For the last seventeen years, a silent contest has waged across World of Warcraft’s Night Elf population: Who can score the longest chain of consecutive front flips? Until recently, the record was 16, but World of Warcraft streamer SingActDirect just beat the old record with 17 jumps in a row–a fitting gift of probability for WoW’s 17th anniversary.

In World of Warcraft, Night Elves, Blood Elves, and Worgen have about a 20% chance to perform a special jumping animation each time players jump. Night Elves have been in World of Warcraft since the beginning, however, meaning the competition over their front flips has been going on for years longer than the Blood Elves’ twirl or the Worgen backflip, added in Burning Crusade and Cataclysm respectively.

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The clip captured by SingActDirect was taken in World of Warcraft Classic, in the Dagger Hills region of Westfall. Perched on a small hill, SingActDirect’s level 18 Druid, aptly-named Kittypurry, began her hopping spree, only to glance around after performing all 17 consecutive jumps as if to see if anyone noticed. Considering the 20% chance of each individual jump occurring after the first, the chances of doing this are so astronomically low that the probability would need scientific notation to express.

The previous Night Elf jump record holder was Horkheimer, member of the Crazy Frog Fan Club guild, who performed 16 jumps during the cutscene leading up to battle against the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel back in 2020. Before then, Yewna held the record with 15 jumps back in 2016, also in Westfall. Others have claimed to have broken even higher jump records, with one player claiming to have reached 19 jumps, but without video proof, SingActDirect holds the high score.

World of Warcraft fans always adore absurd challenges and lucky milestones like this, so the responses were universally positive. Most people immediately beg the players in question to go and play the lottery, considering the odds of winning it are higher than performing such feats. Others warn these players they may have spent all of their luck in capturing their accomplishments, and that they should never test their luck again.

Other still have said the video of SingActDirect’s accomplishment is the best content to come from WoW in years. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has seen less and less success in the year since its launch, in part due unpopular system design and narrative direction, and also due to the lawsuits and allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination levied against Activision Blizzard during the summer. With so much negative press surrounding Blizzard recently, it is refreshing to see the community be able to celebrate this fantastic, if not goofy, feat that anyone can appreciate, even if they are justifiably unhappy with Blizzard right now.

World of Warcraft Classic is out now on PC.

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