585 builds. No single best.

Mario Kart 8 gives you four build slots — driver, body, tires, and glider — with thousands of combinations. Antoine Mayerowitz's explainer reduces the readable speed/acceleration space to 585 unique builds, then filters it to 14 Pareto-efficient options before adding mini turbo. 1

The useful idea is a two-step decision rule: remove choices that another build beats on every tracked metric, then choose among the survivors based on your own preference. The Hacker News thread was already above 800 points when checked, but the math is the real reason to care: it makes the trade-off visible without pretending there is one universally best kart. The explainer also flags its own limits — averaged gear stats, derived stats that are not always linear, and a hidden utility function. 2