Question about FPS in Benchmarks

Ok, I am going to take as an example, the benchmarks at the main site of course.

There is still something I dont understand.

Lets say, the minimal framerate for games to run 'Ok' is 20 FPS, or maybe make it 30.
Probably the 'normal' framerate is 60 (as in, how fast games are designed to run, providing the best gameplay/graphics experience as possible).
(What is the 'normal' framerate for most games btw)

And now I see +100 FPS in the benchmarks... what does this mean? That for the purpose of running the tests, the framerate limit was disabled?
So you would basically get game characters running at 'unplayable' speeds, like going on dope?
Is that it?

Thank you

OK thanks picture_perfect, for the reply.

I didnt know that the monitor's refresh rate was related to the framerate.

While I understand game engines are set to a given speed, Im still uncertain about my second question...
I know they are set to lets say, 60 FPS, so that in case things run "faster" in your PC you will still be able to control the characters and such in a normal way...
But then that is why I asked, what is it like to run @ lets say 150 FPS like on the benchmarks on the VGA charts in the main site... are the characters so fast that are difficult to control etc... and did they use some kind of framerate limit stopper (game commands etc) in order to get there? (150 FPS)?
Or in the end, what does it mean 150 FPS :?

Thanks

Man you totally own. And I suck pretty hard, because I should have known this A long time ago I tried to make simple homebrew games, and I did some, and I remember making this clock-sync thing... now I grew up thinking this was FPS

Ok, since you seem like a nice guy willing to help the newbies... lets see if I got that analogy right.
If I take lets say, a "movie" of the videogame... where each frame in the game is a picture in the movie (I know, stupid analogy because of video format's own "framerate" etc), if Im running the game @ 20 FPS.. this means Ill get a "jumpy" video with a lot of "dropped" frames.
If I run it @ 60 FPS ("normal" rate), then I get a smooth video.
If I run it @ 200 FPS I still get a smooth video but probably with a lot of "discardable" information, since I could get a good video with the 60 FPS.

Am I right here then?

And thank you very much again!

Yes you could say I am into it

Ok thanks again for your answer

yep maybe someone has a more accurate answer. btw game development sure would be fun. too bad competition in the field turned me off when i was considering school. i suppose its even worse now. looks like a lot of hard work fo' sho.