I visited all 97 DC Metro stations in 8h 36m (WORLD RECORD) 

That's the beauty of the Washington Metro transit system: so many connections EVERYWHERE that it's nearly impossible to NOT go places. I am sure you have noticed that there are a LOT of bus lines that interconnect in Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, and Loudon counties that will get you into and out of DC itself. That's the making of a great system utilizing ALL of the available connections, and congratulations for setting the record!

Congrats! It was interesting to learn that the shortest distance between 2 metro stations is sometimes a bus!

Well done! I set the record for 91 in 2019 and had equally crappy weather. If we hadn't held outside nearly all of my transfer points, I had 91 timed to 7hrs 34 mins. Oh well. I'm waiting for PY to open before I go again. I'm pretty sure I remember you were also in the lead car of the first revenue Ashburn train back in November. Glad to see a fellow enthusiast do this and share their journey. I wish I hadn't had a bunch of rules to follow for my run so I could've put something cool like this together for others. Thanks for sharing!

This is an amazing and well-produced video! Can't wait to beat your record when Potomac Yards opens ;)

Very nostalgic. Went to DC in 2011 to air and space museum. That's what got me into planes. Love the vid.

In my time in my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s, it took me 2 summers after the school year was over to ride every subway line from end to end except for the Myrtle Ave El to Downtown Brooklyn which happened in the summer of 1968 with my late parents and my little brother. At the Bridge Jay Street Terminal we could see the stone towers of the Brooklyn Bridge about 4 blocks from the platform. Until October 1969 there was joint subway and wooden elevated trains that shared the same tracks on part of their routes from 1905 til 1969. Such were the exciting days in Old NYC and Old America! 😊

You're the first I know to do it with the new silver line extension. I did it in 2018 in 7:59 and the record at the time iirc was 7:20. Nice job though! I've been waiting for the yellow (and purple) lines to come in before I do another attempt

I am also planning to do this! Congrats! I will definitely look into some of the shortcuts you used.

another enthusiast of both floppa and transit.. very nice

Have added this run to the DC Metro's Wikipedia page, since it read as if Wall's run was still the record holder. May try to best it at some point this summer myself.

This is an certified railfan moment 👍

I think the Silver Line has the most stations 34 station stops, compared to the Blue and Red lines with 27 stops. Since you caught many of the Metrorail stations, you are a lucky ducky. I may not want to combine bus trips with riding Metrorail. I hope the battery in your camera will be fresh enough to make it up and running than grease lightning! I am a rapid transit buff.

Floppa and public transit, the ultimate crossover

The OP move is to time this so that you can take the 494 express bus between Tysons and Franconia-Springfield. This would be my hypothetical itinerary once the yellow line reopens: Leave around 11:50AM on a weekday Silver -Ashburn to McLean Walk 8 mins to 494 at 12:29 to Franconia-Springfield Blue Line to King St Yellow Line to Huntington Yellow Line to Greenbelt MARC to Union Station Red Line to Shady Grove, then back to Twinbrook Bus to Wheaton Red line to Glenmont, then back to Union MARC to New Carrollton Orange line to Stadium Armory Blue/Silver to Largo Town Center, then Blue to Arlington Cemetery, back up to Rosslyn Orange to Vienna (And I just realized I forgot the southern section of the green line, I'll think of how to add it eventually) I looked up the MARC and metro schedules and this should work without any long transfers.

On the older trains the 6000s you can charge things underneath the seats

I don't need to use Metro on my office commute, but was actually out the same evening you did this speed-run... with over half of an inch of rain at DCA I would call that "driving rain" as there's only an average of 29 days annually with precipitation at or in excess of half of an inch (12.7 mm), or less than 1 in 12 days. Without speed-running (and only the 1 usage of Huntington being sub-optimal), I've passed through 84 stations by rail so far, the exceptions being: - Franconia/Springfield - Green Line southeast of the Anacostia River (6 stations) - Morgan Blvd and Largo - New Carrollton [only via MARC / Amtrak, which doesn't count] - Silver Line west of VA-28 (IAD, Loudoun Gateway, and Ashburn)

the music is so nice for a world record video lmao

Congrats, man! You made me miss taking the Metro.

DC ridership takes the rules seriously. I once saw a guy light up a cigarette on an open platform, and I thought the commuters were gonna push him onto the tracks! 😂

TIL that speedrunning the DC metro is a thing, lol.

Why do you only have two videos?

Nice that you chose the 3000 over the 7000 at glenmont. Those are going to be retiring soon.

Washington DC’s Metro is the third or fourth largest subway system in America!

This is so cool! I'm gonna try to do this in the summer when I'm back in DC and the Yellow Line reopens :D

I wanna try and see if I can go to every station ina day I'm not necessarily trying to break the record but the idea of being at every station ina day sounds interesting

It could be quicker if the yellow line wasn't closed. The yellow is a shortcut into DC as the blue line takes longer as it has many more stops to DC

Ah, our famous single tracking.

Yery interested to see how the reopening of the yellow and, eventually, the new purple line will affect the meta, great vid!

Hey my man, loved the video, but since your voice is sort of low, I think it would do you a lot of good to lower the background audio when you're doing a voiceover, I can barely hear you. Keep on keepin on! You got some real nice shots for this video!

