‘Invisible Box Challenge’ Sweeps Internet With Wins, Epic Fails

It doesn’t take much to entertain on the internet, but the new “invisible box challenge” making the rounds is a lot more difficult than it looks. And it’s kind of fun. Here’s how it works: Pretend you’re putting one foot in a box, then hop over it with your other foot. If you can hop on one leg, you should be able to nail it.

The challenge has been around for a while after freshman football player Dontez Hines of Indiana’s Anderson University demonstrated the stunt in August, captioning his tweet “stepping over haters.” But it was Texas high school cheerleader Ariel Olivar who made the invisible box challenge “a thing.”

Olivar, a junior at Manvel High School, has some advice for anyone who wants to try it.

“It's hard to explain, I just keep the leg in the same exact spot,” she told the Houston Chronicle. “It is actually kind of challenging keeping it there. The technique, if you want to make it look like [the video], is to bring the other leg higher than the other as if you are actually stepping over a box."

Her video attracted so much attention that she was invited to perform the feat on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday.

The invisible box challenge is getting a lot of attention on Twitter. Some of the videos are hilarious, including this one of a person who let his fingers do the jumping. There were some epic fails, too, as well as this instructive video.

Below are Hines’ and Olivar’s videos.

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