World Record Progression: Zelda The Wind Waker HD Speedruns 

Gymnast gets WR: "nice" Linkus gets WR: *asphyxiates*

That moment when the current WWHD world record is shorter than its progression video

gym's reaction to item sliding still is the greatest thing ever

Speedrunners in general reaction on WR: OMG!! I DID IT, FINALLY, I AM SO TIRED, HOLY S*** Gymnast reaction: neat

All that back-and-forth between Linkus and Gymnast, then IMiles comes and steals the sub-1-hour right from under them.

28:20 "I found a glitch in Wind Waker HD that makes you go very very fast."

I love how this is essentially a Speed Running Documentary, and it's a great look at WWHD for people like me who only heard about speed running post-barrier skip.

I seriously can’t get enough of speed running history videos. I haven’t played most of these games but I find these videos super interesting

the contrast between the linkus and gymnast reactions are great. Gym: "neat" "nice" "not too bad" Linkus: "Lets go, there it freaking is" "I FINALLY GOT IT" *hyperventilates*

Wind Waker is truly a beautiful game. I love the art style and the music.

I was here. This is great that you made this. Thanks to summoningsalt for starting the trend. Can't wait for barrier skip and superswims to come into the equation. PAUSA

I deed barrier skeep! I deeed eeet

What I really love about documentaries like this one are how they honor those who came before. Ruth, Ali, Gymnast. All went farther in their sport than any thought possible, but eventually their records were (or will be) broken. There is always one to surpass the titans of the past. Instead of the name on the record being casually changed and the limelight being all that matters, these documentaries allow us to remember every little step forward and the people who made them possible. Thank you for this, Linkus.

Gymnast’s reactions his first time seeing item sliding are hilarious

Well, this is something I really didn't expect from you, Linkus! Been watching you for some time and I have to say, there's no better person to create this video than yourself, having been in the Speedrunning community for so long, getting involved in discovery of skips, creating tutorials simple enough for anyone to understand. I hope this gets you a lot of attention! Nice work.

I feel there was a missed opportunity with item-sliding. Since it was discovered right before SGDQ, imagine the person planning on running WWHD at the event finding out about it, putting in the practice, and bopping WR by a considerable margin live.

Linkus. You don't understand how long I've waited until you've uploaded this. You're awesome

44:10 Wait, so theres where the “I deed eet!” comes from

Not specifically WW HD related, but I remember when Jiano had some big scheme on a speedrun back when most people were really only doing ALTTP, OOT, and MM speedruns. One night, Jiano busted out what he was working on: A speedrun of the original Wind Waker. It was so new to me, that I ended up staying up til 3 am to watch his like... 6(?) hour speed run of it, and it was glorious. I can't even remember what year that was, it was so long ago. I think Cosmo started getting into WW speedruns soon after. Then WW HD was released, and things have come so far. Really cool to see. Love progression videos like this.

Been waiting on this since you said you were making it at AGDQ! 😁

"Gannondorf has come again, a being of pure malice" Toon link comes in "Aight give me an hour"

Such a satisfying placement of adds during the video ❤️ I wish more RU-vidrs did it like this. It makes the video much more enjoyable to watch while also supporting the channel.

Someone gets a wr: OMGGGGGGGGGGGG I GOT WR HOLY SHIT AHHHHHH Gymnast gets a wr:cool

Amazing progression. How far things have come.

no one better to make this than Linkus! Great job linkus keep it up!

Pausa for a Causa.

Generally one of the most fun Speed games to watch and run, Cheers for an awesome summary Linkus

WWHD and barrier skip in particular is what introduced me to speedrunning. What a community this is. I've been consistently blown away by how interesting the deconstruction of games is, and how friendly and skilled the people who do so are. You in particular Linkus (and Gymnast) are a great inspiration. I've only become more interested in WWHD and your channel as time has passed! I'm not much of a runner myself - I gave Sunshine a few tries and didn't have the dexterity for it, but I'm becoming increasingly motivated to get my hands on WWHD. I've tried to get my Dad's side of the family to watch your stuff, and met with some success since they're also Swedish. (Hi from Borås/Ulricehamn btw!) Keep up the great stuff, and I look forward to seeing more from you soon!!

These fools, they thought it was a childish game but they didn't sploosh yet.

I love all these WR progressions, and i love when the people making them were in the scene while these records were being broken, it adds to the watching experience imo.

39:35 "I heard of in the zelda comunity" *cough* zfg *cough*

Yes I was looking for a world record progression for my favorite game. It's also really nice coming from someone who knows the game very well and is very knowledgeable with these topics great job.

Just started 100% running a few months back and you've been a huge help, thanks man!

To think my childhood could be done in roughly an hour is insane. Speedrunning is so cool

No matter how many runs I see twwhd will always be special to me as the first one I was interested in. Thank you so much for your pre barrier skip run at agdq, without it I wouldn't have got into this amazing community.

very excited for this. thank you for contributing so much to the community!

Perfect positioning, with perfect aiming and perfect bomb placing on the perfect frame. That's a lot of perfects, son!

When Mom says: Bed time in 1 hour but you *really* wanna play The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker

I didn’t even know manual super-swimming was a thing due to how out of the loop I was with the WWHD speedrunning community, neat stuff! I love seeing the various world record progressions, so thank you for putting this together.

was looking forward to seeing this. did not disappoint.

smh linkus! Bleeping out the swears on gymnast's super swim clip, but missing it on girtana's barrier skip! :P

"I have taken your precious Zelda." 14:10

you are a god men, ty for all the work

Oh HELLL YEAS. I love these docs, and Linkus is the perfect man for it.

