World's Hardest Tongue Twister

 

You guessed it.

"Pad kid poured curd pulled cod."

Actually, at some point,

“the sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick”

held the Guinness World Record for the toughest twister, but since the category no longer exists, the title was probably revoked.

Check out this article on the phrase now deemed “most difficult”. Believe it or not, a study has actually been done on it.

World's toughest tongue twister? Try it 10 times fast

Jessica Durando, USA TODAY

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have dubbed this tongue twister the world's most difficult.

"If anyone can say this (phrase) 10 times quickly, they get a prize," said Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, an MIT psychologist.

In their study, the researchers tried to understand whether they could induce double sound mistakes (such as "c" and "t") with different types of tongue twisters. They recorded volunteers saying a simple list of words such as "top cop" and full-sentences such as "the top cop saw a cop top."

But "pad kid poured curd pulled cod" proved to be the hardest one to get through.

The MIT psychologists, who created the twister, said participants in the study had two reactions when they attempted this combination of words. They either failed to repeat it or stopped talking altogether, Shattuck-Hufnagel said.

So, go ahead, try it 10 times fast.

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