Mindless Tap Application Seeds Innovation In Youth

Last month, we wrote an article called … “Man Taps iPhone 844,683 Times Proving Life Is Overrated” … featuring the Million Tap Challenge app. Unlike most iPhone games (or any game for that matter) where some thought, skill or luck come into play … Million Tap Challenge is the ultimate slacker pastime. The goal is to tap your iPhone one million times.

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We continued the story by analyzing the game’s leaderboard (yes, there’s a global leaderboard which ranks losers players worldwide) and concluded that the loser individual in first place with 844,683 taps spent 4 days … nonstop 24/7 … tapping their iPhone.  Conclusion = idiot – get a life!

But hold on … are we really being fair? Does Million Tap Challenge provide some educational value? Perhaps some life lesson? Does playing it really make you a dumbass? Huh? – are you for real – you tap a screen one million times … there’s no value, no lesson … just mindless garbage that indeed makes you a moron.

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But we will admit this … the Million Tap Challenge can lead to innovation. Why’s that? Well check out this true story from a KRAPPS viewer (yes, this is true … we received an email with pictures and video … LMAO).

Some 15-year-old dude downloaded Million Tap Challenge with one goal in mind … to cheat! He wanted to register one million taps … without ever touching his iPhone. He got a sausage – attached it to an electric drill – taped the drill so it was locked in the “On” position – mounted and taped down the iPhone … thus giving birth to an electric tapping machine with a sausage interface.

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But just as the Wright Brothers failed numerous times before their first flight, alas the electric drill method sucked. The torque of the drill kept thrashing the sausage and the battery life of the cordless drill was on par with the iPhone – it blows. But a second attempt  proved successful … a motorized golf caddy with the same sausage interface.

 

What a wonderful story about a revolutionary idea … sausages and humanity finding common ground. Big thanks to Million Tap Challenge for seeding innovation in our youth.

November 28, 2009 | Filed Under Games, News 

Comments

  • Haha wow. Are the devs even offering a prize for the person that manages to reach 1 Million taps? Probably not…these people need to get a life and download some better apps! xP

  • LMAO. Just say “no” to mindless apps.

    Nah … no prize … that is a good idea though … like a bonehead trophy
    or a boob or something.

  • Haha wow. Are the devs even offering a prize for the person that manages to reach 1 Million taps? Probably not…these people need to get a life and download some better apps! xP

  • LMAO. Just say “no” to mindless apps.

    Nah … no prize … that is a good idea though … like a bonehead trophy
    or a boob or something.