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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99View Summer Game Fest New games for 2025 Upcoming Switch 2 games Switch 2 stock Recommended reading Super Mario Mario Kart World players have found the optimal way to unlock every vehicle, and it involves driving slowly behind a pedestrian car for 25 minutes Super Mario Best Mario Kart world setup to win at any cc Super Mario Mario Kart World is "completely broken," speedrun legend declares as players demolish the racing game's time trials with its wild new movement mechanics Racing Games Mario Kart World's intermissions are a fun novelty, but I'm already sick of them detracting from more time in the circuits Nintendo Switch 2 As Mario Kart World approaches, fans remember bizarre Mario Kart 8 frame rate issue which has lasted 11 years, but only on the Wii U with CPU racers and on every 64th frame Super Mario Mario Kart World roster: The complete Mario Kart World character list Super Mario How to unlock characters in Mario Kart World Platforming Games Super Mario Mario Kart World Mario Kart World repeats Mario Kart 8's most annoying problem as Nintendo's seemingly hiding all-important stats for characters and vehicles Kaan Serin 12 June 2025 Don't trust Nintendo to tell you how fast you're really going When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Nintendo) Don't trust Nintendo to tell you how fast your loadout really is in Mario Kart World because, just like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the game seems to be hiding all sorts of stats. In Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart World, the game displays some basic information about your character and your karts' stats shortly before a race - speed, acceleration, weight, and handling included. Bigger characters, like Bowser, usually hit higher maximum speeds than the smaller names on the roster, like the babies. But anyone knee deep in the Mario Kart 8 meta knows the game's basic stats don't paint the full picture. The game secretly hides stats about how fast your character/kart combo goes in water, on land, in the air, and even how effective turbo boosts are - and Mario Kart World is seemingly just as secretive. You may like Mario Kart World players have found the optimal way to unlock every vehicle, and it involves driving slowly behind a pedestrian car for 25 minutes Best Mario Kart world setup to win at any cc Mario Kart World is "completely broken," speedrun legend declares as players demolish the racing game's time trials with its wild new movement mechanics If Mario Kart World's stat screen is to be believed at face value, then Waluigi and Wario should move just as fast as each other when driving in the same vehicle. They are in the same weight class, after all, right? Wrong! HIDDEN STATS Are Better Than We Thought in Mario Kart World... - YouTube YouTuber svcTyler recently conducted some early testing on the subject and found that certain character/kart combinations are actually faster than others, despite the game promising they have exactly the same stats. What's even more unusual is that different characters seem to go faster depending on the very terrain they're driving on - Wario seems to be the fastest on normal tracks, while Cow has a slight advantage on muddier dirt roads, for example. Content creator Austin John Plays also found that all is not as it seems, though we still need to wait until more extensive community testing comes through to know what's really going on (unless Nintendo just tells us, but what are the chances of that happening?) since Game8 didn't find anything fishy in its early testing. For now, check out how to find all P-Switch locations in Mario Kart World and all Mario Kart World outfits. 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