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1:19 · 41M views · Jan 9, 2007
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.
3 comments from Hacker News
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
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