Roblox player exposes fraud to claim Guinness World Record

Wednesday, January 7, 2026
 

Belgium, Meulebeke – Quinten Delaere, an 18-year-old student, has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records after exposing cheating on the Roblox platform. Delaere, known online as ‘kannotlogin’, used data analysis to prove that the top times on the global leaderboard were achieved using illegal scripts.

Delaere is a Physics and Astronomy student at Ghent University. He was competing in a speedrunning event for the game Ultimate Easy Obby. The event was an official collaboration between Roblox and Guinness World Records. Players had to complete a digital obstacle course as fast as possible. After a week of optimization, Delaere posted a time of 5 minutes and 48.96 seconds. Shortly before the competition closed, three unknown accounts posted times around 5 minutes and 42 seconds. This six-second difference was physically impossible within the game’s engine according to Delaere.

Suspecting foul play, Delaere launched a digital forensic investigation. He compiled a dossier to demonstrate that the new records were fraudulent. His evidence relied on three main technical points.

First, he analyzed the timestamps of the badges earned by the rival accounts. He discovered that badges were unlocked in an impossible chronological order. The second-place account received badges for level 50 and 45 before receiving the badge for level 25. In a linear course this indicates the use of teleportation hacks.

Second, the top accounts were missing specific digital items in their inventory. Legitimate players who cross the finish line automatically receive a ‘GWR Gold Medal’. The suspect accounts lacked this item. This suggested they triggered the win condition via a script without traversing the course.

Additionally, one account possessed a ‘Walmart Coil’. This is an item from a previous event that had already expired. This indicated the use of software to illicitly unlock assets. Delaere also submitted a frame-by-frame video analysis of his own run to calculate the theoretical maximum speed. He showed that the rival times were mathematically unachievable.

Delaere submitted his findings to the Guinness World Records headquarters in London. Following an internal verification process, the organization validated his evidence. The fraudulent times were removed from the database. The time set by Delaere was officially recognized as the new world record.

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