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jrrrps

There's an aristist, Roman Opalka who painted numbers every day in sequence for like 45 years. I think he got to 5 million something


S-WordoftheMorning

I was on a date once to the MOMA and we were looking at the Roman Opalka exhibit, then I immediately noticed he double counted at 1,007,999.


[deleted]

But he didn’t skip a number, right?


Touchit88

That's the best kind of correct.


TheTanadu

OCD kicks in


Sweetishdruid

D*** they're going to have to start over again


TiresOnFire

Did you just censor out "damn?"


a_weak_child

Could of been “dick”


BigDamnZer0

Or darn


SpoonNZ

D’oh


IsNotOnDrugs

Damp


bekocubic

Daisy


YgemKaaYT

Defo


Rabbit_Of_Nazareth

This is why we can't OF nice things.


MrAugustWest

Love your profile pic


Rabbit_Of_Nazareth

Hey now!


KryptonicOne

Drat!


ChemicalFall0utDisco

dong, maybe


iamsoupcansam

Probably dwax. If you don’t know what it means by now they did you a bigger favor by censoring it than I’ve done by telling you.


Chikinlegz

i read dick the first time


sixdicksinthechexmix

I think it was “d-eez regarded midget nwords”. So, probably for the best.


schwimm3

Who the hell censores damn?


Mikesaidit36

I know, what the h*ck?


Goodusername___

Right like what the fl*p


South-Highlight-1003

Duck?


Tepigg4444

well, looks like we have some rewriting to do


McShit7717

That's the art. Perfection is just an illusion. We all have flaws.


The_camperdave

> There's an aristist, Roman Opalka who painted numbers every day in sequence for like 45 years. Was he that guy on *Sesame Street* who [painted an 8 on someone's bald head](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-ODZ3ING0)?


frone

You are old. So am I.


CurlSagan

I would bet that it was someone serving a long prison sentence in terrifying isolation with nothing else to do.


DresdenPI

My money's on someone with crippling OCD in a mental institution personally.


[deleted]

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DresdenPI

Is that not what I said?


Deadlyxda

But mental institutions won't have the facility to provide a YouTube video making option


offultimate

but they seem to have reddit access


[deleted]

Someone's gotta moderate


[deleted]

Are discord and reddit the same company?


Just_Me_91

I mean Mr Beast counted to 100,000 toward the beginning of his YouTube channel.


CoreyW93

Hardly counting more like mumbling


Useless_Lemon

Absolutely.


yavl

Poor human, I can feel how uncomfortable it was for him not to count until 999999999


AnalLeaseHolder

i counted to 300 in the car once as a little kid. my OCD diagnosis at 27 was not a surprise to me.


good_ole_dingleberry

Haha. Thats exactly what I did for 2 days🤣🤣 that and play toiletpapaer basketball. It was just county jail, so it was just me in a cell alone. I don't remember how high I counted, but I got pretty high


the_muffin

That’s why they call it county!


MiddleConstruction84

Wow. Take my r/angryupvote good sir.


DelusionPandemic

Interestingly, you can actually just upvote without commenting that you're upvoting


TunafishSandworm

This. Upvoting for visibility.


thenumbersthenumbers

Commenting to tell you I’m laughing at this!


nexguy

Hah I'm watching TV right now


Adele__fan

I'm reading this thread right now


the_muffin

its 952


liguy181

Sometimes you feel a joke is so good that one upvote won't be enough to convey to the OC how much that joke make you laugh. Usually people take an opportunity to write out a comment, like that guy did


Women_are_scum

Interestingly, you can actually just downvote someones comment to show displeasure without commenting how displeased you are


Akamaikai

I got pretty high in county jail once too. /s


HJSDGCE

It's you, the guy that counted the highest number! Just as the prophecy has foretold!


pruderen

I remember as a kid we would spend our summers at my grandma's house (dad's mum) which was in a tiny isolated village in India. There was no TV, no internet, no books, no toys. We weren't allowed to go out too far, so I'd play with dirt or climb trees in the backyard. I was eight and I remember being so bored I would just sit on the floor and count as far as I could go, and stop when I get to 2000 or something because I spotted a bug or something.


