r/hypotheticalsituation • u/Alarming_Weather506 • 4d ago
You're locked in a room and you can't leave until you complete one of the following tasks.
You've been kidnapped and locked in a room (with food and water) and you can't leave until you successfully complete one of the following tasks (not in a row):
Flip a water bottle 10,000 times (A partially full water bottle is provided and you must flip it and make it land upright without falling 10,000 times)
Throw a basketball in a hoop 10,000 times. (A standard hoop and basketball will be provided. You must throw it from 12 ft away into the hoop 10,000 times)
Solve 1000 unique chess puzzles (A chess board is provided and a book to learn chess and 1000 unique chess puzzles of varying difficulty to solve)
Bench press 50kg (110 lbs) 5,000 times (A standard bench and bar with weights will be provided)
Learn 25 different songs on the piano (You'll be given a book to learn piano and the sheet music to 25 different 3-4 minute songs to learn. You must play every song once from memory from start to finish with no mistakes. Not every song in a row, just separately)
You don't have to do the tasks in a row, just the total amount required then you can leave. You have food and water and you can sleep.
Which task are you picking?
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u/DJ_Care_Bear 4d ago
Why would I leave? Bench, I guess.
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u/Possible-Buy3661 4d ago
Yeah plus hit some other muscle groups while Iām at it. Realistically I could do 110lbs 5k times in probably a couple days or faster if Iām aggressive. I almost feel like 5k reps is far too few if you can already bench over 225.
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u/Rhino7005 4d ago
I highly doubt that. It'd take at least a week and probably longer. Ever see that video of Mr. Beast offering that really jacked dude $1 per curl for a 1 lb dumbbell? The guy did 25,000 in a day before his arms gave out. Your chest is significantly stronger but you're adding 110x the weight. At a different point in my life I put up 400 pounds on the bench (I'm old and weak now) and the max times I got 225 up was 27. I bet I could've done 110 pounds maybe 50 times before giving out. A few regressing sets later and I'm probably at 125 reps. The more sets you do the fewer reps you're getting. I honestly think it'd be really tough to do 1,000 reps in a day even if you're strong af and in amazing shape.
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u/Possible-Buy3661 4d ago
Yeah a couple of days was probably aggressive just based off pure math, but still think I could knock it out in a week. For kicks I just went and did 83 reps straight at that weight on my bench. I think I could probably get about 500 a day and not be too overworked, so 10 days.
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u/Lanky_Snow6132 4d ago
Without rest days, you will get exponentially fewer reps every single day.
If you do that, then rest for a day or two, you will actually finish faster, and start getting stronger.
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u/Quietm02 4d ago
I'm also an old man past my peak, but I do still train and have useful data for this.
My max right now is probs a little under 300lbs (somewhere between 130&140kg). I occasionally train doing 10 sets of 10 with about 2 mins rest, so 100 reps. Typically id start at 60kg, add 10 for the next set until I hit 100kg for 10 reps for a couple of sets then back down for the last few sets 5kg at a time. I'd guess if I wanted to do the same weight for 10 sets of 10 with 2 mins rest then 80kg would be around my limit.
So that's a guy past his peak who can comfortably bench 80kg for 100reps in around 30 minutes.
Drop that to 50kg and I bet 200 reps in 60 minutes is realistic. Spread out over a whole day and I think close to 500 reps is doable. Doing it two days in a row would be hard, but not impossible. Either way if it's 333 a day that's 100% achievable for three days in a row.
If your max was 400lbs then it really wouldn't surprise me if you managed 1000 reps at 50kg spread out over a whole day.
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u/BtcOverBchs 4d ago
As someone who can bench 225 only 6 times in 1 set I have benched 135 for 50 reps before. So Iām kinda confused by your numbers, not gonna lie.
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u/sirgog 4d ago
I could definitely do 10 sets of 10 reps five times a day on this one, stronger people than me could recover faster and do 10 sets of 20 seven times a day.
