I got the game on January 2012, but I really started playing on June, when I joined CB, after Roronoa asked me on the french MK site. Since then, I've spent my whole gaming time playing wars, WWs, and TT of course.

I made a thread similar to this not long ago...

I'll make my story soon, don't feel like typing a lot right now

It's fine, nothing about it really affects me personally

Please Anto speak english you put some french words instead of english's, and your english is very bad :|
So if you want to speak english speak with a "good" english :|
Ok I don't have the best english ever but I have a "good" english

Before getting Miiverse, I was thinking that I held the MW G WR like every noob... (1'11, there's worse)

I also remember playing hard CCL to beat this fucking staff ghost... Joining the RR clan in May 2014 and glitching on rDC at my test...

In February 2014 my best times were 1'24"351 WL G, 1'58"408 MP, 1'09"881 MW G and 1'15"177 rMC2...

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAAC_UqFLt4ZJYQ ; https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAAABUaW7N_FAzA ; https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAAC_UqFLWQTx4g

In August they were 1'17"850 rDC G and 1'38"975 CCL :/

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Well you know what? I think that I'll finally get into my mk7 story and such:

My MK7 journey all started with getting Mario Kart Wii on Christmas 2011. I has asked for it after I had had a lot of fun playing it over a friend's house. Back then in say the first few months, I was a complete noob at the game. I didn't even see basic shortcuts that were available. But I thunk that's enough with mkw.

The next Christmas, I would end up asking for mk7 and a 3ds, and I got both. I started out better after experience from mkw and watching some videos on shortcuts and srats beforehand. I shared the mk7 cartridge with my brother at first, but eventually he lost interest in the whole mario kart series, so it became my own cartridge. In 2013 I spent many hours playing mk7, so many that my parents didn't really like how much I played. I think back then, I played a rather equal amount of wws and tts, but I really did enjoy both modes. But the good thing is that I never thought I had MW WR.

My mk7 journey (part I) went well into 2013. I had some good fun with tts, although I was much worse than I am now, and online was fun to do, especially with friends. That summer I played so much MK7 that I passed 10 hrs and 11 hrs on activity log (although some it was friend list+other games) Eventually, later in 2013, I sort of abandoned mk7 without really realizing. I started to pick up newer games such as SM3DL, PMSS, and even went back to mkw once I was able to launch custom tracks. For a long time mk7 wasn't a part of my life, and I thought I may never pick it up again. Getting a Kindle fire in 2013 didn't make mk7 any more important to me either.

But one night, probably around May 2014, I got bored and decides to pick MK7 up for the first time in months. I started by TTing rWP, and improved from a 2:20 to a 2:17.0 in one night. That's where I knew that I would be playing this game again. TTs became my main priority of the game. In fact, I don't think I worldwided until at least a few weeks into the game. Then all of a sudden, I used miiverse again. I had used it when it came out on 3ds, but I sort of abandoned it a bit after. There I started posting my times but I only got a bit of recognition (I made a bunch of foolish blooper like posts there too, but I think only a few of you here will remember those) I could improve mk7 very quickly, on any track really. I probably played a lot of MK7 that summer, and that summer something that would change my whole view on mk7 happened. I met Evan Wiseman. Evan was someone who I think randomly stumbled across my profile. Quickly we became pretty good friends, and he even got a kick over some of my foolish posts. He also played competitive tts though. I had only 1 other friend like this, that being wallace. Evan got some times that were a lot better than mine, and I really wanted to beat him a few times. Eventually, Evan's miiverse profile comment lured me into the mk7 players page. I needed a bit of help at first, but eventually I got the hang of how the pp runs. I had sort of insulted a time updater, but we are friends now, so I think he got over it. Anyway, the players page quickly made me want to improve MK7. By my first time being mentioned in the news on the AF charts I was #93, after originating somewhere in the 100s. Eventually, my activity was as strong as the tsunami that hit Japan. I started specializing on rLR, getting a #14 time there within 1 month of joining the players page. That pr was not beaten until the end of February 2015. I had also moved up to #62 on the AF charts, stealing a trio of POWs as well. Then, in november, I became a news updater of the site, when I found out I had the ability, I started writing a news update immediately. It was very exciting to write and I think I went back and read it quite a few times! During the rest of 2014, my activity was still strong. I was still climbing up the AF charts faster than nearly everyone. People were amazed at how good I had become in such little time. At the start of 2015, I was #30 on the AF charts.