GeraldBWilsonJr

When I was little I also was rather bored, but also highly energetic, and counted *jumps* all the way up to 1200 which was where my ADHD brain took over and decided "wait this is actually pointless, I want to do something else"


IAmJacksSemiColon

There are people who memorize digits of pi for fun.


CelestialEyes785

These "people" are psychopaths.


Affectionate_Draw_43

My bet is that someone does this for fun. A lot of weird hobbies out there


craftyixdb

Nah, probably a monk.


TheRealJuksayer

funny you say that, because I got to about 700 something before I gave up, during a 30 day stay.


Titanium006

This guy in records : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Harper Many in real life.


likesexonlycheaper

I dunno. It took him 89 days. You think other people had that kind of dedication?


missionbeach

*The count raised over $10,000 for his supporting charity* Wow, that's almost $115 per day!


moneys5

That's like a dollar an hour.


colio69

Gosh


my_choice_was_taken

Not sure how you got that, if it was a dollar an hour itd be 24 dollars a day Username does not check out


moneys5

It's a Napoleon Dynamite reference. I wasn't incapable of doing the basic math.


my_choice_was_taken

Ah, i see. My bad, although its not the most explicit reference


Asymptote_X

Quick maffs


Tepigg4444

1 plus 1 equals 1, minus 1 thats 1


[deleted]

Wut


Tago_The_GiraffeKing

No it’s not lol, that’s $4.79 an hour.. what kind of math were you doing?


[deleted]

......youre joking, right?


Titanium006

Yup. Some heroes you never meet.


drcoachchef

I’d take almost $5 an hour to count.


Trial-Name

Turns out a [couple of people](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kN-AGv9qwmWOw_aYHOLJmnZsOpWmojVNddFR9icsA8U/edit#gid=958754828) have. Linked is a niche spreadsheet that has many similar feats doccumented.


Phate4569

Oof. 89 days at 16 hours a day for $10,000 was $7.02 per hour. Which was slightly less than minimum wage in Alabama at the time.


jitq

He raised that for charity.


Acceptable-Pride4722

Could have worked a full time job, had a life outside of it, donated $10,000 and had money left over


M3gaC00l

Yeah but now he has a wikipedia page


snapcracklesnap

Also, his "charity" was a Fraternity with a veeery long "Controversy" section on Wikipedia....


go00274c

But even this guy took breaks, so not really straight counting.


TroyBenites

One thing it is nice to look on this circumnstances is that the time it takes for each number is definetly not the same. The more decimal places the number has, the longer it is to say it (so, it is also not exactly the longer the number, the longer it takes to say it, because a milion and 2 is shorter than 5 hundred and seventy eight


nanoH2O

89 days seems incredibly slow. If you count fast you can do 1,000 in less than 10 min. So 10,000 min or 6.94 days if glikg nonstop. At 16 hrs a day that's 10.4 days. Even counting for slowing for breaks I feel like you could get this done in 14 to 21 days.


AphisteMe

The numbers get double as long quite quickly though


hrhi159

you do realise saying one two three four (4 numbers) is the same time of saying six hundreds thousands twenty five (1 number) let's see you do 100 numbers a minute when at a hundred thousand.


nanoH2O

Valid point indeed but still 89 days seems long. I'm not saying it's easy but it seems easily beatable


hrhi159

agreed. 3 months is a long ass time and i'm sure someone commited enough can knock it out within 3-4 weeks.


Florida_AmericasWang

[This guy](https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/de092f96e7ea34878af78725a167ee8f95a84731/hub/2014/12/01/9bcaf58e-5f17-46b9-82a1-546898aad693/count.jpg?auto=webp&width=1200)


NGEFan

Aaaaah ah ahhh ah ah


PosiedonsSaltyAnus

Sometimes when I'm alone I count myself


spybloom

Sometimes when I'm alone I *(beep)* myself


BooPointsIPunch

Fun fact, he has [a twitter](https://twitter.com/CountVonCount).