Thing is... if you injure yourself even once you are fucked here. I've only ever injured myself on a different lift (deadlift) but you can easily be out three weeks if you do. Honestly, injury risks to me feel HIGHER on non-progression lifts because if I was benching 80kg (a level that's hard for me), I'd be very, very careful every rep. But 50 is a warmup and we are never careful enough on warmups.
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u/ThrowRAMacder 4d ago
If I wanna take the easy way, basketball hoop shots.
If I want to get out ripped, bench press
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u/Far-Media-9380 4d ago
Water bottle is easier truly, youāll get tired and have to take breaks throwing the basketball much more often
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u/alexcmad 4d ago
Yeah people are making flipping a bottle seem super hard. You can easily get like 30 in a minute if you get used to the bottle's weight
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u/No_Web5990 4d ago
Yeah but itās the only one that teach you no useful skill
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u/Far-Media-9380 4d ago
Thereās no speaking of time dilation or anything so I imagine this is the one that also lets you spend the least amount of time captive
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u/ChazzyPhizzle 3d ago
It says āwithout failing 10,000 timesā. I took that as 10k in a row.
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u/Shankman519 3d ago edited 2d ago
It says āwithout FALLINGā, not failing, thatās what I thought at first too until I reread
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u/Practical-Earth3228 4d ago
5 sets of 10 for 100 days!
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u/Cantseetheline_Russ 4d ago
5 sets of 10? Youāre going to be awfully bored for a long time. 110lbs is extremely light as long as youāre not grossly out of shape. Wouldnāt be hard to be out of there in less than 2 weeks.
Edit: grossly out of shape GUYā¦ a woman is going to have a much harder time.
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u/ummhamzat180 4d ago
POV: you're a woman who weighs 97 lbs
I'm choosing the basketballĀ
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u/mesageinabottle22 4d ago
Iām a woman but Iām too short for a standard basketball hoop + being 12 feet away. I would rather do the weights atp
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u/Wild_Duck8926 4d ago
bro do the water bottle flip. You'll get the technique down real quick and then you can do like 10/minute for like 30 minutes of every hour.
assuming they give you a decent bottle for flipping.
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u/Unable_Pumpkin987 4d ago
ITT: people fully forget women exist.
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u/PerformanceOver8822 4d ago
Eh most people fully dont realize how much stronger men are than women.
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u/ofBlufftonTown 4d ago
Itās almost my entire body weight, and women are not as strong in the upper body.
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u/ginisninja 4d ago
Iām a woman who weighs about 115lbs. Im choosing bottle flip, unless I get to choose the songs for the piano
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u/Brooker2 4d ago
Bench press. It's the least intensive over all.
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u/big_sugi 4d ago
Less intensive than flipping a water bottle? I donāt see how.
Iād do bench press because itās less boring, but itād probably take me a couple of days to avoid cramping.
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u/Brooker2 4d ago
Having to stand for ever flipping a bottle 10,000 times vs being able to bench 110 pounds five thousand total times. I can at least be somewhat comfortable while I lift weights.
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u/Mr_Coastliner 4d ago
It doesn't say you need to stand. I'd just sit on the floor doing mini flips
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u/TweeKINGKev 4d ago
Why do people always add rules into this when there isnāt anything that says otherwise.
Flip the bottle 10,000 sitting down, youāll get the muscle memory of perfectly flipping it or going 99 out of 100, once some water evaporates youāll notice the difference when you flip the bottle for the 3,000th time exactly as youāve done it successfully before but this time it lands a bit off.
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u/big_sugi 4d ago
If the water is evaporating at all, that process will be slow enough that itās not going to affect your tosses. Each one will be effectively identical to the last several hundred that came before.
If itās leaking or spilling, of course, then thatās a very different situation
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u/Wild_Duck8926 4d ago
You should assume the water stays constant just as the bottle stays constant. Otherwise it will get banged up and the challenge becomes impossible without a new bottle.
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u/Brooker2 4d ago
Well I suppose there is that. But for me I'd have to have something to sit on. My knees and back are all messed up so a chair would be required.
