How I became the fastest pencil sharpener in the world
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- The most incredible story about pencil sharpening you will ever watch.
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Lots of people asking about where the leaderboard is for this
ITS HERE: www.speedrun.com/pss#In_Real_Life
very epic
Thanks, was wondering where it was at.
Heard rumors of you changing your name to kneecream
G
I can't see u in the leaderboard
Imagine
“Ayo can you sharpen my pencil?”
“Sure” *removes socks*
1 minute later: done!
Yeh that’s weird
"I asked to sharpen pencil, not to completely erase it from existence.."
Pants*
No! Keep them on, otherwise its gay!
Okay but can we talk about that guy in last place who took more than 7 hours to sharpen 10 pencils?
Time stamp ??
Ikr, did he genuinely sit there sharpening pencils for 7 hours??
@@Error-pm3iu it's in the leader board
Maybe he was trying to beat the record for slowest pencil sharpener. It takes some dedication to sit down and do nothing but sharpen pencils for 7 hours
Error 404 4:15
I can’t believe that before Smallant entered the scene, the world record took half an hour to sharpen 10 pencils.
average student in class using an electric pencil sharpener
The thumbnail looks like the local chimneysweep surrendering to the police after he was caught red handed stealing singular a singular lima bean.
Mixed with the fake mr beast pose
So what you’re saying is, this run is pay to win
That was my thought too, especially when he broke out the 'best pencil sharpener money can buy'.
The fact that you need to use premium pencils makes it p2w too
Pretty obvious tho. Like the canadian lumberjack contest, everyone has the best axe they can get or build to specifically match their needs and body.
Basically any competition where you can bring your own gear is pay to win. From Olympic swimming to wild climbers, if you don't have the best gear you're in for a bad time regardless of the level of competition.
@@GreyPunkWolf Wait, olympic equipment isn't standardized for the participants?
Pay to win speedrunning isn't okay, i'll have to boycott that event.
@@LeCheckmate It's only controlled and regulated to avoid cheating. But every participant bring his own gear and medical team. Only the emergency medics are paid by the event. And the cleaning crew obv.
Although they don't pay personally for the gear and insurance, they have sponsors for that
Also sponsors bring them steady income even when they aren't doing competitions so that they can focus only and completely on their training to have the best performance once the competition period starts.
“Is he gonna do the glitch to skip the seventh pencil?” Had me dying.
Well it depends on if he speedruns any% or glitchless pencils
@@ultimateabsol1268 lmaoo
But to perform the glitch is hard thoo... he doesn't have the enough experience levels to do it
He needs to do the sharperner clip then try to get a frame perfect sharpen on the 4th pencil.
I saw that to
1:39 - "Higher quality pencils sharpen easier"
11:09 - "This time... I'm not sure why, when selecting pencils I opted for the premium brand"
I’m late to this but if you read this I love this format. Most streamers just upload their livestreams, sometimes including intros and break times. The commentary over it makes both platforms different and enjoyable. The commentary makes the video feel like more of a story while the stream feels more personal. Good stuff
If nothing else, this series gave you a LOT of mileage out of the “sharpening my skills” pun
Sinister_Eclipse yeah
And “lead” and “write” puns
Good "Point"
It's a triple pun in 1 writing
Mileage: *5,825,139 Miles*
Can't believe I just watched a documentary about a man sharpening pencils
lol same
🤣🤣
It was great tho.
Me too, kid.
Wait I just began ro rethink life..
Bro can we congratulate the man who took seven hours of his life to sharpen 10 pencils. this man is a legend
Rip to all the Pencils and sharpeners we lost during the making of this video
And.. hands.
The title was cut off, so I read it as "how I became the fastest pencil," and I didn't even question it
this needs more likes
Lol
I imagine pencil go brrrrrrrrr
Ur eyes were probably like how tf did he turn into a pencil
Why would you need to question it? Do not question the almighty one.
When your trainer is a guy named footcream calling himself part of the “pencil sharpening dudes”
Lol
Who makes puns in every line of his speech
I don’t like where this is going
@@steamdragon8550 It's the write way to talk.
you mean sensei*
He...
He predicted the "MR BEEEEAST" pose....
This living legend...