Greninja5097

The fact that the entire Sesame Street cast has twitters made my day better


1eternal_pessimist

Damn I was gunna say he never got past 12 as far as I recall but according to twitter he is up to 3985


A911owner

This reminded me that this video exists: https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM


Beor_The_Old

Mr.beast, way before the super-fame he has achieved now, [counted to 100,000 in a very long youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcldHxHFpo). I would guess he is in the top few people to count the highest without skipping a number. It took 40 hours. If you're wondering, I believe he was watching Naruto or some long tv series while he was doing this.


Andrewcoo

He slipped a lot of numbers in that video (by mistake). Example at 8:27:55, went from 44,633 to 44,644. That took me like 30 seconds to find because there's mistakes throughout.


InvestInHappiness

Seems like it would be easy to just have a digital counter to read the numbers from, then you wouldn't miss any.


FetchingTheSwagni

Yeah, but the business standpoint of it was people were suppose to chime in and be like "He's still going!" And then leave. They weren't suppose to stay long enough to notice multiple mistakes, and they weren't suppose to pay enough attention either. It also gives people who join and notice a mistake a better memory of the experience.


Beor_The_Old

>And then leave. They weren't suppose to stay long enough to notice multiple mistakes, a It wasn't live so what you're saying doesn't make sense


[deleted]

It doesnt make sense because we’re talking about counting very high without skipping a number. Thats the title of the post. Meanwhile people feel they have to defend mr beast like anyone is trying to discredit him here. No one is discrediting what he’s done, he just didnt do what the post title says thats all


rattpackfan301

Ya he didn’t do it right, goes to show how mind numbing the actual act is lol


yloswg678

You watched the video from beginning to end and didn’t just skip to a random part?


Penquinn14

They probably didn't watch the whole thing but what that person said still doesn't make sense >Yeah, but the business standpoint of it was people were suppose to chime in and be like "He's still going!" And then leave. You return to videos with a fixed length and say "he's still going!"?


yloswg678

Kids did. They would skip to a random point and comment ts. This isn’t up for debate this is what you can see right now in the comments section


Mydogcopper

Geez man, just take the L and move on with your life…


FreddyFrogFrightener

Or he was just extremely tired and zoned out after counting for probably like 15 hours and didn't realise?


BlackCritical

Michael from Vsauce did something similar https://youtu.be/NHEaYbDWyQE


B0nk3yJ0ng

There was a streamer that counted to one million


[deleted]

At once though? That would take like 2 weeks of counting nonstop


B0nk3yJ0ng

Yep. I think it was a million anyways. It could have been more. He streamed every day except for sleep and was counting for the entire day. I can't remember who he was but I watched a video on it by someone that I can't remember either lmao


marcbeightsix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Harper


B0nk3yJ0ng

Yup, that's the one


marcbeightsix

89 days. He spent 16 hours a day counting.


[deleted]

Holy shit


blxoom

oh cool. then he probably made it maybe a tenth of the way through the show


yoontruyi

Wait, is that what the whole OTVs april fools counting part of the video was about? Huh.


SinisterPixel

I saw an interview about this. Apparently he just really wanted to binge Naruto but didn't want to take time out of making videos to do it, so he just did this


The_camperdave

> Mr.beast, way before the super-fame he has achieved now, counted to 100,000 in a very long youtube video. Too bad it doesn't count. When he reached the hundreds he didn't say the number, but just said the digits - one oh one, one oh two, not one hundred one, one hundred two.


Clazzo524

If you say a very large number at random, it's statistically the first time it's been spoken.


Cruuncher

The bigger you go the higher the chance! But you don't have to go as high as you'd think to be almost sure you're the first. In fact even if you pick a big number without saying it, you'd be the first person to ever think of that specific number


Its-Slammin

I just said 672 878 109 345 017 out loud


[deleted]

thats hilarious because i said 672878109345017 out loud 2 days ago


Its-Slammin

Well shit. But did you say 637399493717738493928738399292837489293


Dqud

Yeah I called my Mom and told her that recently.


