World Record Erik Akkersdijk 5x5 1:16.21 (single)

Dene said:
Oh, well done Mr. Akkersdijk! I dropped 5 seconds today, and so did you! (grrr, how am I supposed to catch up? :p ).
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Awesome Dene! What did you get and what do you average on 5x5? Your getting really good at big cubes now.

ON TOPIC: CONGRATULATIONS ERIK! That's insane, 20 seconds faster than my record. The 5x5 times keep getting faster.
 
hawkmp4 said:
mrbiggs said:
Fobo911 said:
Congratulations, Erik!

Any video on this coming up?
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Holy crap!

Sub 1 soon!?
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Think about what you just said. Please.
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http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=SwedishCubeDay2007

That's a 1:30 WR time on the 5x5x5 less than a year ago.

Granted, 1:30-1:15 is a smaller time decrease percentagewise than 1:15-1:00, but it's hardly out of the question. Especially since big cube times have decreased so dramatically over the last few months. And remember, you only need one very lucky solve.

Do your research before you're sarcastic. It's obviously not likely to happen tomorrow, but I think it will happen in the next year or two. And really, chill out...
 
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1:16..... jesus, thats better than my 4x4 avg. well I guess his previous 5x5 record was too.. just thinking about that makes my head hurt.
 
Ellis said:
mrbiggs said:
Do your research before you're sarcastic.
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I thought you were the one being sarcastic when you said "sub 1 soon!?"... I guess I was wrong.
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Because clearly there's never been a 20% drop in the world record over the course of a year in the history of cubing. Wait a minute...



Honestly, if I told you at this point last year that there would be a 7.08 WR 3x3x3 solve "soon", you'd have had the same response you're having now. Times are dropping fast now; I don't think it's out of line to make strong predictions.


I modified my original post to be less upsetting to the cubing community.
 
mrbiggs said:
I modified my original post to be less upsetting to the cubing community.
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haha, I like the edit. ill take it as a note not to take it any further. just for the record though, I had a really nice response to that last post... but Ill let it go so we can respect how crazy this new record is.

Keeping it on topic... I would really like to know if there's going to be a video of this. I want to see it for myself. I always love seeing erik's reactions to his world records.
 
Yes a video will come up sooner or later, I didnt record it so I have no control over the events, but I hope the ones who recorded the whole solve will upload soon.

The competition was really good and I hope everybody had fun there.

Henrik
 
mrbiggs said:
Because clearly there's never been a 20% drop in the world record over the course of a year in the history of cubing. Wait a minute...



Honestly, if I told you at this point last year that there would be a 7.08 WR 3x3x3 solve "soon", you'd have had the same response you're having now. Times are dropping fast now; I don't think it's out of line to make strong predictions.
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you are comparing apples to oranges. There have been 5 second PLL skips unofficially for while, and 7 second non-lucky solves for just as long. a fast lucky single was bound to happen. the official 3x3 records are still catching up to the unofficial ones.

however, Eriks 5x5 WRs are pushing the borders of all 5x5 solving, so progress is going to come more slowly. You also have to factor in the recent advantages in technology(v-cubes) which will naturally cause a rapid drop in times.

dont get me wrong, i think sub-1 is entirely possible, but not within a year. I am willing to bet that 1:10 will be broken within a year, but not 1:00.
 
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Vault312 said:
you are comparing apples to oranges. There have been 5 second PLL skips unofficially for while, and 7 second non-lucky solves for just as long. a fast lucky single was bound to happen. the official 3x3 records are still catching up to the unofficial ones.
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Yeah, I agree and I realize the difference. However, the 5x5x5 times actually have been dropping proportionately to the times as a whole--like I mentioned, the record's fallen 15 seconds in the past year. Granted, as cubers get better this will level out, but I don't think we've reached that point yet.

Vault312 said:
however, Eriks 5x5 WRs are pushing the borders of all 5x5 solving, so progress is going to come more slowly. You also have to factor in the recent advantages in technology(v-cubes) which will naturally cause a rapid drop in times.

dont get me wrong, i think sub-1 is entirely possible, but not within a year. I am willing to bet that 1:10 will be broken within a year, but not 1:00.
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Well, here we just have a difference in opinion. I don't think we've pushed V-cubes to their limit, and I think that the times are going to keep falling through the floor for a bit.

1:10 in a year is a given. How much it will be broken by...well, we'll just have to see. And hey, that's a lot of the fun of spectating cubing, isn't it?
 
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