-vanilla ascensions, including an 11-game [[dNetHack]] streak and a 4-game [[DynaHack]] Elberethless streak (where the games were his first four DynaHack games). He has the most dNetHack wins recorded.
 ==See also==

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 ==pots164==
 [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164], who also plays under similar names such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163], is known for ending most of their games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping, and dying. He has a particular tendency to try and die on turn 1 whenever possible - in their own words, they find [[Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 zorkmids.|the message it produces]] funny. Beyond that, he is generally a normal if inexperienced player.
 ==stth==

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−	Below is a list of the most '''notable ~~palyers~~''' of ''[[NetHack]]'' throughout its history.	+	Below is a list of the most '''notable players''' of ''[[NetHack]]'' throughout its history.

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 ==Boudewijn Waijers==
-Boudewijn Waijers played a part in compiling several of the spoilers for [[NetHack 3.4.3]] and earlier versions that you can see today on this wiki, and is also known for playing a character by the name of '''Efembe, the Mad Polypiler''' around 1990 - his exploits with this character were one of the primary reasons that [[polypiling]] in later versions degrades objects. The character's name comes from ''[[Moria (roguelike)|Moria]]'', where entering FMB at character creation would generate a male dwarven priest, which was one of Boudewijn's favorite characters to play.
+Boudewijn Waijers played a part in compiling several of the spoilers for [[NetHack 3.4.3]] and earlier versions that you can see today on this wiki, and is also known for playing a character by the name of '''Efembe, the Mad Polypiler''' around 1990 - his exploits with this character were one of the primary reasons that [[polypiling]] in later versions degrades objects. The character's name comes from ''[[Moria (roguelike)|Moria]]'', where entering FMB at character creation would generate a male dwarven priest, which was one of Boudewijn's favorite characters to play. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030808032439/http://home.tiscali.nl:80/~bwaijers/ An archive] of his personal site can be found here.
 ==Grasshopper==

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 [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/A/Adeon.all.html Adeon] is the previous holder of the longest streak (of 29 3.4.3 games, eventually surpassed by Tariru) and fastest realtime ascension (1 hour 3 minutes). Achieved [[dev/null/nethack_tournament#Grand|Best of 13]] during the devnull tournament in 2009 and 2010. Once demonstrated an [[Random number generator#Misuse|rng prediction attack]] on NAO, obtaining hundreds of wishes in a row from fountain quaffing. He is also the author of the [[Sheol]] branch in [[UnNetHack]].
-==Berry===
+==Berry==
 [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/B/Berry.all.html Berry] is an extremely skilled player, capable of amazing consistency in his games. Arguably, his crowning achievement is a [https://nethackscoreboard.org/devnull/2012/players/berry.html streak of 13 games] in the /dev/null/nethack 2012 tournament. The games are not only a streak, but they ascend all NetHack roles and at the same time are all [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Score#How_to_maximize_score 64-bit MAXINT] ascensions.

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 ; BilldaCat: Current holder of a game-time speedrun record with a [https://s3.amazonaws.com/altorg/dumplog/SpeedyCat7/1376970440.nh343.txt 2130 turn game].
 ; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/G/Grasshopper.all.html Grasshopper]: Currently second to Tariru in 3.6.0 streaks. However, his 19-games-long streak follows the (unofficial) [[Elbereth]]less conduct.
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 ; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/n/nht.all.html nht]: Also playing as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/u/unnht.all.html unnht], is a highly skilled player with a knack for very fast play, as documented by a slew of sub-10K wins, including a phenomenal 2185-turn win on [[NAO]]. In addition to vanilla NetHack, he has scored lot of wins in [[UnNetHack]], including feats such as the Master Thief conduct. He also experiments with TAS runs, such as a 363-turn, 16-second UnNetHack win and a 235-turn [[AceHack]] win. Worth mentioning is also his first public [[NetHack Fourk]] ascension, which is still the speediest game for the variant with its 6428 turns. nht is also an accomplished [[Dungeon Crawl]] player.
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164]: An extremely prolific knight who has played many thousands of games, and ended most of those games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping, and dying.  They appear to be manually playing, not using a bot, so this represents a significant time investment on the part of this player.  Is it a zen ritual?  A form of crypto mining?  A shrill protest?  No one will know.  There are additional alts with similar names, such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163].
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164]: A player known for ending most of their games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping, and dying. They have a particular tendency to try and die on turn 1 whenever possible, due to finding [[Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 zorkmids.|the message it produces]] funny. There are additional alts with similar names, such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163].
 ; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/s/stth.all.html stth]: An extremely prolific player who was the first to surpass ''78291'' in Z-score and who held the #1 spot through 2017. He achieved an [http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/s/stthX/dumplog/1345463235.nh343.txt ultraextinctionist] game, in which every kind of monster was killed 255 times, going so far as killing 38 mail demons (which normally go extinct after one kill). He's also notable for variant play, ascending most variants available for play. He scored the first [[dNetHack]] ascension and was usually the only one to ascend [[GruntHack]] and [[SporkHack]] during [[Junethack]]. He has around 600 ascensions as of 2020.