On Christmas 2014, I got a wii u, mk8 2 days later, which I played a lot. I thought that I wouldn't touch mk7 for at least a few months. However I prd a week later on rKTB, but it was a small pr. I started to return to mk7 late january, not having the same skill on a lot of tracks. I would switch odd between the 2 games, which I still do today. However, something big happened in hanuary:my first WW Top 10. The course was daisy hills, and it ranked 6th ww at the time. I thought I wouldn't get something like this for a while, but during MGM, I got another WW top 10 on rMG by learning the high jump, as well as my first AR, and still the only one I have today. With this, I went up to #25 on the PP. I started to play mk7 almost as much as I used to know, improving mainly on tracks I had potential on. Then in match or April 2015, I got another ww top 10 on rMC2, which unfortunately was taken down quickly by Yacine. Then, April 2015 came, and it made me realize my true best track:BC. I started off there with a 1:59.7 that month, but quickly got 1:59.5. 2 cuts later I was at 1:59.3. Then I got a 1:59.1 there days later, and it was really hard to improve. unluckily I improved there twice without a ww top 10, but then, some days later, I got 10th ww with a 1:59.003. I stopped there for a while, focusing on other tracks, but I was brought back eventually. I got my skill back quick and subbed 1:59 within a day. However this quick pring didn't last. It took me a week of playing to ultimately get 1:58.706, a time ranking 4th in the world. I was unbelievably happy as my hard work paid off. I now stand at #20 on the pp.

Since then, nothing too interesting has happened really, so I'll end this long story here. I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me and supported me on my long journey to success. You guys are the best  

Welp, here goes nothing. Well my journy in MK7 started in Feb of 2012, before that I wanted to get a 3DS and SM3DL, I got the 3DS, but SM3DL was out of stock, so instead I got MK7. I wasn't very active at all, and getting KIU and SM3DL didn't help with that either.
But soon I found out about the MK7 communitys, like 1UP and others, which is what got me truely active in the game after I got my 3DS XL for my B-Day (RIP to it btw). For 6 months i played online very actively in the commnuity, but sadly in Feb of 2013 my 3DS XL broke, the inside of it somehow got wet, and I could no longer use any wireless functionallitys on it, if i tried, an error would pop up and force me to shut it off.

My activity died down, but i still had my old 3DS so i began to WW and gain VR, with that I began to discover many new people and add them, such as Sam, he and someone else called RG got me into TTs, though not competivly, though not yet anyways. Though in the summer of 2013, my [R] broke, this nearly made me quit the game for good. Even with this (and ACNL) I still played MK7, though i could only do battles. After the long summer of 2013 I FIANLLY got another 3DS XL for my 14th B-Day. With that I began to race once more. One of my main goals was to get 50k VR, and max coins. Then miiverse came along and I met EVEN MORE people, and some poeple that hated me.
On 3-29-2014 I had reached max coins, which was AWESOME for me at the time, I had also gotten 50k VR in Dec of 2013. Many monthes had past, then on miiverse, I met Evan, wallace, Darren, and a few others. We became pretty good friends and we still are, though I rarely ever talk to Darren and wallace  
They got me back into TTs, though I still mainly WW for the most part.
On 3-17-2015, I reached max wins, boy was that awesome. I bought the New 3DS XL, this later would be a live saver for me in MK7. In April my right hinge broke off on my 3DS XL, so I transfered my data to my New 3DS XL. Then on 5-10-2015 I reached max VR. In this summer I got even more into TTs, getting times like 01:38.4xx on RR and whatnot. In september Evan, Sam, and Elias finally convinced me to join the MK7 PP, starting off at #118. Since then it's motivated me into TTs even more, getting times like 01:37.94x on RR, 02:09.996 on rKC, 01:05.130 on MW G, which is 8th AR, and 01:27.326 on rDC NG, which is 10th AR. Im currently 81st on the PP.