Awesome video! WWHD has had one of the wildest rides of a WR progression in gaming history.

From over 5 hours to under 1. It's amazing what a bunch of gamers who really really want to go fast will figure out.

watched this in 2 sessions, amazing video linkus. we really appreciate what your're doing for the community :)

And 3 more sub1s today! Nice video a WR progression video is what got me interested in watching speed runs, these are so great for generating interest

thanks for making these kind of videos , its always amazing to watch them , especially since for alot of games i might know a few glitches, like a hess in oot , loading zone storage in paper mario , superswim in windwaker but i dont know when they were found , for wwhd , i just know the SD version of making a superswim , pulling the windwaker out while falling was fixed its always great to see these type of videos that explain all these things

Great review! I wouldve added that It took like 9 months to find a consistent setup for barrier skip.

I like how people started splitting earlier and earlier at the end of the game

Omg it's here, and it's over an hour.

Came back to watch this after the GDQ run. I really appreciate this video! :)

Two years later the record was lowered by nearly ten minutes. Awesome game.

This was very entertaining to watch! Very good video!

No background music during the majority of all the explanations happening :( Easy fix, but makes a huge difference imo

top 10 hour long youtube videos of all time. The amount of effort put into this was substantial.

Nice job. Was really eager to watch that video since you talked about it at GDQ. Thanks for this! Keep it up.

I love these sort of videos. The passion in these runs is very admirable. I really wish I had the time and means to invest into accomplishing a Speedrun.

honestly one of my favorite videos on youtube

Absolutely love this video and the whole progression / analysis take on it. Been a fan since your run at AGDQ, and maybe I'll catch you live one day!

Linkus’ accent makes this video go from great, to MUST WATCH. great job, linkus! pausa for a causa.

I've been waiting for this. Thank You Linkus!!

Thanks for the time and effort that was put in this awesome timeline video. Great job for the efforts that everybody put in this speedrun. I was kinda tracking some of the stuff but damn. Seeing this aligned and all made it much more interesting and i cant wait for more videos.

Really appreciate all the effort you've put into this. Great video to cap off my night.

You're work is greatly appreciated. Thank you

We should create a term, a new value for speed when you go at uncapped speeds, super swim speeds, backwards long jump speeds. BLJ speed.

Very well-made video, ended up watching the entire thing

“But then in January 2018, this happened....” *ad starts playing* Ahh I see. You sold out.

i love linkus' voice its so soothing lol

These speedrun progression videos are such a delight. Thanks for doing one for WW, Linkus! Liked and subbed

Awesome video! Nice to see everything that goes into a run.

It's really nice to see someone who loves his game to talk about its speedrun history

This man should be the next smash bros announcer

Its fucking amazing seeing an actual top runner make the WR progression

GYM is totally the hero of this story while Linkus and Miles are the villians

Great video! I loved every second, well done Linkus :)

The ebic battle between gymnas and linkus

love watching these vids you make explaining it! ive watched several over the years. super interesting!

great video dude. enjoyed the whole thing

I was expecting this one day. Thank you very much

that was a fantastic video, keep up the great work

This was awesome to watch! Thank you for this

Information-wise this is really solid, Linkus. I'd only say that perhaps work on your presentation. For instance, although the lines are pre-recorded, there are several moments where you say "um" and "uhh," and pauses where you trip over your words, which suggests to me that perhaps you were trying to do few takes and didn't want to re-record. But it comes across as being somewhat low effort, even if that isn't truly the case. Besides that, having long stretches of just narration with no background audio makes it feel a bit lifeless. This is a long video so I know providing a soundtrack for the whole thing can be an issue, but even if it were just ambience without a specific song that would help live it up a bit. Sometimes the opposite problem is true however, where some clips seem to have audio for no apparent reason? (20:20) Other things could have been significantly cut shorter, such as Girtana's video (27:57). Also the following video is a good example of one that probably would have been better suited for commentary than showing so much of it for so long (51:41). In another case, your commentary wasn't synced with the clip you were commentating, where-in you're explaining the clip well after what you're explaining had already occured (35:10). Regardless, I enjoyed this very much, I look forward to seeing more produced content like this and seeing improvements!

Fantastic video! Thank you so much for all the effort you put into this.

Hahah amazing video mate - that bit where that guy discovers the warp speed glitch is so epic and curious hahah it’s like he stumbled upon the holy grail lol

I feel like speedrunning any% down to sub 1 hour for any game is an inevitable thing that will always eventually happen. It's just a matter of time because speed runners are incredible

It would be cool to see a World Record Progression video by the main speedrunners of various games. Would also help people who aren't familiar with games understand the history behind them.

42:35 ear rape warning, rip headphone users

Gymnast is now a pioneer of skyward sword speedrunning

Linkus vs. Gymnast running any% is like mommy and daddy battling each other over who gets to watch TV in the living room

This was really well done, you did a good job!

I couldn't guess Linkus is from the same country as me... Saw it now when looking him up at speedrun.com after seeing this pleasant and well made video. My English is bad and might not hear differences that well, but this Linkus-dude doesn't sound like your typical swede on YT speaking English imo =)

I really like this. Probably could've credited Summoning Salt with the Idea.

I didn’t realize people complained about the long travel times, I thought they were somewhat mesmerizing when I played this game when I was younger because how expansive the ocean was, but I guess I can see where they are coming from looking back on the game

I'm so glad you covered this

what an amazing history lesson

Nah this is just linkus fanning over gym for half an hour.

Here before it blows up

The amount of times that I’ve seen Ganon get killed today is actually stupid