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¿Question #4264?
Randy Cox: Ever stack pennies on your elbow and then quickly whip your arm down and catch them in the palm of your hand (the hand attached to the same arm as the elbow the pennies were stacked on)? What's your record number of pennies where you caught every single one of them?

ocdspectrum: I usually do quarters or gold dubloons.
BOBBYCAN: When you can take this pebble from my hand it will be time for you to go, grasshopper.
Shleeg: wow this is SO WEIRD! i kept reading and reading, trying to find the part where randy talks about how the youth of today shouldn't stack pennies, or "pennies these days" or something about online penny lingo... but there was none to be found? is it a post-chrissamasu miracalu? yes children, yes it is.
Felimid: I tried to do that many years ago. I think I managed up to a dozen or so. But I used quarters instead of pennies.
jcaraway: been a while, but I remember about 16 mex. After that, I'm just whipping them away.
Spirit of 70: No.
Woelf: One
Phil Fleischmann: Pennies, no. Quarters, yes. I probably did about a dozen, but it's been years since I tried it. Don't have any change on me at the moment, or I'd try it again now.
Polgara: i suck at this, prob. 1 or 2
JimBragg: 44
GrimJester: Yes. Don't know how many, I'll guess about 20? It's not hard catching them, it's hard balancing the stack long enough.
UhhhClem: A guy I went to high school with snatched 105 dimes (out of 110) on the Tonight Show.
Geosphere: I can do 2 stacks of 20. I don't know of any record, never really tried to remember.
diehard4life: *owww, my eye*
Squigherder: Yes back when I was a kid, I can remember my brother beign very good at it, but regardless thansk for the diea, no school here today and now sall the kids I'm watching are trying it.
ironsizide: Nope.
ositobrian: Never
POvidiusNaso: 15.
Nazhuret: five thousand. no, seriously.
kpetzing: no
Hector Vortac: Amazingly I just gave the answer to this for a completely different question. I use quarters and have caught 25.
DHEK: Never done that. I realize this is a cute trick to learn though, but I've never bothered to.
Butterbane: never tried ... may try when I get home
aleo09: no
GrandpaDave: No
citizengeek: Nope
Ebon Wendigo: I spread them out on my arm and catch them individually. My record is four.
duLac956: 100 (of course, they were rolled up)
Johan: Yes. Can't remember.
SisyphusX: No, so no.
vampywife: no, i'm not that talented.
scriptorum: Yes. 10? Maybe? Who knows, long time ago.
Gizensha: No. Might have tried, but if I did I probably only made it to one caught.
TheDS: 0! yippee!
kevinwho: Good heavens, yeah, I used to do that! I haven't thought of that in many years, so I don't recall the number. At least 10, though I suspect I probably tried multiple stacks at some point. Man, that takes me back about 20 years or more!
javelin98: Yep. Can't remember
brainrob: 5, I think
Tim Synge: Ten pence pieces. Twelve.
Kazin: No.
rawdawg: 0
_Kael_: Nope. 5.
slapdash: no. but i have put pennies on my knee while riding a rollercoaster so the penny flies up and hits someone when going down hill. actually the penny cant fly up can it?
GI Joe: Yes; can't recall any record, though
djlg: Yes, but not for a longtime. 5 I think.
puffinge: I'm too uncoordinated for all that.
Tailuje: like, four.
archduke: 5
dietevil: Nope, I'm totally uncoordinated that way.
jttm: Never.
CDRodeffer: I used to do that at camp. I think I caught maybe 20 or 30 at a time, but my hands aren't very big.
skelebone: I've caught one that way.
chaddyboy_2000: I've done it with one penny.
CortexBomb: Nope
Lord_Prussian: I used nickels and I don't remember the results--maybe 5.
Randy Cox: 43 (not 42).
Spielfreak: I probably did it in my youth. ; dunno -- should I start recording such events?