EXACTLY
MR BEEEEAST
hello i am a time traveller from the release of this video can you please elaborate
@@baseddepartment6469 no ur not
This is an amazing catagory. Still, there's a lot to come in this record. A wide range of premium sharpeners are still going to be faster, the twin blade one he picked initially being a great choice. The KUM sharpeners at the beginning of the video being another, along with the great name. There's a good array of novel sharpeners out there. But you need to sharpen the blades and replace them when they are overused. Premium pencils are obviously better, but picking the correct wood makes a huge difference. Premium tend to use hardwood instead of the woods cheap pencils use gumming up the internals, I'd presume maple would be the best hardwood choice. However talk to a carpenter to find out which is easiest to plane. Finally I'd think a few miscellaneous tweaks might help too. Lubricant on the inside of the sharpener so it spins freer. Pencils contain graphite which is a great lubricant, graphite powder would be better. Maybe even something like molybdenum dabbed on the end of each pencil or something equally silly could help.
I'm not able to be the sharpening world record holder myself, but I can at least advance the meta for those who are able to compete.
You're a bona fide genius. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. I hope it inspires the next generation of pencil sharpening speedrunners.
As a pencil collector my advice for chocie of pencil would go to Blackwing Pencils, they are made of premium quality cedar wood wich sharpen like butter (They are however super expansive) A even better pencilchoice would go to the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni wich is even more expansive but smooooth. Graphite also plays a big factor, the scale goes from B (soft and dark) to HB (Midrange and most used pencils) to H (Hard and light) So the smartest choice would be using B10 graphite pencils with premium quality cedar wood. And than the choice of sharpener, i am unaware if it's a rule but crank sharpeners are the godtier sharpeners in all aspect, if they are not allowed a Kum sharpeners would be my choice aswell. I want to see a sub 1 minute run now KEKW
The sage shares their wisdom with us mortals. Thank you for your service.
lubricant on the internals would just make the wood chips stick and build up inside.
@@Tosh.O There's many, many types of lubricant. Dry lubricant specifically being one style. Molybdenum being my favoured industrial lubricant, it loves to build up grey stains everywhere but imo typically better than graphite. Both are in powder form, graphite similar to powdered pencil lead which obviously doesn't make the wood chips stick.
Who else kept seeing this in their recommended, and said “why not” and didn’t expect it to be this good
69 likes
It's scary how accurate this is
Yeah.
〇殺人光線 that shit was ass
Read my mind
"pencil sharpening delirium"
"the legendary footcream"
the internet has made some fantastic sentences possible
1:50 "my hands are a Madcatz controller" was my favourite quote
One. 3000 likes to replies
'are u gonna use glitch for 7th pencil' 💀twitch chat is amazing
5:53 the way he says footcream in such seriousness is too funny
at the end it looks like your kept hostage and being forced to sharp the pencils against your will.
Moral of the story: Premium pencils are better than dollar store pencils
@Drasamii A sophie's choice situation, dear god
always use papermate
@@noahbishop4268 what's a "Shophie"? And is it pronounced (Shop-ii) or (Sho-f-ii)?
“Sophie” (So-fee) is a name and “Sophie’s Choice situation” refers to a situation that has both outcomes equally desirable or undesirable
محمد جعفر /Jafar
@@joshuarodriguez2450 oh, thanks! I didn't know that, i usually hear the line "it's a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils" in those situations, but saying it's a sophie choice situation works better.
Imagine an employee seeing him buy 10 pencils every week
“Damn how many pencils does that guy lose?”
Jayfeather The blind boi Not nearly as much as the people I lend them to.
employee thinks "he must be one of those slow people who eats pencils"
This man is just speed running through life, and I'm here for it
Bro was really like "MR MR MR MR BEAST" in the thumbnail 💀
Frr
imagine asking for a sharpener in school, and the guy just says:” dont worry , Im the world’s fastest pencil sharpener” so he takes your pencil, crouch on the ground and turn it to ashes in seconds
laughs in cromartie
:))))))))))
Im the 690th like
*sweats in pencil*
Dam that’s some hargwarts shit
"I wood be happy to lead you in the write direction"
He's speaking the language of gods
"Eye Wood Bee happy Two Lead U in the Write direction"
8 contacnations/puns, can you do better?
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx those are random puns that have no relation to pencils.
