Is there a single word for "going the extra mile"?
Is there a single word for "going the extra mile"?
If possible carrying the connotation, if not the denotation, of being awed and possibly humbled by the lengths to which someone went.
Going strictly for a single word, I come up with outperform and overachieve, neither of which are really 100% fits; or perhaps shined:
Wow, you/he/she really shined tonight
as in, did (whatever it was) like a star. (Although, "shone" as the past-tense form may be more idiomatic in that context.)
Here is one possibility: striving.
Definitely not one word, but one number: 110%.