Marble racing is something a lot of people wouldn't normally watch. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to stay in our homes, affecting not only livelihoods and education but also how we live our lives, which includes how we entertain ourselves, at least in the pandemic's initial onset.
Professional sports are not among the available options to entertain ourselves as most, if not all, kinds of it are canceled or suspended. You can only do so much with tabletop games, and watching and rewatching your collection of movies, TV series, and shows exclusive to streaming apps can get old quickly.
But someone saw the gap in the market for novel ideas for people to watch, and that someone is the people behind marble races. The idea was to have marbles slide down a track and see who wins first - like a makeshift racing game.
There are many popular marble race tracks out there, but we have listed a few of the most popular ones for your convenience.
Here are some of those marble race tracks:
Benny Jose's Epic Marble Race Tournament Track
Let's start with one of the most outrageous marble race tracks on Youtube. Although Youtuber Benny Rose didn't elaborate about the marble race track he created in his video, we can tell much about the race track just from observation alone.
The track Benny Rose created was a combination of spirals, wells for marbles to spin into, and gears that looked like a plastic castle-turned-marble race track. It got so high that it seems to almost reach Benny Jose's ceiling. It is even wide enough to match a couch's.
Benny Jose's video had gained 7.2 million views since it was uploaded on Oct. 15, 2017, and it is still increasing ever so slowly to this day.
M&H Racing's Seven Elevator Race Track
While not as elaborate as Benny Jose's M&H's marble race track is one of the most ambitious out there. The race track consists of seven elevators, wells, and even loops that started from the first floor of his house and ended in his studio.
M&H mentioned in the video's description that the track never worked in one go as some marbles ended up falling or getting stuck in certain areas.
However, he made some adjustments to the track, and after multiple trial and error attempts, he got a recording where all marbles got to the finish line.
M&H Racing's video currently has 3.7 million views and counting.
Fubeca's Marble Run's Under Marble Run Race Track
Finally, we've come to one of the most creative marble race tracks out there.
Youtuber Fubeca may not have elaborated on their race track, but observing their race track tells us that their race track consists of a few wells, an elevator, and a piece of plastic tubing that allows the marbles to go underwater.
Although the track may be on the simplistic side, the creativity of using plastic tubing to let marbles go underwater briefly and creating what seems to be a marble race track inspired by Olympic stadiums out of legos takes the proverbial cake.
Fubeca's video has 7.2 million views and is still increasing by the minute.