محمد جعفر /Jafar those don’t even make sense
@@mortis9023 "Creature of the Night"
You forgot the "We heard that you would like to SHARPEN your skills"
YES. ALL HAIL THE KING OF PENCIL SHARPENING.
And of course credit to the supportive cast and the gods that blessed the final run.
Such a specific task turned into a world record, yet so epic.
This mans is goin to have a tight marriage. Dedication is his life
How get divorce glichtless speedrun
loving each other for the rest of our lives 100% completion run
Unless he forgets about his anniversary and spends the whole day sharpening pencils
@@benderbear762 smallant: *forgets anniversary*
also smallant to his children: is the run dead, guys? should I start over?
Marriage and divorce speedrun category needs to be a thing
Waiting for Summoning Salt to do a "History of" video on this
@Pumlz the "didnt realize what he had just done" towards the end is almost a recreation of some part of summoning salt's mario warpless video
He better
Or Footofaferret. I'd be down for either one.
There’s like 8 world record attempts. The video would be like less than a minute
Hilarious
Electric pencil sharpener: finally a worthy opponent
Bro predicted the mr beast pose💀
Alright can we talk about how good of a sport FootCream was for literally giving this guy his magic tools to beat his own record?
Frfr
.
am I right
They were probably like "eh we'll give him the stuff, but he probably still won't beat it." But when he beat it they were like "well oof"
That how anime character development works
Random kid: can you sharpen my pencil?
This guy: deletes pencil in a millisecond
"Can you sharpen my pencil? I'll be back under a minute"
RIP
Wtf happened to my pencil
Lmao
Is nobody gonna talk about how he predicted the mr beast meme in the thumbnail?
no that shit is as funny as a 11 year olds sense of humor
A rollercoaster of emotions. Gg dude.
Teacher: I hope you’re all paying attention.
The guy in the back:
How is this comment not at the top. I am almost ded out of breath
Oh he’s not Nvrmind
This is comedic on so many levels
I can confirm, 100% accurate.
@@f-seal7193 because of a 50K liked faze orba shit
i’ve watched ant for a little under a year now. this video has shown up in my feed so many times now and i’ve avoided it until now idk why
Near all of SmallAnt’s “how I became…” videos could easily be turned into an anime it’s pretty hilarious.
The real question is how did I get to this point in life to be watching someone sharpen a pencil-
Same
Hear Quagsire's vomit
How did he get to this POINT in his life
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Honestly
I’m just bored in school
“god damn my sharper broke again, bad rng i guess”
Why didn’t you buy the sharpener upgrade dlc?
@@mwells219 😂
This run is totally pay2win
Runs dead
use protection potion when upgrading to prevent breaking up to +7
This is hands down my favourite video. I come back to watch it and I am happy :-)
my goofy ahh after seeing the thumbmail: "MR. BEAST🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥❗❗❗"
He's gonna get so many girls now
Like so many
like so many
like so many
Like so many
like so many
Can we appreciate how the record got from 35 minutes to 3 minutes
And that's where you see the magic of a meme topic made for fun being used by actual legitimate tryharders.
And it's wonderful. Lads are just dead serious and focused at such a ridiculous task it just kills me. Even without the video footages I'd be laughing hard at the leaderboard lmao
The feet are the pencil sharpening equivalent of the XD skip. No even better. Its the equivalent of the night metro skip
Quality pencils
It echoes gaming speedrun progressions so beautifully 👌
Legend says if you put speedrunners to the task they will optimize the shit out of the cure cancer any% category.
Bro predicted MrBeast with that thumbnail
12:38 - thank you for saying sharpening your skills, this made a world of difference for me 🤣
i want to know what convinced the guy to name himself "footcream"
Probably a foot infection
Hmmmmm I don't know, oh MAYBE BECAUSE HE DID IT WITH HIS FEET
Hmmmm creamy
At first the sharpeners were in his hand, and the pencils his feet, so he became the thing he needed the most
God himself
4:15 are we not gonna talk about how someone took 7 1/2 hours to sharpen 10 pencils
Leo Belyi they had to make sure the pencils were all made of the same tree first.
Jesus Christ I didn’t even notice that 😂😂😂
That guy sharpened it with his fingernails alone.
