We got our hands dirty for this one. Or was it, “we got them clean”? Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon and I decided to tackle yet another COVID lockdown record and this time did it with an ingredient we cannot get enough of these days: wet soap.

We had to stack bars of soap that had been soaked in water for at least 1 minute before the attempt began. We had to stack them 1 at a time alternating between us. I let my fingernails grow out so I could get a good grip on them and so did Jonathan, but he decided to grab them without the nails anyway.

The first time we tried it the stack fell down. It has to remain standing for 5 seconds after the minute is up. The biggest challenge is actually getting the bars to stay on top of each other. They’re so slick that as you add more bars on top, any variance on the bottom is amplified and it trieds to squeeze the ones below out. We also didn’t have the stack straight. On the second try we reserved the last 5 seconds to just stabilizing the stack. It wasn’t quite straight, but it was sturdy enough to survive the required 5 seconds, and a bit longer.

We managed 47 bars in 1 minute surpassing the previous mark of 40 set by another team of 2.