World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion
gravylookoutCited 3× on HN, 2016-2023
41M views · 19 years ago · demo · evergreen
A one-minute clip of Alexander Overwijk drawing a near-perfect freehand circle, one metre across, in under a second on a chalkboard. He is a repeat winner of the World Freehand Circle Drawing Championship.
HN uses it as the go-to example of an astonishingly perfect hand-drawn circle.
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3 comments from Hacker News
This is why I read this site. As I was going down the dotted line chalk rabbit hole I ran in to this: ▶ this video
There are actually people who can quickly draw really good circles. Here's a video of Alexander Overwijk, who has won the World Freehand Circle Drawing Championship numerous times, drawing a circle [1]. Here's Michael Clauss, who ended a streak of 9 consecutive Overwijk wins [2]. Here's some footage of the first World Freehand Circle Drawing Championship in 2007, showing several different contestents [3]. [1] ▶ this video [2] link [3] link
Needs a 2007. "(And by the way, if you want to see a really, really outrageously perfect sphere, check this out.)" Assume it's - ▶ this video