Basically Disabled Veteran Mafia Boss his mom called him to go eat then he forgot about it after he finished eating
knives?
i stumbled upon pokemon speedruns, got blown away how much you know about mechanics and the way you complete challanges ...and when i got to this video i just have to subscribe cause damn boy u crazy and i like it
Only SmallAnt can make an entertaining success story about sharpening pencils.
“Hey bro can you sharpen my pencil?”
*Sits on the floor*
Lmao
😂😂😂😂
Lol here is the stub _ why did you sharpen so much? _ shows leaderboard
(a few seconds later) done!
Lmfaoo 😂
8:14 the fact that it took you 3 weeks or so to realise sitting on floor is more comfortable than a desk chair whilst holding something with your feet, is another world record in itself.
Floor gang
Honestly lol
@Malachi Best oh well
Omg he predicted the wonky MR.BEAST meme
I just cheked the leaderboard and mans is still 3rd place after two years🤯
I mean what did you expect
proof that great youtube content exists
Yes
Hello
Love ur channel and hardcore modded Survival
Ayyy Sockfor1
Lol
"so how did you get laid"
Him: "it's a long story"
"Daddy, how did you meet mommy?"
=
"It all started,,, with a pencil..."
( Yours is funnier )
Both jokes are funny
Dino bro?!
@@kendrewcodes9334 :O
Mr. Dinosuar :O
Mans doing the Mr Beast pose before the meme came out
Thats actully impressive! keep up the good work!
“My hands were torn up a bit “
His hand: literally bleeding
Dw, just minor scrape
tis but a scratch
ice pack.
He’ll be fineeeeeee
but still factory new
This is depressing and I *love* it.
Depression and Love going in the same sentence is music to my ears
A famous TH-camr's comment with only one like? What is this madness?
how is this depressing?
Eyyo Mayro! Love your content! Quagsire!
Hi Mayro
10:40 whenever the teacher told me to sharpen those types of pencils, a smile would come across my face. Used to love the beautiful finish of sharpened, high quality pencils...
lol
Bro forgot about the secret out of bounds clip to skip 3 seconds on pencil 5 and the movement glitch to skip pencil 7 entirely 💀💀💀
his local wamart is probably like "why does this guy buy 30 pencil sharpeners every day"
@@dlspr1586 r/woooosh
blank subscriber without video names is overused wtf how much more obvious can they make it 😂
@@Wonderfullism cuz I'm zeeta Bacchus meriem Ben dahmen airbrush Heroes Heroes Heroes
It’s his routine to buy 30 pencils sharpeners ever 2 weeks
@@dlspr1586 How stupid do you have to be? It was so obvious.
Can we just acknowledge the fact that this man basically made a documentary about speed running pencil sharpening
and I watched the whole damn thing
and I don't regret watching any second of it
And with his feet
The thumbnail... it has a meaning now...
*MR BEAST!!*
MR BEAST ahh thumbnail
Mr. Beast: Plants 20 million trees.
This guy: *_I'm your worst nightmare._*
lol
Wow
Lol this is nowhere near even one trees' worth of wood.
Shut up, child, you aren't old enough to have rights
@@dabirdie1797 h
Press F for the guy who took 8 hours to sharpen ten pencils
F
F
E
E
Dude had a nap in between haha
he did the mr beast pose before it was cool
This was pretty cool. Not only did he inspire others to go for the record, but with a lot of effort he actually took the record. Still, there also needs to be a legless category.
The staff from where he's getting the pencils must be so confused.
Its not that weird to buy a lot of pencils
Just for the kids in my basement
@@abootz5188 wh-what. No
@@telesticgamer8251 it's okay he runs a tutoring service there
“Tutoring”
“So how did you get those muscles?”
“... I sharpened them.”
Lmao
Get out. Take a like with you and get out
@@galladeintheshade4422 no u
You clever bastard I love you
Wait who are you
I never thought I'd be so invested in pencil sharpening
Bro preceded mrbeast
Drilless should be the default. Drill speed runs should be classified as “tool-assisted”
"any % pencil sharpening speedrun"
See I get it a drill is a tool
@@Chimp380 any% is just snapping the pencils, 100% is sharpening them all the way
Nah, there should be drill less and tool less, where you don’t have any pencils.
@@williamwontiam3166 tool less = no pencil sharpener
“are you going to do the glitch to skip the 7th pencil” thank you twitch chat
Twitch chats are full of amazing comments like that
Saw that too! Twitch chat is usually mentally deranged but that gave me hope
Timestamp?
