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I disagree with this. Most of the actual, absolute hardest levels were cleared years ago, when they were first uploaded. There is a reason you don't see any Panga levels in the uncleared list, despite him consistently making some of the toughest levels in all of Mario. People actually enjoy his levels, and found great pride chewing through them and beating them. The actual hardest levels never made it anywhere close to this list.

In fact, watching various streamers the last month or so, most of the final levels were actually pretty "easy". They spent about 30-60 minutes on them before the clear. Barely had to spend any time in the editor or practicing. Because the levels left were decidedly not the hardest, they were just random level creators that put out their levels with no fanfare, that then got lost in the 100 man algorithm, or they were excessively tedious consistency levels that nobody bothered wasting their time on until now.

Even here at the end, thabeast was grinding out The Last Dance (the second to last level to be beat) for 20 something hours. The guy that beat it grinded it out for about 10 hours before he beat it. Between the two of them, they played about 30 hours. Both of them have said that they don't think that Herbs is necessary the hardest, just the most annoying, least fun to play, so they picked Last Dance to try and beat first. Because here's the rub. If you're gonna spend 20-30 hours grinding out a level, if it's at least fun, you can keep yourself motivated through the process.

Trimming the Herbs is not the hardest, it's just at the end of the list because it is excessively annoying to grind out, and most people opted for the funner levels first. That's it.

Now, it is a very, very challenging level. There's no denying that. But it's probably not the hardest all-time. It's just the more annoying, tedious level that remained.