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Nikolaj "ThaRixer" Sørensen is a speedrunner from Denmark.

Nikolaj "ThaRixer" Sørensen is a multi-game speedrunner from Denmark and is currently Rank #1 in Europe in Perfect Dark, and #10 in the world.

ThaRixer started speedrunning in 2011, and through the 2010s managed to climb high up the ranks to achieve notable world records in Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Digimon World 3, and eventually tried his hands with GoldenEye and Perfect Dark in mid 2018.

= Introduction to Speedrunning =

He joined the-elite in august on 2018, where on his first day of joining, was asked to join the wining team Buy the Dip, lead and invited by Luke Szklarz. He accepted and got some decent points for his team. As the pressure was starting to rise between the top 2 teams, people suggested that ThaRixer should start playing Perfect Dark, since points were more easily achievable, since then he was hooked.

ThaRixer started speedrunning in 2011 after being invited to a casual speedrun tournament on YouTube known as IAS or ImASpeedrunner. After the fifth installment of the tournament, known speedrunner Samura1man invited ThaRixer and other members of the community to join Speedrunslive, where daily races of classic videos games would take place. After dedicating most of 2012 to racing, ThaRixer realized that people on SRL and twitch would also stream attempts instead of racing, and this inspired him to pick up Crash Bandicoot 2 and Jak 3 as the first two games he would ever do attempts of.

ThaRixer's first big white whale was Chicago Agent 0:14, which he set out to achieve withing the first week of playing Perfect Dark, and finally achieved it on February 6th 2019, being the third to tie the time with David Clemens and Joris Quevedo. He would go on to achieve Special Agent 0:25 and Perfect Agent 0:26, sweeping all the stages main records.

 

Most of 2013-2015 would be dedicated to running and mostly dominating the competition in Jak 3, where he swept every category world record in 2014. But already back then he would start to dabble with running multiple games. ThaRixer never stuck to a single game, but always maintained focus on never juggling multiple speedgames consecutively. Over the years Jak 2, Kingdom Hearts, Mirror's Edge, God of War, Dog's Life, Digimon World 3, and Ratchet & Clank would become games that ThaRixer excelled at, at the highest level of play. Whether it's an RPG, a 2d platformer, a hack n slash or a first person shooter, you'd never know what he was gonna run next.

 

 

In august of 2018, tharixer joined the-elite. After trying GoldenEye for a little bit at an AGDQ 2018 hotel room he was interested, and upon watching Irie Butler's twitch stream and RWhiteGoose's speedlore series on YouTube, he was set on buying a Nintendo 64, a console he had never owned. On his first day of joining, he we welcomed in voice chat by Sammy Rodgers, Randy Chapman, Charlie Yeudall and Luke Szklarz. ThaRixer joined at the heat of the Summer League 2018, where the top teams were duking it out, attempting to get as many points as possible. He was asked to join the wining team Buy the Dip, lead and invited by Luke Szklarz. They were missing a spot on their roster since Perfect Ace had dropped out. He accepted and got some decent points for his team in GoldenEye. As the pressure was starting to rise between the top 2 teams of the league, people suggested that ThaRixer should start playing Perfect Dark, since points were more easily achievable. Daniel Coelho who was also on Buy the Dip, shipped a cartridge to Denmark and he was hooked instantly.

 

 

The first big white whale that ThaRixer set out to achieve only after a week of playing the game was Chicago Agent 0:14, which at the time was a 2-way tie between David Clemens and Joris Quevedo. Since ThaRixer had not achieved anything super notable in GoldenEye yet, and had also only been in the community for a few months, many people were sceptical on whether or not he would achieve the time. After a 80-100 hour grind, ThaRixer achieved the time but was kept secret until the reveal of [k4]. This was the time that put ThaRixer on the map as a potential new top star of the game. Only a few days prior he managed to achieve Chicago Special Agent 0:25 and Perfect Agent 0:26 to sweep all three of the records on the stage.

 

ThaRixer's approach to the game was a split focus on points and world record times. He realized that to get a good rank he would have to fill his times page, but to get some of the times he really wanted, he needed to prove his skill and set some records, which has lead to his timespage looking a bit all over the place.

ThaRixer's approach to the game was a split focus on points and world record times. He realized that to get a good rank he would have to fill his times page, but to get some of the times he really wanted, he needed to prove his skill and set some records, which has lead to his timespage looking a bit all over the place.