22 Contests at Which People Are Pretty Sure They Could Beat the Devil

You know the song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”? If not, you’re either too young or too cool to be reading this. If you don’t feel like looking it up on Spotify or Tsunami or whatever the kids use to stream music these days, it’s about a bet the devil makes with a young Southern violinist: If he can play better than the devil, he gets a golden violin, but if not, he has to give the devil his soul.

That raises a whole lot of questions: Why even take that bet? Metal isn’t a very good material for constructing violins, is it? Where did the devil learn to play violin? Is he generally magically competent, so he just chose whatever bet he thought his target would accept? And what if the devil had stumbled upon you? If the devil looked you up and down, what contest with him would he think you’d think you could win?

That’s what was on user MittyPoots’s mind when they asked r/AskReddit, “In a ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ scenario, at what mundane competition could you beat the devil?”