Musk vaulted to the top of a popular videogame. Everyone’s asking where he found the time.
Live MintThis past fall, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s new robotaxi, launched dozens of rockets and spent weeks campaigning on behalf of president-elect Donald Trump. “So many life lessons to be learned from speedrunning video games on max difficulty," Musk wrote on his social-media platform X on Nov. 20, before going on to announce that he’d just cleared the highest tier of a section of the game called “The Pit" in under two minutes. Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast in November, Musk claimed to be one of the top 20 “Diablo IV" players in the world. Musk’s claim that he completed in under two minutes the 150th tier of the Pit in “Diablo IV" shows he is one of its top-ranking players, according to at least one unofficial leaderboard that’s based on user submissions. Others note that Musk’s quick ascension in “Diablo IV" may have been partly due to a glitch that Blizzard inadvertently introduced in October, giving players a way to obtain more power than they’d normally have.