Spacebar challenge is a new challenge on TikTok that’s generating lots of videos on the platform. After all, we are all bored in quarantine nd we need new challenges and games to hold our attention during these uncertain times. The game has gone very popular and let’s talk all about it today.
The premise is so simple that it sounds like a game conceived in the medieval era only with a device that’s modern. All you need is a computer or a keyboard to play this game. The basic idea is that press your spacebar and that’s all. The person who presses the most spacebar in a minute wins.
What Is A Spacebar Challenge On TikTok?
It’s an internet quiz basically but there are no questions and it doesn’t test your intelligence or IQ but the speed of your hands. The idea is that you press spacebar and keep on pressing it as fast as you can and when you think there might be something else to this challenge, there’s none, you just keep on pressing the spacebar.
Most people are doing this challenge for 30 seconds because that’s just the perfect time. If you are just pressing the spacebar again and again for a long time, it might get boring.
As you saw in this video, it’s all about pressing the spacebar as fast as you can. Friends compete with each other on the basis of the number of times they pressed on the keyboard and that’s basically it.
Why Is It So Viral?
With a premise as simple as just pressing a spacebar key, how is this game so famous. Well, first of all, some people with huge followers tried this challenge and their fans started doing it as well. They all wanted to one-up their favourite TikTokers and slowly this trend started being big.
Soon enough, people found a way to make this challenge more fun and outrageous with some of the users even using multiple keyboards and different variations.
If you are a competitive person locked up in your house and have nothing to do, you are going to try it. So, it isn’t a surprise to me when I learnt that a game as simple as this is getting really famous now.
Some Tips and Guide To Compete In Spacebar Challenge
This shouldn’t even be a heading and there should be no writings on how to do this challenge. It’s not rocket science. Hell, it’s not even a science. you just are required to press a button and that’s all. But there are some things you could look into to press the button more times than your friends and TikTokers and here it goes:
- First of all head to a site which has this game available. Sporcle.com has a quiz on their site which gives a 30-second timer, CodePen and MentalFlss also have this available on their site.
- Make sure your Keyboard is working perfectly and the spacebar button presses smoothly.
- While playing the game, press it light enough that the keyboard doesn’t break but hard enough to keep up the face. These things are more intuitive and can be accomplished when you start doing them anyway.
When you do this challenge on one of these sites, take a video from your phone and upload that on TikTok or Instagram or anywhere. This is the basic gist of this challenge. Just press the spacebar button again and again. That’s all. Go ahead and try it for yourself.