17 year-old sets world record for longest continuous session of ‘Dance Dance Revolution’

While his endurance is what’s being celebrated here, his actual form and technique is most certainly not.

Alexander Skudlarek from Rochester, Minnesota, has just set the Guinness Book of World Record for “longest video games marathon playing DDR”. Yes, it was an actual title. The previous record was 15 hours, 17 minutes and 44 seconds, which Skudlarek shattered with 16 hours, 18 minutes and 9 seconds. That’s not him above, btw. I’ll explain in a second.

Skudlarek instead can bee seen in action here (for some reason, I’m having problems embedding the clip directly onto here). It’s not stated, but I would have to assume that its from the actual record setting run, because…

Gee, where to begin. For starters, I know poking fun at a 17 year old kid is not the coolest thing in the world, and while I would normally agree, am making an exception here. First off, if you’re going to set a world record, I would have to suggest wearing anything but a Chuck E. Cheese shirt. Just saying.

But furthermore, his form is hardly impressive, sorry. Not that I could do any better, but then again, I don’t think I’d look that much worse either. Hence why I can only assume that this was in the later stages of his run. Though it’s also worth noting that he was allowed 10 minute breaks at the end of each hour. Which makes sense; dancing for 16 hours straight is insane, but still…

That then begs the question, does the overall quality of one’s game playing also count? I bring this up because of this important detail, via Kotaku: “What’s cool is that Alex isn’t even a DDR freak. He’s a gamer, sure, but a gamer who also has an interest in the Guinness Book of Records, and as such simply looked at the book and figured which of the video game categories he thought he could beat.”

Sorry, I hardly find that “cool”, but rather obnoxious, and very much telling, that he really wasn’t into it. I mean, the dude saw and opening and took advantage of it, yet the whole thing still leaves me with minor douche-chills. So can I get in the Guinness Book of Records for playing X game the longest amount, even if I don’t care about it, and my lack of interest shows?

I had always assumed that the person with the most hours on a pogo stick is simply a feather in one’s cap, to accentuate how much they love the act of hoping in place. No wonder gamers get no respect, with shameless antics should as these. Meanwhile, upon further investigation, someone else broke the record as well, and then some.

That would be Travis Houk, from Knoxville, Tennessee, whom you see above, after his 40 hour, 2 minutes and 12 second long run. Tail end of which can be seen here…

This is from last month. So what’s the deal? To be honest, this isn’t the first instance in which Guinness hasn’t been on the ball about proper record keeping. Though more importantly, Houk clearly gives more of a rat’s ass about DDR than Skudlarek.

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