This 9-year-old is better than you at Guitar Hero

by Richard Mitchell on Dec 27th 2007 1:00PM

It's sort of like the perennial Rubik's Cube gag. You see some guy fiddling with the famous puzzle toy, saying something like "these things are impossible; nobody could solve this." At that moment, a plucky young tyke will come along, pick up the toy, and solve it within seconds. Now apply said gag to Guitar Hero III and the song "Through the Fire and Flames" by DragonForce ... on Expert. Watch the video above and see 9-year-old Ben crush every ounce of Guitar Hero pride you ever had. Gasp in terror as the boy even has enough time to glance away from the screen in order to smile at the camera. In the end, he winds up landing 95% of the notes and earning a score of over 750,000 points.

Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to weep softly in the corner for a few hours.

[Via Gamertag Radio]

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Tags: activision, ghiii, guitar-hero-iii, red-octane

Reader Comments (69)

Is the guitar even on? It doesn't look it.

If you go to this kid's, (or maybe it's his parents, idk), youtube page, you'll see that this kid has been consistently amazing for a while now. MAD PROPS!!!

To betsworth08: you're a noob. It's not easy expert. He has hyperspeed on. And there's nothing easy about it, alot of advanced players prefer it because it spaces out the notes, thus making the measures alot easier to read.

To elmersglue: dude, I'm half decent at GH, and I got an 86% on TFaF on expert. I think some people like the challenge and Harmonix has done a great job recreating the learning curve of playing the guitar. Some people just read into games alot harder, I guess...

and To Rob Z (and I guess Zimmerman): he "tapped" the beginning. It's a real guitar technique made famous by Eddie Van Halen, and I think the guys at Harmonix are awesome for incorporating it into the game. In TFaF, you hit that first note once and however you'd like to do it, you can "tap" that first section out, just like Ben's doing. Actually, numerous songs on GH (most notably this song and Jordan) incorporate "tapping", using both hands to hit those really hard passages instead of one on the fretboard. Ya noob...

...and for any doubts on this kid's cred...

So basically, this kid (Ben) is a regular on scorehero.com, a site that lets you post your scores on Guitar Hero I, II, 80's, & III. The site's actually so legit that Harmonix Founder & CEO Alex Rigopulous donated a significant amount of money and cred to the enormously community-driven site, so it's like the holy grail of Guitar Hero-ness and "beberle2" is like a god to the posters there.

That was one of the better Joystiq comments that I've read, from someone who knows what hes talking about.

Finally.

Except that Harmonix didn't make GH3, Shittersoft did.

Ben's good at Guitar Hero series, hope he can pick up a real guitar

there are so many ways this video can be proven wrong.

Something that I just realized: Where the Fuck is the Xbox 360?

you're right, this kid is better than me.

i can pass this song on Medium, but not without my fingers falling off.

damn youth... now GET OFF MY LAWN!

/only 28, so not really old... just feeling it after watching this

why does he not strum in the very beginning what so ever is that possible?

for some reason, the south park episode "Guitar Queer-O" comes to mind...

Yeah but how good is he at heroin hero?

I think its a fake.

They never ever actually show him activate star power and if you watch, when it is turned on you can't see him. Except in one instance when we could see the side of him when it was activated and the guitar wasn't tiped up to do it. Which means this is either fake or less likley he uses the button to activate star power. Also for the harder sections of the song the camera went off him. Add to this his hands really dont look like they are doing much when the are shown. Just seems fake. Coulda been someone else there doing it, but I dont think it was him.

Watch his pinkie. Some people even palm it. It's something alot of elite GH players do and you don't even notice it because it's in unison with the song. I didn't even notice the first times I watched it, but that's how crazy this kid is.

This kid's so legit, it's not even funny. He's a GH god.

But yeah, Heroin Hero. I don't think he'd make it. -_-

The "expert" players that I see rarely do the motion to activate star power, it's always the button press

Yeah I can play this song on expert and get a perfect... problem is its on a real guitar... oh wait, thats not a problem.

WOW.....just when i thought i was getting good at gh3. I just started playing on medium :(

I did notice though at the beginning, hes not strumming anything. Both of his hands are on the colored buttons?