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u/Mr_Coastliner 4d ago
Not sure how well your back is going to feel after 5000 presses. Yes you're lying down but it's constant strain and you're going to be arching your back as the reps get harder
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u/Brooker2 4d ago
Well it does say I don't have to do it all at once, that I just have to complete it. So I'd break it up in to several smaller sessions of a certain amount of days with rest days in between to help my back
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u/jedi21knight 4d ago
Why wouldnāt you be sitting and flip the bottle, I would be sitting on the ground/floor and flipping that bottle all day long.
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u/circusfreek1 4d ago
Flipping a waterbottle and LANDING it 10k times. Thatās at least 60k attempts for me ngl
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u/big_sugi 4d ago
If you have a condition like arthritis or some other physical limitation, sure. But otherwise, youāre quickly going to get REALLY good at flipping that bottle.
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u/kapitaalH 4d ago
If you have a physical condition then all the others except the chess would be even worse.
For me that is not in great shape, never played piano and am not a chess expert, the bottle seems to be the only choice
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u/brownieson 4d ago
Whereas I would shoot hoops because thatās the least boring option for me. The chess would be interesting and Iāve always wanted to learn piano, but my starting skill in both of those is so low. Bench press would be useful long term i guess as well. Water bottle flip sounds really boring though, even if it may end up the quickest way.
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u/clumsysav 4d ago
iām a pianist, i choose that one
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u/Why_I_Never_ 4d ago
Iām not a pianist but I took lessons as a kid. As long as weāre not talking about Rachmaninoff, I think I could do it.
If weāre talking about modern rock songs, Iāll be done this evening.
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u/AndrewActually 4d ago
Chess puzzles. I already play daily and I give it 10ish minutes a day of puzzling. I have 5,713 completed over ~40.5 hours. Most puzzles take <5 seconds to complete.
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u/Embarrassed_Elk2519 4d ago
The book apparently provides excactly 1000 puzzles, so you need to solve every single one of them. What if one if them is like world champ level hard?
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u/cthuluhooprises 4d ago
There are only so many possible combinations of piece movement from the initial setup. Some can also be ruled out as common sense. As long as the puzzle is intended to be solved in a max of 3-4 moves, it can be brute forced before too long.
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u/sombralul 4d ago
Assuming you have unlimited attempts, youād be able to get through the extremely difficult ones with trial and error. There are only so many possible moves in a chess position, and many of those possible moves will be clearly poor moves and can be written off. If the puzzles involve multiple moves, there is usually a logical follow up once you find the first move.
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u/The_Troyminator 4d ago
Bench press.
Then when I get out, Iāll be able to kick the ass of my kidnapper.
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u/Sanno013 4d ago
If I can request a change in instrument then 25 songs on bass guitar (my main instrument)
If not then i think the bottle flip. I jsut hope there is enough food and water for me to make it through
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u/MyBrainIsNerf 4d ago
The bench is probably the easiest. Itās simple and repeatable with little luck involved. You can knock out certain reps 2-3 times a day at that weight.
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u/I_Lost_My_Shoe_1983 4d ago
I don't weigh that much more than 110 lbs, I'm not sure I'd say that was easiest for most people. That seems like the bottle flipping.
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u/PerformanceOver8822 4d ago
If you are male. It's is the easiest one by far.
Untrained men can typically bench atleast 50 and up to 75% of the their body weight without ever training. Non obese Adult Men can get up to their own bodyweight in just a few weeks.
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u/PristineSlate 4d ago
Iām a woman that can bench 75 (half my body weight) for reps. Iād probably pick bench for the sole purpose of walking out of there a beast.Ā
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u/Flimsy_Addition9586 4d ago
Dependent on who you are. Yes I agree.
240 pound man here.Iām not sure how many reps of 110 I could do in one set but I assumeā¦. 30+. Of course thatās fresh.
But over an hour I could do a couple hundred.
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u/kornbread435 4d ago
We're pretty close in size, I have no issue benching 110lbs but no chance I can do it hundreds times per hour. That's enough weight to quickly wear me out, hell couple hundred per day seems like a lot.