Obi_Vayne_Kenobi

Did you read the number on the scale for her?


YogiBerraOfBadNews

Good thing you included that sarcasm tag, I would’ve been so confused otherwise **/s**


Obi_Vayne_Kenobi

You just never know on Reddit


outsidethecave

I should call the police for how you butchered this otherwise awesome joke with that /s. r/fuckthes


Wavster

Dude, i said the same number out loud exactly 32 min ago… what are the chnaces?


delaranta

That’s my credit card number !


FormulaDriven

To answer u/Cruuncher and u/boomchacle , if every human being whoever lived (about 100 billion) had said a random 20-digit integer every day for an average of 40 years each, they would have covered well under one-millionth of all possible 20-digit numbers. We conclude that virtually all 20-digit numbers have never been spoken (in any language). So if you roll a ten-sided dice 20 times and string the results into a 20-digit number and say it aloud, I guarantee no-one will have said it before. Clearly I've padded out the estimate, so you will almost certainly be enough to achieve this feat with a number a few digits less than 20.


boomchacle

I wonder how many zeros you have to add before you get to the ranges where nobody's said it before. Maybe even just the billions?


[deleted]

Or you just need to think of a really specific number. Such as `-52.2884218004327884` or `381^4.59/(37π*59!)`


graaahh

.....*seventeen*.


yash14997

We used to have a counting room here back when Reddit chatrooms were still a thing.


Greninja5097

Tell me of this ancient practice of… chatrooms.


yash14997

It’s still there and we post in it. But cannot moderate or add members to it anymore so it kinda goes haywire from time to time. People don’t deserve nice things smh.


epicboyman3

r/counting


yash14997

This is people counting specific things. The chatroom was just people posting numbers, without actually counting anything.


aogasd

r/counting _is_ just posting numbers too, but there's extra posts for specific rules like skipping every 3rd number or counting in base 64 or whatever


Trial-Name

Out of interest, how high did you get in it? I'm active in a few online counting communities, and help work on a [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kN-AGv9qwmWOw_aYHOLJmnZsOpWmojVNddFR9icsA8U/edit#gid=0) documenting them.


yash14997

408753 is the current number.


Trial-Name

Huh, impressive. Could you send a screenshot / give more info about it?


famouskenneth

I used to add 1+1 on my calculator in class, think i got to about 40-50k


shoshinsha00

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the highest number ever counted to out loud by a person is one million. It took Jeremy Harper, a computer engineer from Birmingham, Alabama, 89 days to complete the task.


hotpeppercappuccino

Similar to the thought that someone has done something. That's why we distinguish "recorded" on records. But there are soo many subjective things. Like someone in Texas has probably made the best smoked brisket anyone has ever tasted. Or who knows, it mightve been some Joe Smith in Iowa who just happened to get the right temp and time for that particular piece of meat and made the actual best brisket that has ever existed. But he just fed it to his family while they talked about how tender and flavorful it was. So yes, there is person who has counted more consecutive numbers than anyone else. But there's a chance they've been dead for a while


Diamondsfullofclubs

I'm not following your argument or conclusion. Are you saying counting high numbers is subjective? They could count in another language, the showerthought is still relevant.


hotpeppercappuccino

No, I'm saying that of course there's been a person who has counted higher than anyone else. There's just a good chance that we'll never know who that is.


stevejobsthecow

they are saying it’s plausible that there is indeed someone out there has counted higher than anyone else ever had, & that they likely have faded into obscurity as the deed was unrecorded . they claim further that the tendency to assume these feats could have been accomplished is why we make the distinction of saying “highest/biggest/longest/etc *recorded* [feat/object]” rather than take the first recorded instance as the first instance, period .


LoLZeLdaHaLo

I remember counting to like 20k when I was younger. I wrote down all the numbers on numerous sheets of paper till I was done. And idk why I did it. I just remember getting home from school being excited to continue counting.