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-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/7/78291.all.html 78291] : Long time holder of the top z-score on [[NAO]], he achieved his dominance in a mere 7 months: his first NAO ascension took place on May 25, 2007 and his last on December 29, 2007. In July 2007, his output peaked at 52 ascensions per month (1.7 ascensions per day), quite likely a NetHack record. He totaled 234 ascensions in 2007, a record that still holds. It took years before his Z-score was surpassed by ''stth''. Currently, after more than a decade of not playing NetHack, he is still at 6<sup>th</sup> place among Z-scores. He went on to play [[Dungeon Crawl]] where he was [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/78291.html no less prolific] (under nick N78291).
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/7/78291.all.html 78291]: Long time holder of the top z-score on [[NAO]], he achieved his dominance in a mere 7 months: his first NAO ascension took place on May 25, 2007 and his last on December 29, 2007. In July 2007, his output peaked at 52 ascensions per month (1.7 ascensions per day), quite likely a NetHack record. He totaled 234 ascensions in 2007, a record that still holds. It took years before his Z-score was surpassed by ''stth''. Currently, after more than a decade of not playing NetHack, he is still at 6<sup>th</sup> place among Z-scores. He went on to play [[Dungeon Crawl]] where he was [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/78291.html no less prolific] (under nick N78291).
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/A/Adeon.all.html Adeon] : Previous holder of the longest streak (of 29 3.4.3 games, eventually surpassed by Tariru) and fastest realtime ascension (1 hour 3 minutes). Achieved [[dev/null/nethack_tournament#Grand|Best of 13]] two years running during the devnull tournament, in 2009 and 2010. Once demonstrated an [[Random_number_generator#Misuse|rng prediction attack]] on NAO, obtaining hundreds of wishes in a row from fountain quaffing. He is also the author of the [[Sheol]] branch in [[UnNetHack]].
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/A/Adeon.all.html Adeon]: Previous holder of the longest streak (of 29 3.4.3 games, eventually surpassed by Tariru) and fastest realtime ascension (1 hour 3 minutes). Achieved [[dev/null/nethack_tournament#Grand|Best of 13]] two years running during the devnull tournament, in 2009 and 2010. Once demonstrated an [[Random_number_generator#Misuse|rng prediction attack]] on NAO, obtaining hundreds of wishes in a row from fountain quaffing. He is also the author of the [[Sheol]] branch in [[UnNetHack]].
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/B/Berry.all.html Berry] : An extremely skilled player, capable of amazing consistency in his games. Arguably, his crowning achievement is a [https://nethackscoreboard.org/devnull/2012/players/berry.html streak of 13 games] in the /dev/null/nethack 2012 tournament. The games are not only a streak, but they ascend all NetHack roles and at the same time are all [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Score#How_to_maximize_score 64-bit MAXINT] ascensions.
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/B/Berry.all.html Berry]: An extremely skilled player, capable of amazing consistency in his games. Arguably, his crowning achievement is a [https://nethackscoreboard.org/devnull/2012/players/berry.html streak of 13 games] in the /dev/null/nethack 2012 tournament. The games are not only a streak, but they ascend all NetHack roles and at the same time are all [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Score#How_to_maximize_score 64-bit MAXINT] ascensions.
-; BilldaCat : Current holder of a game-time speedrun record with a [https://s3.amazonaws.com/altorg/dumplog/SpeedyCat7/1376970440.nh343.txt 2130 turn game].
+; BilldaCat: Current holder of a game-time speedrun record with a [https://s3.amazonaws.com/altorg/dumplog/SpeedyCat7/1376970440.nh343.txt 2130 turn game].
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/G/Grasshopper.all.html Grasshopper] : Currently second to Tariru in 3.6.0 streaks. However, his 19-games-long streak follows the (unofficial) [[Elbereth]]less conduct.
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/G/Grasshopper.all.html Grasshopper]: Currently second to Tariru in 3.6.0 streaks. However, his 19-games-long streak follows the (unofficial) [[Elbereth]]less conduct.
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/L/Luxidream.all.html Luxidream] : Usually the player with the most ascensions in Junethack. Has some realtime speedruns clocking in at [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/c3ypcr/nethack4_speedrun_wr_10154/ 1:01:54] (NetHack 4) and [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/d244wd/nethack_36x_speedrun_11052_realtime/ 1:10:52] (3.6.3).  Thanks to 80 ascensions in Dynahack, plenty of vanilla ''NetHack'' ascensions, and an ascension or two in a wide variety of variants, Luxidream has the [https://nethackscoreboard.org/zscore.all.html highest Z-score] across all variants as of this writing in 2020.