This game is awesome and I hope will countinue to be for many years to come, and I hope you guys will be as awesome as you always have too.  

Mine won't be very long. Basically I was fanboying some players I played online. So I typed in that player + "Mario kart" on Google and I found the mariokartwii.com forum. I didn't make an account though for many months because I felt very shy. So yeah. Then I just joined the community.

I got MK7 in April 2013,  but I really didn't play it much until July 2015 (not even two years ago lol).

I noticed all of these pro players in the community on Miiverse, and I wanted to try and be as good as them (And gain VR  ). At first I only cared about WWs and increasing my VR. I played quite a bit, and got tired of it, and quit until December.

Then I came back, and decided I liked TTs too and played both modes equally. I joined Retro's old clan MK, but never even participated in a war. I was pretty good friends with Brandon at this time and he helped me gain VR (late 2015-early 2016 iirc). However, he left for MK8 eventually, and at that point (About April 2016), I wasn't into WW's anymore.

Then May came and on the 3rd, and I discovered and joined the PP. I think I started at #224. My best time was 1:12.886 on rMC2. When TvK updated and created my account, I noticed Noah who was 200th, which was my goal. Then I was like "Wait, he's that guy on Miiverse. I need to beat him!" This is where things get interesting. I started TTing more than usual, and got to #212 when I got into the news for the first time (Maybe Evan remembers...?).

Then I started playing TOO much, way too much. I cut AF points too quick and it suprised some people. I really regret doing that, but I can't undo it. In that time I got my first top 100 on rWP, and my first AR top 10 on DKJ G. I played a lot all the way through 2016. I passed so many people that played much longer than me like Noah, Kyle, Orange, Shoryu, Evan, Matthew, Adam, and Tissue Box. I was in the top 70 at the end of 2016.

Then 2017 hit. I had played too much MK7 (I'm never telling anyone my hours for 2016  ) My parents took my 3DS and my phone for this reason. Let me tell you they were not happy. I got depressed after realizing what I had done, and even after getting my 3DS back, I just couldn't touch it for a while. I only played the game once to get a rKC time, but other than that, I really didn't play the game again until the beginning of April.

It's April fools day. Jack decides to come back that day out of all days.   I notice this and it motivated me to come back. The next day I got my first PR in a while on BC. I played the game again, but not as much as 2016 (thankfully). From that time to the present I've climbed about 10 spots and got my greatest achievement, the AR on DH. It's been a weird journey. Now I just want more wins that Evan on this rivalry: http://www.mariokart64.com/mk7/rivalry.php?pids=402;119;388;460;507  

Hopefully that wasn't too long...

I got mk7 back on 12/07/12 (on my 11th birthday) and it was my first digital game for my 3ds. I would hardly ever play it, since I was into mkw more at the time, but when I would play it, I always felt better than my opponents around me. That digital only got to around 3500vr before I broke my 3ds and lost that data for good. I ended up getting a second 3ds on Christmas of 2014, with mk7 being my first games to re-download. When I found out I couldn't find my old data, I stopped worldwiding till around March of 2015. During that time, I found my first mk7 stream, which was from TheAwesomeMicheal, or Mic as most of us call him now. During the first stream I was with him in, I, being my cocky self, thought I was better than him just to see my ass whipped. That first stream started an on-again off-again friendship with Mic. Around mid-2015, I started playing in other mk7 streams, which led me to Anthoflex and Drybones81 (or db), who both later became friends with me. In around September of 2015, Mic turned most of my friends against me, which left me alone and broken, during this time, I turned to the only friends I had left, db and Antho, they helped me get back on my feet, and by December, I got some of my closest friends back. By March of 2016, I created my first (and so far only) clan Shinesparkers and I also got to meet Akira, Sarah, and Hiro on Skype. I guess the last thing that I need to mention is how I got into time trialing; when Shinesparkers was formed, Drybones would always posts his times in our chat, and it made me interested into time trialing, and right before I joined, Sarah joined player's page, and since I'm super competitive, in June or July 2016, I created my player's page account, and that's where I am now.

Huh, I thought I already posted my story here...