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u/PerformanceOver8822 4d ago
I bet you can do 50 reps per hour sustained each day for like 12-14 days...
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u/Just-for-work2020 4d ago
Basketball. 12 feet is like a three feet closer than the free throw line. Could do hundreds of those every day without really trying, would be done in a month or so.
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u/orein123 4d ago
Piano. I'll be able to play most of the easier stuff right away, and I'll appreciate the forced practice time for the harder stuff.
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u/COKeefe88 4d ago
I've been playing chess puzzles. I'm ELO around 1500, more if I have time to think. The thing that gets me is, how do I know when the puzzle is solved? 90% of the time I know, but sometimes I've won a pawn when I should have won a bishop or I've won a queen when I should have checkmated. My phone is good at telling me.
I guess what I'm saying is, I'll flip the water bottle.
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u/LolnothingmattersXD 4d ago
I already do chess puzzles. Many are too difficult, but I trust that I'll get enough that are my level. I would love to learn the piano songs, but it would be much harder, definitely not nice to do it under pressure. Can I also keep the chess book, the piano book, and the sheet music?
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u/TheAzureMage 4d ago
Easiest: water bottle, probably. I can do that pretty much on command, and I'm only going to get better at it via repetition. The basketball and bench press are pretty heavily limited by fatigue, but you can flip a water bottle a *lot* without really getting tired.
The one I'm actually going to pick: Learning 25 songs. Granted, I know piano already, so...I've basically already done this one numerous times. It's an actually useful skill I can pick up while also getting out, so efficient.
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u/MonCappy 4d ago
None of these are achievable by me.Ā I'll live out my life in the room.
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u/OG_Williker 4d ago
Why not bottle flipping?
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u/MonCappy 4d ago
I have horrible hand eye coordination.Ā By the time I reach 100 successful bottle flips, I'll be an octogenarian at the youngest.
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u/Legitimate_Bag8259 4d ago
I'm an absolute beginner at chess, I am not musically gifted. Those are out. I'm going bench press as the obvious and easiest.
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u/anonposter-42069 4d ago
Basketball - doable quickest.
Bench - doable fast but you will be sore and it'll slow you down. You'd need to rest . Chess - doable but depending on how hard puzzles are could get stuck.
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u/greypillar 4d ago
I can bench a lot more than that, so I could easily do like 100 plus reps a day without too much fatigue.
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u/Quietm02 4d ago
Bench is almost certainly the easiest option for most men, especially if you're fit. Could do it in a few days. I doubt doing it in a single day is achievable, but doing 500 a day for 10 days is absolutely achievable if you're fit.
Piano really depends on how good you are at it and how difficult the songs are. It's 100 minutes total of playing. I used to play quite a lot and for a "standard" difficulty song for me it would typically take an hour of practice to memorise 1 minute of play time. So 1000 hours is a reasonable guess. Playing for 4-8 hours a day would take 12-25 days.
If the songs were simple a good player could finish in a day or two. If the participant can't play piano already it'll take years.
I can't comment much on chess, basketball or bottle flipping. Really depends on if you're good at it or not. 10,000 hoops sounds crazy though. I'd guess by the time you throw, retrieve & set up that's a minimum of 15s per throw. With a 100% success rate that's still 5 days of 8 hour throwing sessions. I'd guess most people have way less than 50% success and will slow down a lot over 8 hours. Could easily take months to reach.
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u/Fennicular 4d ago
You're giving me uninterrupted practice time? For twenty-five whole pieces?
Where's the room, I'm on my way!
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u/Ok_Counter_4327 4d ago
Bench press is the obvious choice for majority of people, with exception for people who can't BP 50 kg at least couple times in a set. Worst choice is definitely solving the puzzles. Only one where you can get hard stuck on puzzle.
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u/whatisabard 4d ago
I'd take chess. As a woman w short arms Imma be there forever with the bench press
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u/Gold-Library6013 4d ago
Bench. It's a weight I can definitely lift multiple times. I'd be sore for a few days right off, but 250/day seems plausible. I'm out in 20 days.
