Speed Banana Eating

Im reading this thread and in 5 hours that I slept(Stilll tired), and WBA has been created, I learned too many bananas can kill you, and a experiment has been set out to find how many bananas that is,,,,ftw.
 
I like your efficient method for splitting the banana open. :tu

After the ingestion of many bananas, perhaps there are other chemicals that will accumulate to be more dangerous than potassium. Maybe we'll be better off searching for the lethal dosage of a different substance inherent in a banana. With regards to potassium, I don't particularly like the idea of using the LD50 of KCL as a guide for determining the lethal dosage of pure potassium, since we're looking at 2 different substances.

Through some searching I also came across some large numbers, just as qq said. At the moment it seems that the only realistic way of attaining a 'lethal dose' of bananas is if someone ruptures their stomach or chokes to death...
 
Do WSBA require the use of a Stackmat Timer, or will I be forced to do an unofficial solve. Also is a video required for the solve to be official? (Please tell me I don't have to go to a competition for an official solve) I will do one solve later today. (I'm going for sub-20)

P.S. If bananas DO have about half a gram of potassium, You should be at least able to eat 10 a day, based on the lower amounts of potassium that sites have said are lethal. (Maybe split it up into 2 sets of 5 at different times to be safe)
 
The single WR is 27 seconds at the moment, but the rules don't say how you round the times. Anyone who eats a banana in 27.49 seconds would share the WR with Trevor Mahoney?
 
Frankly, I am not a huge fan of bananas - never really liked the flavor, so I won't be competing, but I asked my sister how long she thought it would take her to eat a banana, and she was like 'um, 30 seconds I guess. Why?... O.o' Then I told her about the WSBA and she just stared at me like I was a freak :P
 
3d) Bananas should be between 7" - 9"
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is that end point to end point or along the curve? my current banana is only 5.5" point to point but has a rather large curvature value. just did a solve on it at 17.62, was slow pressing timer cuz i didnt know if i had to show mouth before or after so i did before.
 
samehsameh said:
is that end point to end point or along the curve? my current banana is only 5.5" point to point but has a rather large curvature value. just did a solve on it at 17.62, was slow pressing timer cuz i didnt know if i had to show mouth before or after so i did before.
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Along the curve is fine. That is more of a recommendation though, so anything bigger, or slightly smaller, along the curve is fine.
 
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