I did all of the Maryland Stops on New Year's Day because I found out that doing all of them would be over 9 hours. The new Virginia stops weren't worth goind to at that late time. I started at 1:56Pm and finished 8:46Pm

I like how it's called a "world record" lol. Impressive!

Should have stopped at Wheaton to ride the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere

W bro congrats on the achievement!

i messaged my buddy in DC to beat this speedrun becaue i dont beliveve you went fast enough and it's easily beatable ill keep you updated

Congratulations on conquering the WMATA GAUNTLET

Congratulations! Now do all the NYC subway stations plus the Staten Island Railway.

Nice job, you were super lucky on those trains!

i read the title as completing this in 38 minutes total😭 anyways we need the purple line RNNNNN

Sounds like a fun idea. Too bad my city doesn't have any kind of rail to be able to do this.

If you ever got to Atlanta, you could also try doing the MARTA Station challenge, that system is smaller than DC but still is a lot of fun.

Imagine doing this for the three MARC lines...

congrats - awesome job!

Wow that 97 stations was coming in five or ten or many minutes and all their time and wow that their time as he was in a game with 97 metro stations from a go and all dc lines was in the same fame as Prince George here

Best parts we’re seeing my stations hyattsvile and pg plaza we have the fastest trains 😂over here

The old announcer is the best.

5:28 thank you for censoring the inappropriate language! There might be kids watching and they should grow up knowing it only as National or DCA

lmao i never even realized metros could be speedran and i might do something like that in my home city nanjing, love from china

Congrats that was awesome. When they open the new yellow station at Potomac yards you gonna try it again?

This would be an amazing feat if you'd do this with amtrak transit 😆 🤣

Great Video👍🏼 nice to see everything in the area.

Uh oh, they just built a new station on the blue line... You might need to do it all over again

Dude I don’t know how you visit 97 dc stations in eight hours 36 minutes and I will fall asleep on the train for eight hours and 36 minutes and I am going falling asleep on the train I will be asleep in a minute or two minutes and I have to go back to sleep when I g got off the train and I will be up at nine and I’m not going on train for eight hours and 36 minutes and I’m not sure if that challenge will not work for me but I’m sure other people are coming to see the challenge working for us and I need some people to help me with the challenge to ninety seven metro stations for eight hours And 36 minutes of the challenge

dude i dare you to speed run all marta rail stations in atlanta

Wow! I was on metro (Jan 25th)!

Hero moves.

That freaking computer voice that plays in the station must really bug the regular metro riders.

Congratulations dude.

Wait do you live in Maryland or NoVa if so I didn't know caracal cats are legal here

Ride On FTW!!! edit: I never knew Minnesota Avenue Station is a thing

Congrats! Terrific video!

When did you stop at McPherson Square?

I’m gonna do this on Thursday, maybe I’ll beat the record, but I bet my route is much less optimal than yours

Congratulations my good man well deserved😎😎😎💎💎💎

Did you go to Potomac Yards Station? It just opened up recently!

I wanna try this with MARTA

nice leotrix

Do you know how much this ended up costing you? I imagine all of the runs to the end of the line added up!

What stopwatch app did you use?

There's no such thing as an uncovered Metro ERL station stop as photoshopped in the thumbnail picture

Such a sick video and I think I might wanna do this as well! Do you mind if you let me know the name of the app you were using to track your time?

did you use apple maps to plan this?

what is that app you were using? i would like to try the same for my city, buenos aires!

I love Undertime Floppa

Do the Boston subway and the nyc lol

Ready to visit every MARC and VRE station?

Glad you didn’t get on that P12 to Eastover 😂😂

Did the record reset after the extension opened?

i really wish they expanded the metro in prince georges county a lot of room for expansion also fairfax county too and montgomery county for the red line to go up to germantown

THIS RECORD GOT BEATEN BY SCOTT AT 7 HRs

I wanna do the same thing since I am in DC now!

Lived there for thirty years. Silver Line? Never heard of it! But at least it matches my hair.

this is great! great job! im planning on doing this in june do you have any tips?

fucking epic sir, well done

That was 👍 good

What day of the week and time of the day did you do this? Just saw your segment on NBC. Congrats!

what app is ghat you're using to keep time?

I am disappointed this isn't real time

good content

You missed McPherson from what I can see. As you took the bus from Farragut West to Farragut north. Or, am I missing something? Either why, looks like a great record to beat! Congrats!

W Video

im gonna beat this (using yellow line + potomac yard ofc)

Ladie

great video how do u not have more subs

Wow! There is a record for everything. Just curious, if you enter a station and stay in the system all day and come out from the same station, how is the fare calculated?

Are you from Philly? I heard a "jawn" in there at Glenmont.

Hmm, what's the criteria for riding the whole system? Is it passing through every station or passing over every piece of track? Because if it's the latter then you missed the part between Capitol Heights and Addison Road, as well as the Red line past Brookland. I assumed before watching that it would be passing through every station. No matter, I enjoyed the video. And congrats on the record!

watch out

wowie

Wouldn't it be a DC record, not a world record?

congrats! what app did you use to record the time