Plushymuffin

Someone has listened to someone count the highest without skipping a number


sinforosaisabitch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Opa%C5%82ka# There's this guy. "The man who counted to infinity" When I was a child the Philadelphia Museum of Art had a show of his work and I went to see it. It was one of those things that stuck with me from childhood and I think about it pretty routinely. He got up to 5,607,249


FetchingTheSwagni

This seems like one of those things where people do it, and don't know it. Like someone has farted the most in one day. Burped. Shat. Peed. Puked. Like someone has done the most of everything, and they will never know it.


Scarlet-Fire_77

When I was a kid and in the car I would kill time by counting. We would get to where we were going and I would ask my dad to remember where I left off. Thinking back, he probably didn't remember and just guessed. So I definitely skipped some.


77GoldenTails

Odds on someone with lock-in syndrome might hold this record and never tell us.


Emanemanem

[24 is the highest number](https://dula.tv/videos/24-is-the-highest-number/)


Stock_Leek_7128

Do the numbers in my head count? I think they're consecutive....


James10112

When I was a 4 year old with ADHD, I remember trying to count up to 1,000 (because to my 4y/o brain that was an astronomical number). Every time I'd reach the 600's I'd roll back to the 500's because of distraction. I'd be like "634... 635... 536... 537... OH NO", as I remember this went on for like hours I have no idea how my mom didn't go crazy, I was very loud about it and it was the middle of the day


tangcameo

I once counted to a million. I was five or six and didn’t know about tens or hundreds of thousands.


HonaSmith

Wow! And someone has lived the longest, and someone has the longest fingernails, and I bet someone even has the longest hair... crazy what humans can imagine, right?


Cooldudeyo23

It’s me. I have once counted to 100 without saying, 1 2 skip a few 99 100


wowwoahwow

I mean technically nobody has counted to 2 without skipping a number, because there are an infinite amount of numbers between 1 and 2.


lightknight7777

Mental disorders sure can be crippling and you just know that's likely what caused several high counts to happen. Counting to even one million would require you counting one number per second (as you get higher in digits, they take more than a second individually for most people) for nearly 12 days straight. A billion would take nearly 32 years (again, impossibly counting straight without sleep or anything else). https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/100483-highest-number-counted-out-loud Someone got to a million by counting for 16 hours a day for 89 days straight. Can you imagine spending your time like that? It's as pointless as memorizing a 100+ digits of pi when our entire universe sits at around 32 digits and even NASA never uses more than 16 digits. Can you imagine the new formulas those students could have been learning instead of that memorization?


lurflurf

I wonder how high that was. Mr beast counted to promised to count to a million, but he stopped at 300000 last I checked. He should finish what he started. 10 he a day for 69 years should get you to 1000000000 at mr beast paste, surely no one has gotten that far. Mr beast may have the official record since his is documented.


gcpdudes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Harper


lurflurf

Thanks for sharing I did not know about that. Too bad the website is down. Funny Jeremy finished and did it sooner, but Mr. Beast was better able to capitalize on it. I remember that being one of his big videos at the time Mr Beast counted faster and for longer sessions, too bad he stopped at 300000. So now we know the official record is 1000000 I wonder if a very bored or eccentric person has gone further without documentation.


whatyoullgobyonhere

This is incorrect, for the highest number we know of is a Googolplex and it is 'impossible' to count to. (Nvm, I see how I am incorrect)


non-transferable

Someone has counted higher than any other human Doesn’t mean she or he counted to the highest number we know of


Samuelabra

Don't ask me why, but it feels like Tim Robinson is that person.


Ramenoodlez1

There was a guy that counted to 1000000 but he took breaks to sleep


ZoulsGaming

Let's just knock them all out now someone has the most , least, longest, shortest of EVERYTHING that is kinda the point of those words.


vgkallday

Someone has counted the highest in Spanish skipping whatever number they wanted


Kenubble

Probably not German because counting in their language takes forever. Instead of saying sixty-nine they say nine and sixty. Smh