[WR] Erik Akkersdijk 41.31 4x4x4 single and 49.03 average

[Erik]

4x4 WR take 2, maybe this one works:

(still processing)


5x5 WR:

Enjoy!

 

[Escher]

Erik, you are officially ridiculous. i love you

 

[Garmon]

Damn Erik, give other cubers a chance.
Nice solving anyway.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Damn, man. You're the best.

 

[Rama]

Did you know?
Donald 'Duck' Dunn is playing the bass in the song 'Hold on I'm comin''
Erik isn't comin', but he is already there.

 

[BinomDreher]

And all that even without your magic sunglasses!
Congrats Erik

 

[nitrocan]

You are getting scarily fast Erik
The 4x4 video doesn't work by the way.

 

[MistArts]

I sense Dan's revenge.

 

[Hadley4000]

I am very disappointed in your reactions.

 

[AvGalen]

Why do I like these video's so much?
And why did I expect Erik to use a sirtaki as background music? Starting "slow" and speeding up the entire time, plus some Greek "Hoppa's" would have been very fitting

Did you know that:
* Erik got a phone-call asking if he was going to Brussel on thursday?
* Erik asked me for a ride not much later?
* Erik almost cancelled on Friday because he was sick?
* I was actually on time at Eriks place on friday night
* We were even on time in Brussel
* The only reason Erik did so well was because I took over his sickness
* That doesn't stop me from congratulating him anyway

Congratulations again Erik. You have raised/lowered the bar yet again by several seconds, several times, and you made it look so easy this time. I really don't dare to imagine what would happen if you
* Didn't have all those edge-pairing-parities on 5x5x5
* Didn't lock up during PLL at least twice on 5x5x5
* Would ever get a 4x4x4 average without (counting) parities
* l.a.s.t..l.a.y.e.r. skip................

I sense Dan's revenge.

Dan said he isn't planning on going to another competition this year. I know Erik will go to at least 3 more. There will be a fight for these WR's, but I guess it will be Japan, Poland or maybe The Netherlands (Erik or a surprise attack by "unknown" Marc van Beest). Taiwan and Hungary are all doing great as well.
Sigh...... It isn't even 2 years ago that Michael Fung did "the impossible" and got a sub 60 average (and a 51 single). Now we have a sub 50 average (and a 41 single)

 

[Dene]

Why so disappointed after the first 5x5x5 solve? It was still crazy fast! Well done Mr. Akkersidjk, you keep making those records harder for me to catch up to

 

[AvGalen]

Erik was disappointed about the second 5x5x5 solve because it could have been single WR and first ever sub 1:20

When you are Erik you are disappointed for different reasons. Getting a sub-12 average with two +2's would make me very happy, but Erik freaked because he could have gotten the first 10.xx average

 

[smskill12]

wow amazing

 

[Faz]

congrats! (mts)

 

[fanwuq]

You are amazing!

 

[Sin-H]

"We're sorry, this video is no longer available" on the 4x4 video.

 

[TMOY]

It seems to be available agaiin by now.

 

[hr.mohr]

For me it still says: "This video is not available in your country."

Which is Denmark by the way.

 

[Erik]

I think it has to do with the music I put on it, I'll upload a new version with different music now.

 

[cpt.Justice]

I think Erik should be able to beat the 2x2 -> 5x5 relay UWR now