Published 16:42 IST, November 30th 2019

Tiktok's chair challenge can be completed only by women, video gets over million views

An interesting new TikTok challenge which is known as the 'chair challenge' has left many people shocked by how much better women appear to be at standing up.

Reported by: Sounak Mitra
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An interesting new TikTok challenge kwn as 'chair challenge' has left many people shocked by how much better women appear to be at standing up while simultaneously picking up a chair. A video was uploed by fiancés Krystyna Sorrenti, 32, and Devin, 29,  who tried out ir 'chair challenge' after y were bored on. chair challenge requires a person to walk up to a wall and take two steps back with each step being length of your foot before bending over 90° at waist and placing ir he against wall. person can place a chair underneath himself and attempt to stand up while holding piece of furniture.

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Woke up with 1 million views

Foot of ir attempt shows that Krystyna bending down to retrieve chair and n fully standing up and that too on her first attempt. On or hand, challenge was a bit difficult for Devin as he struggles to maintain his balance and becomes stuck when trying to stand erect. Krystyna said that y tried challenge on TikTok randomly out of boredom one night trying to figure out how to use app. She ded that next morning y woke up with one million views. Many experts also indulged in to try and explain why men appear to be struggling so much with challenge.

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US scientist Jeremy Johnson describes reason

US scientist Jeremy Johnson wrote a blog post describing many girls can successfully complete this challenge, while most boys cant. He said that its all due to centre of mass. center of mass for most of girls is lower to hips while center of mass in boys is much higher. Meanwhile, Professor Brian Ford at Cambridge University came up with a different conclusion believing size of men's feet might have something to do with it. He said that men have longer feet than women. He said that larger feet result him to stand farr from wall than woman.

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