Think you could throw a basketball off a 540ft dam, into a hoop \u2013 while blindfolded? Meet the talented and ludicrously patient people putting hours into the internet\u2019s most joyful (and pointless) clips<\/p>\n
For much of the month of June 2023, David and Daniel Hulett sat in their parents\u2019 basement in Virginia throwing five-cent coins in the air. First David would flip his nickel. Then Daniel would flip his nickel. They were trying to get the coins to land on their edge, an occurrence they knew was vanishingly improbable, but not impossible. This was their work.<\/p>\n
After three or four days, doubts began to set in. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve been doing it for so long, you\u2019re like: the next one has <\/em>to be it!\u201d says Daniel, 26, the elder and generally chirpier of the two. \u201cYou get really optimistic. And then it doesn\u2019t happen and you feel like the world is ending. It\u2019s almost physically painful. You get messed up.\u201d<\/p>\n