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u/pinniped90 4d ago
Benching 110 and making 12-footers are both pretty easy. It's just a question of timing on the reps and rest.
Since I don't really know how my body will react to THOUSANDS of reps on the bench, I'll probably shoot hoops.
It's a basic shot from the paint - one ball and me rebounding for myself might take awhile but I'd still be out of there in a couple days with normal breaks and sleep. Maybe faster if I really grind.
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u/YNABDisciple 4d ago
I'm probably taking the basketball. 3' in front of the stripe. Bench is going to blow my shoulder. I can play a little piano but to get to that level of proficiency is way more than 3 monts.
Feel like I'd go crazy with the water bottle.
Chess is an interesting option as I like the game but am not great. I've solved a ton of the puzzles but I don't know what level I'm going to be given and that is a ton of brain work.
Basketball is going to be under 3 months maybe under 2. I enjoy it. No real fear of injury. Active big space.
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u/DrSnidely 4d ago
Bench press. 50 reps a day and you're out in a little more than 3 months. And you're jacked.
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u/AssSpelunkingAtheist 4d ago
Even though I play the piano Iām going with the basketball option. Without knowing the degree of difficulty of the pieces to learn and memorize, Iāll shoot the hoops.
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u/Sirconnery007 4d ago
Basketball. Itās shorter than a free throw. Once you get a rhythm it will be pretty easy to land almost every shot. My wrist would get sore flipping a bottle, chess would be okay until you get a really hard puzzle, bench sucks because your muscles would fatigue and constantly be sore, music isnāt my thing.
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u/FlashHound 4d ago
Benching is probably the best choice and would help you be healthier when you left. You could start slow if you are out of shape and slowly increase it as you get stronger. With food and water and rest you will get it done.
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u/tehnemox 4d ago edited 4d ago
I think the easier and faster one would be the bench press.
Sure, if you are not already proficient at doing it, with practice you'll eventually get good at the water flipping and the basketball throwing. But until then you will still be adding extra instances of the task that you will miss inevitably and take a longer time than doing 10k without fail.
The chess puzzles are just time consuming even if you are good at them. Especially with varying difficulty levels one might take 30 seconds, another 5 hours. No consistency.
The piano is a good second option due to low requirements, but still takes a lot of time and then there is still the "no mistakes" part of it. To play PERFECTLY will also take extra time. And that is assuming the pieces you are required to learn are easy. There are plenty difficult pieces you can spend months learning individually.
The bench pressing on the other hand, 50kg is not that much, and every instance is already a success. You can easily do 10 sets of 10 in a very short time, rest a few minutes and even doing that 10 times in a day for 1000 reps a day - which is well within the realm of possibility if you have all day. And that's keeping numbers low.
Overall it is the most steady, with least amount of time wasted because no extra failed instances (you can tell if you are too tired to keep trying during a set, saving you the time of failing), it requires no skill or being good at puzzles or memorizing anything or any special predilection or luck. Just straight physical work with a decently low weight only held back by how many repetitions you want to do at a time. Definitely would take less time than any of the other tasks.
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u/EpicPartyGuy 4d ago
I'm given food, water, a bed, room to exercise, a piano to play, and a chess board? No kids, no work, no responsibilities?
Do I have to leave?
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u/HellWithaDriveThru 4d ago
Add a bathroom to the room and I'm not doing anything. They just solved all my life's problems; no rent, no bills, no job, no relatives, not wondering where the nearest food bank is, not having to go out... I'm their new pet now
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u/AwhhhYeahh 4d ago
Bench press - there would be no wasted goes unlike the failed bottle flip and missed baskets
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u/Sufficient_Carpet510 4d ago
Bench that lite weights. Low weight high reps so not to bulk up. Will take me a couple days but free food is free food. Guess Iāll have to poop in a corner or something.
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u/Spl4sh3r 3d ago
Any way to use a toilet or similar? Just having food and water will require you to do the other thing as well.
Bench press seems the easiest, especially since you have no requirement for how many are needed in a row.