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/L/Luxidream.all.html Luxidream]: Usually the player with the most ascensions in Junethack. Has some realtime speedruns clocking in at [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/c3ypcr/nethack4_speedrun_wr_10154/ 1:01:54] (NetHack 4) and [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/d244wd/nethack_36x_speedrun_11052_realtime/ 1:10:52] (3.6.3).  Thanks to 80 ascensions in Dynahack, plenty of vanilla ''NetHack'' ascensions, and an ascension or two in a wide variety of variants, Luxidream has the [https://nethackscoreboard.org/zscore.all.html highest Z-score] across all variants as of this writing in 2020.
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/M/Maud.all.html Maud] : Famed for his ground-breaking game-time speedruns. He has a number of sub-3K ascensions, the most outstanding being the bones-stuffed [https://alt.org/nethack/userdata/M/Maud/dumplog/1291595692.nh343.txt 2135 turn game] from December 2010 and the [https://alt.org/nethack/userdata/M/Maud/dumplog/1444567290.nh343.txt 2251 turn bones-free ascension] from October 2015.
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/M/Maud.all.html Maud]: Famed for his ground-breaking game-time speedruns. He has a number of sub-3K ascensions, the most outstanding being the bones-stuffed [https://alt.org/nethack/userdata/M/Maud/dumplog/1291595692.nh343.txt 2135 turn game] from December 2010 and the [https://alt.org/nethack/userdata/M/Maud/dumplog/1444567290.nh343.txt 2251 turn bones-free ascension] from October 2015.
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/n/nht.all.html nht] : Also playing as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/u/unnht.all.html unnht], is a highly skilled player with a knack for very fast play, as documented by a slew of sub-10K wins, including a phenomenal 2185-turn win on [[NAO]]. In addition to vanilla NetHack, he has scored lot of wins in [[UnNetHack]], including feats such as the Master Thief conduct. He also experiments with TAS runs, such as a 363-turn, 16-second UnNetHack win and a 235-turn [[AceHack]] win. Worth mentioning is also his first public [[NetHack Fourk]] ascension, which is still the speediest game for the variant with its 6428 turns. nht is also an accomplished [[Dungeon Crawl]] player.
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/n/nht.all.html nht]: Also playing as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/u/unnht.all.html unnht], is a highly skilled player with a knack for very fast play, as documented by a slew of sub-10K wins, including a phenomenal 2185-turn win on [[NAO]]. In addition to vanilla NetHack, he has scored lot of wins in [[UnNetHack]], including feats such as the Master Thief conduct. He also experiments with TAS runs, such as a 363-turn, 16-second UnNetHack win and a 235-turn [[AceHack]] win. Worth mentioning is also his first public [[NetHack Fourk]] ascension, which is still the speediest game for the variant with its 6428 turns. nht is also an accomplished [[Dungeon Crawl]] player.
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164] : An extremely prolific knight who has played many thousands of games, and ended most of those games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping, and dying.  They appear to be manually playing, not using a bot, so this represents a significant time investment on the part of this player.  Is it a zen ritual?  A form of crypto mining?  A shrill protest?  No one will know.  There are additional alts with similar names, such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163].
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/pots164.all.html pots164]: An extremely prolific knight who has played many thousands of games, and ended most of those games by attempting to mount a horse, slipping, and dying.  They appear to be manually playing, not using a bot, so this represents a significant time investment on the part of this player.  Is it a zen ritual?  A form of crypto mining?  A shrill protest?  No one will know.  There are additional alts with similar names, such as [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/p/post163.all.html post163].
-; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/s/stth.all.html stth] : An extremely prolific player who was the first to surpass ''78291'' in Z-score and who held the #1 spot through 2017. He achieved an [http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/s/stthX/dumplog/1345463235.nh343.txt ultraextinctionist] game, in which every kind of monster was killed 255 times, going so far as killing 38 mail demons (which normally go extinct after one kill). He's also notable for variant play, ascending most variants available for play. He scored the first [[dNetHack]] ascension and was usually the only one to ascend [[GruntHack]] and [[SporkHack]] during [[Junethack]]. He has around 600 ascensions as of 2020.
+; [https://nethackscoreboard.org/players/s/stth.all.html stth]: An extremely prolific player who was the first to surpass ''78291'' in Z-score and who held the #1 spot through 2017. He achieved an [http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/s/stthX/dumplog/1345463235.nh343.txt ultraextinctionist] game, in which every kind of monster was killed 255 times, going so far as killing 38 mail demons (which normally go extinct after one kill). He's also notable for variant play, ascending most variants available for play. He scored the first [[dNetHack]] ascension and was usually the only one to ascend [[GruntHack]] and [[SporkHack]] during [[Junethack]]. He has around 600 ascensions as of 2020.
 ==See also==
 * [[Notable ascensions]]
 [[Category:Community]]