Top 10 YouTube Challenges - TopX Ep.29
#10: The Saltine Challenge
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Our first challenge is deceptively simple. Eat 5 or 6 saltine cracker, or soda crackers, in 60 seconds. Everyone’s eaten Saltine’s before! They’re tiny little things! How hard can this be?! Essentially this is challenging because the saltines turn your mouth into glue. While everyone is familiar with soda crackers, you’ve probably never really timed yourself while eating them - why would you. Anyway, most people generally start the challenge with one cracker, then realize they’re running out of time and try a to fit a second one in - at which point you completely run out of saliva and it’s basically game over. Not only is this a pretty harmless challenge that you can try at home, it’s also extremely popular. Along with well known YouTubers like Rooster Teeth, this challenge has been featured on TV shows like Good Morning America, and there’s even a town in North Dakota that regularly host a similar competition - this one involving 4 crackers and trying to whistle...good luck.
#9: The Yoga Challenge
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I know we’re starting with the PC stuff, but trust me it’s gonna get pretty nasty soon. The Yoga challenge is exactly what it sounds like: basically two people are challenged with increasingly difficult Yoga positions - but it’s Yoga, how tough can it be? Obviously we’re not talking about the downward dog here: most of the poses that are attempted are pretty advanced. In that sense, saying that the contestants usually try increasingly difficult positions is a bit misleading, because some people never really get past the first one. This is definitely the sort of challenge that’s fun to watch as your favorite YouTuber attempts to kill it. It’s less about how crazy the challenge is, and more about the participatory nature of watching your favorite online personalities goof around.
#8: Not My Arms Challenge
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Yet another challenge that’s more about failure than success, next up is the Not My Arms Challenge. Famously attempted by Zoella, Boyfriend vs Girlfriend and Jenna Marbles, the idea here is you wear a t-shirt with someone else's arms thru it, and try to get ready with their hands doing the work instead of yours. Here’s the time spot where I usually say “sounds easy right?” ..but this really doesn’t. What’s funniest about this challenge is the gender bending aspect. Whether it’s giant man hands on a girl or little tiny feminine hands on a guy, the visuals alone are pretty amusing. But of course, most guys are not familiar with how to put on makeup, nor do most girls know how to shave their face, let alone blindfolded. So, if you’re looking to try this challenge at home, it’ll probably be most effective if you find someone who’s physically opposite to yourself.
#7: Blindfold Makeup + Boyfriend/Girlfriend Makeup Challenge
Somewhat similar to our last challenge, at #7 we have the Blindfolded Makeup Challenge, which again, is just what it sounds like. Essentially, contestants here have their partner try to do their makeup while blindfolded. The difficulty here is pretty obvious: without being able to see, the subject is generally turned into a hideous clown monster in a very short amount of time. Although this is somewhat similar to the Boyfriend Makeup Challenge, which also provides some interesting results...the fun part here is that it’s not really gender specific: Again, half of the fun of some of these challenges is the gender bending aspect. These poor guys…(I would change it to these poor girls, because it’s guys doing the makeup on girls for the most part)
#6: What's In My Mouth?
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I know what you’re thinking and please get your mind out of the gutter - this is serious okay? Actually, all innuendo aside, this next challenge basically makes me want to hurl just at the thought of it...but here we go. The what’s in my mouth is devilishly simple. A person is blindfolded and then has to guess the various foods...or objects...that are being put in their mouth. Im gonna say right off that bat that this whole idea makes me incredibly uncomfortable. This challenge comes down to how creative or evil your friends are. Will you be fed something obvious? Something exotic? Or something that isn’t actually food (BFvsGF and the cat). Trust is very, very important with this one.
#5: The Banana and Sprite Challenge
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You know what, we’re like halfway thru the list and nobody’s really puked yet. I mean, we had some retching with the last one, but no actual vomiting. Well, spoiler alert, the Banana and Sprint challenge is about to fit that bill. Sprite. Bananas. Pretty common stuff right? I bet you think you could eat 2 bananas and wash em down with some frosty lemon lime soda and not feel a thing right? Well, that’s why this challenge is soooo deceptive. I’m no scientist, but dominant theory is that there’s a chemical reaction between the Sprite and the bananas, making the already large volume of food in your tummy expand even more. Chemical reaction or not, the results speak for themselves.
#4: Ice Bath Challenge - Ice Bucket Challenge
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Ya the icebucket challenge is good, but what if you want to just raise your views and subscriber count instead boring old money for ALS? I’m just kidding please continue to support charities, but for right now, check this out… This is the point in the show where I mention again that you probably shouldn’t be trying this at home. In case you haven’t figured it out, the challengers here have to stay in a bath full of icewater for as long as they can. It sounds unpleasant, and it clearly is. Man, everyone wants to relive the fun parts of Titanic, but never the bits at the end, eh? Obviously this is extremely unpleasant, but personally, favorites of mine Rhett and Link found a pretty good way to pass the time while this challenge goes on...
#3: The Gallon of Milk Challenge
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Every likes milk right? Well, wrong, I’m not really a big milk drinker - which is why this next challenge is even less appealing to me...The Gallon of Milk Challenge. Another challenge that basically explains itself, here the test is to see if you can drink a gallon of milk in an hour. That’s 3.79 liters to those of you who are on the metric system and believe in science. Speaking of science, the difficulty here should be obvious. If it isn’t, just grab a gallon jug of anything, hold it against your stomach, and then see if you think you can fit that inside of you. If the answer is yes, please schedule an appointment with your doctor immediately - i think you’re due for a checkup. Anyway, once again, the results of this challenge speak for themself.
#2: The Ghost Pepper Challenge
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Yet another challenge that seems to have been thought up by your evil older brother, our runner up for this countdown is the infamous Ghost Pepper Challenge. Somewhat similar to the wasabi challenge, the ghost pepper challenge involves eating and swallowing a chilli pepper that is high of the Scoville scale - a.k.a. painfully fuckin spicey. Popular peppers include the Habanero, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and the ghost Bhut Jolokia, also known as the ghost pepper. One of the few challenges that causes legitimate physical pain, the pepper challenge is pretty brutal. Contestants often sweat profusely, vomit or even sometimes hallucinate. Take THAT space koyote! Before we get to our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions. HM1: Baby Food Challenge HM2: Touch My Body Challenge HM3: The Smoothie Challenge HM4: The Chubby Bunny Challenge HM5: The Whisper Challenge HM6: 7 Second Challenge
#1 The Cinnamon Challenge
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Our top pick is one is perhaps the most devious - in so much that it’s probably the simplest and the most dangerous. But for you, dear viewer, it sure is entertaining. Our number one pick is the cinnamon challenge. This one’s ultra simple. Eat a spoonful of cinnamon. No beverages allowed. That’s it. Sound easy? Sure, on paper, until you remember to breathe. Basically, this is hard because cinnamon is a fine powder that can easily be inhaled. So, contestants often take a big spoonful and then find themselves gasping for air as the delicious confection spice coats their lungs. This is actually why we must urge you not to try this yourself: you can give yourself some pretty bad respiratory difficulties with this stuff - even a collapsed lung or pneumonia. So, if it’s so dangerous, why did we pick it as the #1 challenge. I’ll let this video of GloZell answer that question for you. Oh man this is good. That’s it for our list! Remember, we strongly recommend that you don’t try any of this at home, and if you really, really must, please never ever try anything like this alone. Be sure to visit our suggest page to vote for upcoming episodes, check us out on twitter, facebook and instagram, and for more amazing Top 10s published every day, be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com!
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