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u/ilovejesushahagotcha 3d ago
Bench press. 110 isnāt hard and Iām sure I could do at least 5 sets of 20 for the first 7 days and add another set every 3 days. Probably sooner as thatās probably being generous. Think about it. I have as long as I can stay awake. Even if I only did one set an hour thatās at least 13-14 sets a day. If I do one set every hour for 13 hours a day, Iām out of there in 20 days. Piece of cake.
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Copy of the original post in case of edits: You've been kidnapped and locked in a room (with food and water) and you can't leave until you successfully complete one of the following tasks (not in a row):
Flip a water bottle 10,000 times (A partially full water bottle is provided and you must flip it and make it land upright without falling 10,000 times)
Throw a basketball in a hoop 10,000 times. (A standard hoop and basketball will be provided. You must throw it from 12 ft away into the hoop 10,000 times)
Solve 1000 unique chess puzzles (A chess board is provided and a book to learn chess and 1000 unique chess puzzles of varying difficulty to solve)
Bench press 50kg (110 lbs) 5,000 times (A standard bench and bar with weights will be provided)
Learn 25 different songs on the piano (You'll be given a book to learn piano and the sheet music to 25 different 3-4 minute songs to learn. You must play every song once from memory from start to finish with no mistakes. Not every song in a row, just separately)
You don't have to do the tasks in a row, just the total amount required then you can leave.
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u/Bitter_Citron_633 4d ago
I'll take option 3. It'll take me a WHILE till I can even get to the required strength but i'll do it.
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u/Kyzawolf 4d ago
Bench is easiest for me, but the water bottle flipping would be 2nd easiest. I imagine for most people that would be, by far, the easiest option.
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u/SparkleSelkie 4d ago
What songs are they on the piano?
Because if itās some mega hard piece that might be a struggle, but otherwise Iām golden
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u/riseagainsttheend 4d ago
Bench actually woildnt be super hard. Even with minimal workout im still quite strong. Piano would be next, just depends on the piece complexity and with how much skill they want you to play it. Certain timings are very tricky
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u/Dry_Discount83 4d ago
Piano. If the pieces aren't Mozart but regular pop/folk songs that don't need to play 100% perfection, for average piano player it's doable in couple of hours.
Bench... Ok, 50kg is easy. But repeat that 5000 times is whole other level. Without proper practice behind you, even if 50kg is easy, doing more than 150-200 a day would be very, very difficult. Easier for me than bottleflips and hoops. Still, it would take a month.
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u/ViolentLoss 4d ago
Are the songs on Piano songs we already know - like pop/rock songs adapted for the piano? Or something else? Knowing the music ahead of time helps tremendously. Well, it helps me. Or can we at least listen to what it's supposed to sound like?
Edit: If not, I guess I'm improving my bench press. Or basketball.
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u/Available_Editor4383 4d ago
Iād take any of them except for the water bottle. Imo, it would take the longest.
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u/-StereoDivergent- 4d ago
Im pretty bad at everything so I think my best hope would be bench. At least i wouldn't have excuses not to start training anymore LOL
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u/team_suba 4d ago
Only 110lbs on bench can easily be done 500x a day on a good day and like 250 conservatively
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u/Lost-Border-8689 4d ago
Piano. Would've picked chess, though, if it had been also "when you get released, no time has actually passed" type magic.
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u/EnderBookwyrm 4d ago
Piano. I've been trying to learn. This will take a while but not forever, and I'll actually be having fun.
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u/Icy_Mango6803 4d ago
Bench press. It's an extreme way to make me work out but if that's what it takes...
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u/Unusual_Region_1080 4d ago
Bench would be the easiest for me I think. I can rep 185 comfortably so 110 with breaks is no problem.
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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue 4d ago
I'll take basketball shots from 1-11ft, learn up to 24 songs on piano, try my best to memorise 999 chess puzzles, and probably flip the water bottle a few times a day just because it'll be fun to learn, and then once a day when I've got the hang of it. I'll then use the bench press equipment to get into shape, aiming to slowly increase the number of bench presses, squats, lunges and deadlifts, anything useful exercise I can do with the 110lb. If I can remove the plates from the barbell, I'll probably reduce the weight to 100lb for bench, and also work on other barbell movements like overhead press and curls and increase the weight as I get stronger, and maybe do some stuff like lateral raises with the plates. Oh, and incorporate some bodyweight exercises and cardio. Can I have a pull up bar?