@@gaberusso3892 2:07
@@doozy5920 TY
MR. BEAST
MR. BEAST
MR. BEAST
MR. BREAST
POO BEAST
In the thumbnail he looks like the Mr beast from the rap video
BRO I WAS JUST BOUT TO SAY THAT
Footcream:
Saw the hub-bub about pencil sharpening world records.
Got the world record using his special technique.
shared that technique with you, so you could beat him.
used a bunch of puns about pencil sharpening.
sent you $30 worth of sharpeners.
is nobody talking about this mysterious pencil sharpening legend?
BlockOfWood the Chad footcream
he's the man we all aspire to be
well it woulda been dangerous to go alone, so he gave him this
He's like the mew2king of pencil sharpening
Mom: Why don't you play with the neighbors kid?
The neighbors kid:
I'd play with the neighbors kid all day if he's like this guy.
Bahahaha
Dont judge me 👁 👄 👁
This is gonna blow up so I’m replying
I was obsessive like this about Littlest Pet Shop toys. I had over 100 of them.
10 years later, I was diagnosed with autism. Explains a lot.
What a story - this is actually inspirational
My men is the actual REAL MRBEAST MEN DID THE MEBEAST POSE OMG REAL!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!
the pencil sharpening mentors are so respectable, those two went out of their way and just gave you the materials to become a true master, they could have been the pencil masters themselves, but they saw your determination, your promise, and they gave you the means to truly reach that greatness
There is more to being a master than there is to being the best
@@ewan7746 True, it's not about being the best person in the making, but rather it's about trying to make something better than you could ever be
Maybe they were just fan of small ant
Its also worth noting that they were probably smant fans who found out about competitive sharpenin through his stream, still very commendable tho
Especially the puns they said those were dad joke lvl
This is one of my favorite yt videos of my time
the paper mario TTYD music really sells this video for me, conveys the mood and notably feeling of success perfectly
7:50 "torn up a bit" mans literally cut himself sharpening
Oof*
7:50 is an add 😂
Once in 2nd grade i put my finger in the sharpener and twisted,and half my finger nail cut off
Gabe Russo There’s always one kid, and you just hope it isn’t yours haha.
@@heyitsflydehow
Are we gonna ignore the fact that someone took 7 hours and 21 minutes to sharpen 10 pencils.
my guess is that they sharpened 9 pencils, took a 6 hour nap, found out they miscounted the number of sharpened pencils and then finished the speedrun skfjdfjskfjsdfh
Alex Donát or just completely didnt do it at all until the last hour
yes.
Yes
@@axdonat lol
Come back bro,pencils ain’t the same without you(I’m a pencils mod)
the pose...
“I realized my dream was unachievable”
Oh yes, I too dream of sharpening pencils.
Who doesn't?
And I dream of being drilled by my crush even tho I'm a boy
Grumpy cat fan I do too, bro. I do too
Of all the unachievable dreams I've ever had, somehow this one stings a bit more
Grumpy cat fan I see someone hasn’t watched the dentist
Part of me is impressed, part of me is horrified with how many poor pencils never got the chance to be used
That’s kinda depressing
they did get used... used so much they were gone before they even knew it
They did, they served a greater cause than any writing/drawing could ever dream of getting close to.
It was a sacrifice that had to be made
How much wood got wasted
The thumbnail: Mr beaaaaast
smallant you are a content creating god. just subscribed, thank you for yoru service
"I would like to lead you in the write direction"
I love that they did there
It's wonderful
*wood
@@lightcer3 I didn't even catch that one
"Sharpen your skills"
Gods among men
despite pencils being made out of graphite I think LEAD is a play on words as well, idk if you guys caught that
We not talking about the guy in the beginning who took 7 HOURS to sharpen 10 pencils
xDD Who??
1:00 XD
@@chiokechase7286 Omfg- thank you xD
He sure took his time
worst part is he probably made some poor lad watch the footage to review the time
3 years late but that thumbnail picture is so cute.
It’s truly amazing how 12million people have watched you sharpen a pencil
Update: he broke his own record with a 2 minute 21 second run.
HE WHAT
Nice
@@Howthetoastcrumbled still the record holder
@@bongosmcdongos4190 truly incredible
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