World Record

A World Record, often abbreviated to WR, is the fastest known speed run or the best known high score for a video game in a given category or level.

There is always an outside possibility that there are people in the world with better records than the video gaming community at large knows about. However, in general this possibility is ignored, for good reasons:

1. By definition, ANY world record is the "best known" world record, and all world records were "unknown" before they were reported. This applies to every record in the Guinness Book Of Records as much as it does to the videogaming community.
2. In the case of popular or long-fought-for records, it becomes exceedingly unlikely that anybody could have independently discovered the necessary strategies and beaten the known WR without having any contact with the videogaming community.
3. Speculation is pointless, especially in an arena where proof is so critical.