I'll edit this post later with my boring story.

Edit: Here it is:

I'm going to start with my first Mario Kart game: Double Dash!!  This was the game that introduced me to Mario Kart, It still holds a special place in my heart to this day.  However, I wasn't, and still am not good at the game.  I played a decent amount of time trials, but wasn't good enough to beat the staff ghosts (back when they were somewhat challenging).  I came back to the game briefly a couple years ago and messed around with the "A tech" but I couldn't charge mini turbos fast enough.

Mario Kart DS was my second of the series, I got it for Christmas way back in 2006.  I remember playing a lot of time trials once I learned about snaking.  I thought I was "pro" until I searched "mario kart ds time trials" on google which brought me to the MKDS Players' Page.  Back then, I believe David Roldan was #1, either him or Thomas Bolton.  I checked out their Figure 8 Circuit videos and saw them using a glitch called PRB (prolonged rocket boost).  It's exactly as it sounds, you keep your top speed from the rocket boost by snaking at super fast speeds which allows you do drive in off road without slowing down.  Unfortunately, my thumb was never fast enough to learn it properly.  I have quit this game for good now, my thumb gets very sore while snaking.  However, I did submit my times to the PP back in 2015 and I'm currently #433 out of 798.  Not bad!

My next MK games were 64 and SMK.  I bought MK64 on my Wii but could never get into it.  I couldn't figure out how to drift or get mini turbos so I left that game quickly.  SMK was pretty much the same, very slippery, difficult controls frustrated me until I gave up.

I played MKW next, easily my least favourite Mario Kart.  I never owned the game, but I played it a bunch at my friend's house.  I never liked it, so I never bought it.  Over powered bikes, Funky Kong + Flame Runner clones, broken tracks...It just wasn't for me.

And that brings me to Mario Kart 7, by far my favourite kart of them all.  I got the game for Christmas in 2011 and STRUGGLED to unlock all the characters, kart parts and 3 stars.  Grand prix was actually really hard for me.  I'd always be getting rekt by blue shells on the final lap which would ruin my 3 stars!  I played online casually with my irl friends and we discovered the infamous Maka Wuhu glitch.  I always saw people driving off the cliff and into the lake, so I followed behind and couldn't believe Nintendo overlooked a glitch that big and easy to pull off.  That's what motivated me to time trial, I grinded MW until I had around 1'11 and thought I had the world record (cringe).  I searched something along the lines of: "maka wuhu world record" on YouTube and found AdroMaster's 1'04"394, his video blew me away and led me back to this site.  When I joined the MK7 PP in early 2012, there was not even 100 people and we had to email our times to the yahoogroup.  In February of 2012, I reached my peak rank at #55 out of 112 players.  I would play on and off after that for the next little while until I found one track that was particularly good at: Mushroom Gorge.  In October of 2012, I decided to grind rMG until I had a 1:38.267 and then shortly after, a 1:37.336 which was ranked 8th on the PP at the time.  Then in 2013, when yahoogroups got "updated" it made sending in and updating times very difficult and the Time updating thread was created soon after.  This prompted me to join the message board in May of 2013 after lurking the forums for about a year.  I never joined before because I felt very intimidated and thought I'd make a fool of myself (I still do).  Also at that time, the Maple Treeway glitch had just been discovered and I played the track for a week and got my first ever worldwide top 10, a 7th ranked 1:53.687!  In June of 2014 I got Miiverse on my 3ds and I met so many awesome people in the MK7 community, I don't want to accidentally forget someone, but you guys know who you are.  A few POW's, American Records and WW top 10's on rMG bring me to now.  My current best time in this game is a 1:33.742 on Mushroom Gorge, achieved in March of 2016.  My activity has steadily dropped over the years, but I still like to hang around, get a PR, write a news update, and enjoy this awesome community!  

My god I didn't think I'd write that much, I salute you if you actually read through all of that.  I probably forgot a bunch of stuff, but that is roughly how I got into this game and the community.  I could go on but I think I'll wrap it up.

tl;dr I YouTube'd "maka wuhu world record"

ps. I also played MK8(D) and Super Circuit, not important to the story though.