YouTuber uses AI to shatter Trackmania’s untouchable record

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Fans of Trackmania have made history, as YouTuber Yosh managed to conquer a long-standing world record using artificial intelligence.

For a period of two years, the remarkable time of 23.79 seconds on A01, Trackmania’s inaugural track, remained unbeaten. This record-breaking run was set by player Eddie and served as a standard for the entire community, being considered nearly impossible to beat due to its exceptional precision and the wide margin between first and second place.

Yosh, a seasoned Trackmania level designer, spent over three thousand tries training a personalized AI using reinforcement learning on level A01. Eventually, this AI reached the time goal set by the developers. After 400 hours of play, the bot was frequently within hundredths of Eddie’s world record. Following countless inputs, the AI managed to assemble a run that was 0.04 seconds quicker than any human had ever done before.

Trackmania’s unbeatable record broken by AI

In the most recent video, Yosh demonstrated that his autonomous driving AI, on its own, managed to beat a human record after running numerous simulations. Through coding, he encouraged the AI to complete the course quicker. Eventually, it achieved a 23.75 run, surpassing Eddie’s previous best time as a human driver.

Yosh found that a mere four hundredths of a second wasn’t sufficient for him, so he started integrating various tools. Initially, he added an “auto-drift” assistant which automatically adjusted to the ideal drift angle at a speed of 20 inputs per second, allowing his bot to achieve 23.72 runs and surpass the human record approximately half the time.

Next, he divided the training process, allowing the AI to individually process each segment to select only top-performing micro-segments, and he also employed TAS-style exhaustive search to investigate unusual behaviors that the AI might not understand. This exploration led to an unexpected discovery: a minuscule misalignment in the road seam on A01, which could slightly propel the car earlier for a quicker start of the downhill jump and maintain high speed. This finding enabled Yosh’s AI to surpass human performance completely, recording a time of 23.64 seconds – a feat that even tool-assisted runs had found challenging to replicate.

During this time, the AI’s groundbreaking find caused quite a stir. However, Eddie’s supposedly unbeatable record was surpassed: in August 2025, player Rollin achieved a time of 23.78 on A01, reducing it slightly by just one hundredth of a second and once again establishing the benchmark as a testament to human skill.

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2025-09-06 20:18