Carrie Swidecki is a teacher from

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who holds various dance game world records. In 2010 Swidecki broke the

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for the "longest marathon on a dance or rhythm game", playing ''

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'' for more than fifteen hours. In 2011 she again broke the Guinness World Record for the "longest marathon on a dance or rhythm game" with Dance Dance Revolution, playing for 16 hours and nine minutes. She then broke that record and set a new one in 2012, playing ''

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'' for almost 22 hours. Also in 2012, she set the Guinness World Records for the “longest marathon on a motion sensing dance game” and the “longest marathon on a dance/rhythm game” playing ''

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'' with a

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motion sensor for 24 hours. On June 15–17, 2013 she set two Guinness World Records at the same time (the Longest Marathon on a Motion-Sensing Dance Game and the Longest Marathon on a Dance/Rhythm Game) by playing '' Just Dance'' for 49 hours 3 minutes 22 seconds, thus becoming the only person in the world to hold a world record for marathon play on all three major dance games: Just Dance, Dance Central, and Dance Dance Revolution. She was formerly overweight and has lost 75 pounds through

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. On October 6, 2018, she was inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, Iowa. Of this milestone achievement Swidecki says, "Somewhere there is a little girl who is playing a video game, reading a Guinness World Records Gamer’s Book, and dreaming of doing extraordinary things with gaming. Today she now knows that’s there’s a place for her in Video game history. Today that door will be permanently open for the next generation of female gamers! I know that little girl is out there, because I was once her."

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