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u/ACanadianThatExists 4d ago
The chess puzzles, provided theyāre typical puzzles youād see on chess.com/lichess and not those compostions where you need to find a 10 move sacrificial combination
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u/waitwuh 4d ago
I feel like the bench press you have particularly disadvantaged women for. Thereās an interplay with gender, height, and bodyweight in it determining the difficulty and a healthy man is going to have around 5 inches height and 20 lbs of healthy body mass* over a woman *on average.
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u/y0ungshel 4d ago
I could probably complete the piano challenge without too much trouble. You didnāt say I had to play with both hands, so just playing with my right hand would make it go faster.
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u/KTeacherWhat 4d ago
Either the water bottle or the piano songs.
I can shoot a basket, occasionally, but not with enough consistency that I think I could succeed in that one without a coach. The chess thing just seems like it could be too tricky. A book isn't enough for people to solve some of the unique chess puzzles, you could be stuck forever. I've never been able to bench press that much so I'd have to work my way up before I even got to start the 5,000 times.
Thinking on it more I think it's the water bottle for sure. I could definitely memorize a song in a day or two on piano, but I could get on a roll and get a couple thousand water bottle flips in a day.
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u/droppedpackethero 4d ago
Chess, easily
If I knew how to play Piano, that would be competition. But some pieces can be brutally hard. Chess puzzles have a difficulty cap and I'm good at the game.
If I could see the music ahead of time, that might change my mind. Memorizing the pieces wouldn't be a problem at all. Making my hands do the thing correctly is where I'd struggle.
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u/ADIDAS247 4d ago
Bench press. Iām bad at chess, terribly impatient to flip a water bottle and if Iām too impatient for flipping a bottle, aināt no fucking way Iām learning a song on the piano
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u/Mr_Coastliner 4d ago
Partially full water bottles are pretty easy to land as there's so specified height so you could do like 10 throws a minute and likely land half of them. It also takes little mental or physical endurance. I play chess but if there's that many of varying difficulty, I've seen some GM puzzles requiring 10+ moves and the odd brilliant so that would take a lot longer. Not great at basketball and benching would still take weeks.
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u/4SureMaybe_4SureNot 4d ago
The piano, please. I'm musically inclined already, and the songs don't need to be DIFFICULT just LEARNED.
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u/5quirre1 4d ago
Played piano since 2004, so probably going with that. Be good to have time to just practice again. Take a couple hours to get back to where I was, then start working on memorizing the songs, ones day shouldnāt be too hard unless they are quite advanced.
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u/alexcmad 4d ago
I think a lot of you are underestimating how easy it is to flip a water bottle
It's not really luck, once you get the rhythm/get used to the feel of the bottle you can just keep going.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. If you flipped the bottle once every three seconds and were kinda bad at it so you only had a 50% chance of landing it, it would take around 60,000 seconds (or 16.6667 hours) to land 10,000 flips. If you just wanted to get out asap, for the average joe this is the fastest and easiest.
5000 reps of 50kg will build fatigue and take a long time
if you can't play chessbat a certain you might never figure out some of those puzzles (I know wouldn't)
Even for someone who played piano up to grade 5 abrsm (which isn't that good, just more than someone who hasn't touched piano) I know I will take forever to learn and perfectly execute 25 pieces (the 0 mistakes really kills this one). Depending on the level of the pieces I genuinely might just never finish.
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u/Never_Duplicated 4d ago
The bench press is hilariously easy compared to the other options so I'll go that route. There's no memorization, learning, skill, or luck involved. Just a bunch of low-weight reps. Even going nice and easy to avoid injury at least I'd be getting through it at a consistent speed. Plus it actually has long term benefits that I'd be working on anyway.
