The Peak!

[gomi no sensei]

Man, that sub-minute car is something.

My best comes in at 1:18. It started as a rectangle with a large wheel at each corner and evolved into a skate with one wheel at the front and a bunch of different sized ones at the back. It seemed to lose speed sometimes when the front wheel came up, so I added two additional wheels to the front in the same spot as the existing one. That plus a few dozen generations of evolution brought it down to 1:18.

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I tried removing some of the bits that break off anyway in the hope to pick up some of the time it's losing when they snap off, but that made it slower or prevented it from finishing at all.

[fyrestorm]

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1:07, took all my best cars and put them through PSO overnight. Hit copy best and this beauty came along

[ltsply2]

Here's a weird one that ends up at 1:04 (my best so far). It looks nothing like any of my other cars that routinely end up in the low teens. Watching it run, I thought that the car copy option had broken.

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[fyrestorm]

Here's a weird one that ends up at 1:04 (my best so far). It looks nothing like any of my other cars that routinely end up in the low teens. Watching it run, I thought that the car copy option had broken.

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hahahaa thats fucking impressive! its just max 2 wheels too. i love the fact it pretty much loses its entire body and its just a little particle with a big wheel

[sporkaganza]

I just discovered this website and am a total amateur, but I had to join just to show you guys this really bizarre fluke I discovered.

I was interested in this level. I was looking at the Best Cars page and figured that the winning design on 2.2 for Hang Ten was as good as any place to start. It turned out to be fairly decent, and I got a score somewhere in the mid-hundreds with it. Then I decided to let it evolve some more, and that's when this happened:

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This car literally showed up within the first generation, and somehow broke the one thousand mark. What makes it even more bizarre is that it doesn't seem to be anything inherent in the design; it's just a total fluke that it manages to get such a high score. I really don't understand why, but it left me scratching my head.

Then again, it might just be something odd with my system, since a lot of the other designs here that I've tried don't seem to work on my computer. Oh wait it's because I'm one of those weirdos who uses a Mac. (I did manage to get the under-a-minute design to work though; that thing is insane! Even if it actually takes 1:08 on my computer.)

[ArSoron]

I've managed to evolve a pretty insane car on The peak. It starts as a two-wheeler, then looses most parts at approx. 730, looses one wheel at approx. 900 and it's only the last wheel with a couple of parts attached (and torque 10 ) that makes it to finish in 1:10.
Self-evolved in ~200 generation, no hand-tweaking.
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I'm really curious about how it would evolve further.

[fyrestorm]

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finally! 1:06 with v3.2

[ltsply2]

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Fun new 1:04... One wheel.

[Diseased]

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Finishes in 1:23, not amazing in itself but it evolved on GENERATION ZERO, just a few cars in, from this silly car:

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[Diseased]

Also to stop myself accidentally closing and losing it, a 1:10:

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Plenty of room for improvement, of course.