This is a video from a recent World Table Tennis tournament match between Kristian Karlsson and Lin Shidong where Kristian whiffs a swing at the ball, but takes another quick swing and does hit it, then Lin catches the ball not realizing it was still in play. Talk about reflexes!
These are a couple videos of Turkish fashion designer Musab Kaya demonstrating his folding prowess by quickly folding pairs of jeans in his store with a lightning fast snap. In the second video he even does it all one-handed. It probably goes without saying, but if the internet doesn’t start
To promote his new appropriately titled movie Selfiee, this is a video of Bollywood star Akshay Kumar setting the Guinness World Record for most selfies taken with different people in three minutes, with a respectable 184. He actually took 209 total, but 25 were disqualified due to being blurry, as
Because the need for speed is real for some people (I have the need for naps), this is a video of a Division 1 superkart in action. The tiny 450-pound (including driver) kart is powered by a 100HP 250cc twin-cylinder engine and 5-speed manual gearbox capable of hitting 0 –
These are two videos (the second being the NIGHT MODE version I was hoping for) of a (potentially modded) Tamiya 4WD scale race car speeding around a mini race track at speeds so quick it’s hard to believe it can go so fast. Of course it’s also hard to believe
This is a video of a Costco baker scoring the tops of its loaves of country French bread IN A HURRY. Dude must be late for a date. Or opted to get paid by the loaf instead of hourly. Whatever the case, this guy is quick with those knives. But
This is a video imagining what the retired Concorde jet’s Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) cruising speed, or around 1,350MPH, looks like at ground level. It’s definitely fast, but things really don’t go by as quickly as I thought they would. Now what I really need to see
This is a Thrasher compilation of some of the best San Francisco hill bombs performed by skateboarder Sean Greene, runs that can only be described as entirely too steep and a bad idea. I like how with the speed he generates he can easily ollie over an entire crosswalk. Me?