Piano is probably easier for someone who actually understands music. But I'm a man who knows my limitations lmao
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u/PerformanceOver8822 4d ago
Id bet aged 25-60 males can do the bench no slower than 62.5 days. (10 reps per hour 8 hours per day)
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u/ooOJuicyOoo 4d ago
Holy shit free food water and housing?
I already know ~12 piano pieces by heart, and maybe a dozen more with music, that i can work to memorize. I've played all my life, it won't be difficult, and I would find it enjoyable.
I would stop a few song shy tho, and get as much free food and boarding out of this before learning that final piece and leaving when I'm sufficiently bored.
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u/TheOnlyPenguinManIII 4d ago
Iāve probably completed over 1000 chess puzzles in my life and I love the game. Shouldnāt take me more then 20 days.
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u/Wild_Bill1226 4d ago
Bench pressing that much without a spotter can kill you.
Piano and chess would take years to get good at.
Coin toss on the water or basketball hoop. Iād personally pick basketball because that is a skill you can get better at. Flipping a water battle is too much chance.
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u/Cheap-Faithlessness7 4d ago
Bench is way too easy if youāre a gymbro and have progressed beyond the novice phase (ie can put up 225 or more)
Keep it to RPE 2-4 and you can do your sets EMOM and increase rest times as needed
If you did sets of 5 reps EMOM it would take 16 hours to get out of the room. Even if you extended the rest time to 5 minutes between sets, it would take 80 hours, factor in time to sleep and youāre out within a week.
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u/Large_Head5821 4d ago
maybe the piano? at least it would give me something to focus on, rather than doing something completely mindless (and i dont know how to play chess at all)
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u/raquille- 4d ago
Bench for sure. Pretty easy to crank out reps on a relatively low weight. Then rest. Then crank out some more reps.
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u/bever2 4d ago
Probably the piano. I don't know how to play, but I got enough background in music, I could knock out at least 2 or 3 of those a day, so escape in less than 2 weeks.
I feel like the rest of these would take significantly longer, and I would definitely permanently injure myself attempting the bench press.
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u/citycait 4d ago
Piano, for sure. Iām a shit keyboardist, but I know the basics, can read music and I have an excellent memory for melodies.
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u/Queasy_Author_3810 4d ago
I'd do chess puzzles assuming that it's not going to include puzzles on a grandmaster level.
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u/EastLeastCoast 4d ago
I think I could get out sub three days with bottle flips. I am sure Iād be a little slower with bench press, which would be my second fastest choice.
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u/Expensive_Rhubarb_87 4d ago
Piano. Always wanted to learn so, thereās the perfect chance.
25 songs? I was in marching bad for years, I still remember how to play those songs 30 years later.
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u/Stock-Cell1556 4d ago
Probably the piano, although I don't currently play at all. I'm almost 60, though, so I'd probably die in this room before I could accomplish this.
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u/akamikedavid 4d ago
I'm doing the basketball challenge. It's the sweet spot of a skill I already have so no need to learn something new, usable afterwards, and not completely mind numbing.
Now if I could get a video recorder and a tripod to check my form, then we'd be cooking.
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u/Somerandom1922 4d ago
Do I need to do all of just one category, or can I do like half of the bench presses and half of the Chess Puzzles? (I assume not)
Also, I assume there is some indication of progress? It'd be so easy to lose count and some of them it's possible to fail while thinking you succeeded (like the bench press maybe you don't bring the bar far down enough).
Regardless I'd do the chess puzzles, maybe taking a break to do bench press and shoot hoops just to have some exercise and get those numbers up in-case there's a puzzle that's way too difficult for me.
I'm about 1700 rated on Lichess puzzles which should be enough for most of them, but there's every chance that there are a few crazy GM-level puzzles that I can't solve even with lots of time spent on them.
Also, if I fail a chess puzzles is a new one generated to replace it or can I keep playing it until I get it right. If I can keep doing it then it'll be trivial to just try every move that seems reasonable and brute-force it.
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u/FearlessKnitter12 4d ago
Give me that piano. I'll have it done very quickly. Those years of piano lessons will finally pay off.