Elon Musk claims to be one of the 'top 20 Diablo 4 players in the world, but still believes he is a Quake legend even after its best player admitted he "wasn't that good"

Elon Musk, when he isn't suing Blade Runner or fantasizing about using autocracy as a weapon to overthrow the government, or revealing that his self-driving car promise may never come true, is a gamer. You can find him on his alt account, cyb3rgam3r420, that he created to share clips and live streams of his gaming sessions. The 53-year-old dad of 12 has named it.

This paragraph is more damaging to your psyche than the articles we normally write. I'm sorry, but there's still more! Musk's current obsession is Diablo 4, one of the games he streamed as part of his ongoing mission to make X a Twitch-killer last year. He's also pretty good at it. Rogan asked Musk, during a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, if Musk was "in Diablo's top 20 worldwide."

Musk admitted that he had been. Musk is one of only "two Americans" to be in the top 20 of Diablo's leaderboards. He and Resistance, the current number 1, are the two. When I say Diablo leaderboards we're actually talking about the Diablo4 Pit leaderboard hosted at Helltides. This leaderboard tracks how fast its participants can blast through the game's endgame Pit dungeon, which is super-difficult.

Don't get me incorrect, it's still an accomplishment, but there is always the chance that there's a super-Pit player out there who never submitted their run to Helltides. There are currently 697 entries in the leaderboard, and thousands of Diablo IV players.

Musk is not a bad in Diablo 4. His recent 2:45 max-tier run through the Pit (difficulty level, more or less), has earned him the nineteenth spot on the Helltides Leaderboard. Musk was playing the Spiritborn class, which is currently the most powerful in D4. However, the entire top 400 players were also using the Spiritborn.

A Taiwanese player whose name translates as "Big Thief - Please register for a free health clinic consultation" has a time 2:46. Musk is listed as "Elon Musk," a disappointingly bland comparison. Musk has a lot of catching up to be able to reach the top. The current time is a fast 1:59. If Blizzard does not nerf Spiritborn first.

Musk claimed to be one of the best Quake players in the world on Rogan's podcast. Dennis "Thresh Fong", Quake's best player at that time, disputed this claim, saying Musk "wasn’t very good," although he is "still an OG." Musk, not one to be discouraged, repeated his claim of Quake greatness on this podcast episode, seemingly unaware of Fong's remarks.

Musk told Rogan he uses video games as a way to meditate. "If I play an extreme difficulty videogame, I have to focus fully on the game and it has a relaxing effect, it chills me down." Musk, whatever he says, is clearly better at Diablo than Elden Ring or Quake.