The internet. A magical land full of wonder and joy, weirdos and freaks, cute kittens and porn. And in the town of YouTube, there lives some of the oddest people known to man – people whose talents they boast about are pointless. Oustandingly pointless. And though they impress us for a few minutes, and we wonder how they did it and how we might do it ourselves, half an hour later we've forgotten all about it.
So in honour of those YouTube wizards who entertain us for no real benefit for just over a minute, here's our compilation of the most impressive, but most pointless, YouTube tricks and skills after the jump.
Parking Skills
We love all of these, apart from the one with the woman using 'the force' to push her car into the right place. Seriously, that's cheating. Jedis on YouTube make this whole exercise just look silly.
Impossible stop motion guitar skills
You don't have to know how to play guitar... you just need to be amazingly good at editing. Play lots of notes, string them together on your computer... and you've got yourself some YouTube gold (For a drumming version, click here).
Rubix Cube
Do Rubix Cubes really impress anybody? Coloured bricks, all in the right order? And you were the one who messed up the order in the first place, so you've only got yourself to blame, frankly.
Pen Spinning
The bane of any teacher's life (bar potential violence, screaming, shouting, and people bunking off) are kids fiddling, fiddling, fiddling (no, not that way). The king of the mid-class distraction, the pen twiddle has now become YouTube legend... as seen by this:
Card throwing
Throwing cards, Gambit-from-X-Men-style, is fun, impressive and utterly pointless, and normally done at melons (or the like) as the cards neatly stick in them (see here). But you can whack an ace of spades through as many melons as you like, you're still flinging slices of tree at a big fruit. Instead, here's a man lobbing a card down a sports hall. No, it doesn't get more pointless than that.
Cup Stacking
OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH – this girl is very good at stacking upside down cups. Useful for when all the used cups at your party are upside down... and you want to put them in a tower.
Coin tricks
There are a huge number of coin tricks out there in the wild, wild internet but we thought it best to show you some serious freaky-deaky magician stuff here as one last hurrah. Seriously, there are coin tricks... then there's this kind of stuff.
