People Share Their Best 'That Actually Worked' Moments 

This man deadass performed some necromancy on a harddrive

I was playing a game and jokingly said "I could crash the server if I wanted to" Somone said "Do it" Then moments later the server crashed, I began dying of laughter and when I rejoined multiple people accused me of hacking as I just sat there in shock of my new found power, still cannot believe the timing of it

When I play a new online game and the first user name I make isn't taken

My freshman year of college I turned in actual garbage for an assignment and got an A. I had forgotten about a project that was due in my contemporary art class and had less than an hour until class started. Panicking, I grabbed two empty water bottles from my trashcan, filled one side with red kool-aid, glued the lids together, poked a hole through the middle, then put the two bottles together and created a makeshift hourglass. For finishing touches I drew Native American symbols on this literal piece of trash with sharpy. My friend in the class told me it was never going to work, and obviously I agreed with her since it looked so bad but I just didn't want to get a zero. Embarrassingly, I presented this mess to the class and winged a speech about space-time and humanity's impact on the environment. My professor loved it. The other students (who spent 2-3 weeks working on theirs) were mad as hell and I could see their jaws drop as she began to praise how creative I was. This was my "That actually worked?" moment that also made me reconsider my education for awhile. There were paintings and projects that I would spend weeks working on to only be met with a B, but this last minute trash grab with no thought or effort got me an A.

Can we get a "Careful, he's a hero" meme for that hard drive?

I wrote a long ass script and did the first test and. it.. just... worked. Every programmer will understand.

I didn't know the answer to a question on a science test, so I put: "I can't answer this for religious reasons" It was marked as correct. No questions asked.

The teacher once asked us in their grade a random mathematical problem. And me, without thinking about it yelled "381!" For absolutely no specific reason. And she looked so baffled. Until now, she thinks I'm some soft of a genius.

Lol I like the one where the dude hit on the girl hoping to cheer his buddy up (and ended up getting married to her🤣) If you're willing to purposefully get slapped, get a drink thrown at you, or face some other public rejection/humiliation just to lift your friend's mood, that's some friendship goals right there!

My friend tried to get an orange juice from a vending machine. I was gonna get an apple juice but I was broke. She bought the orange juice and it got stuck. Me, assuming it wouldn't work, told her to try buying the apple juice right above it. (She didn't know I wanted apple juice) she bought it, and it fell, pushing the orange juice and itself out of the machine. She said I could have the apple juice. She got her drink and I got a free one. Win-win.

"That actually worked moment": When i was a teenager I worked at a Wendy's restaurant. I was cleaning off the tables in the dining area with a wet rag when I spotted a fly buzzing around the room, annoying some guests. I wound up the rag, figured "what the hell" and as soon as it landed on a table I snapped the rag at the fly. Killed it instantly, first shot. Some people sitting at a table nearby stared at me in amazement. I felt pretty awesome that day.

Friend’s IPod was broken at lunch time so when he placed it on the table so I punched it pretty roughly since it was already broken. The panic in his face turned to amazement as the iPod worked flawlessly since then. That’s how I earned the nickname Filipino Jesus

I went to some site with 'win a iPhone X's here!!!!!!!' And I actually got a virus

I once said to my teacher that I had a pdf of the file at home, and that i’d bring it tommorow, she said ok, it was friday...

Once, when I was in high-school, I had a free period and I just aimlessly wandered the halls with my buddy when we met our literature teacher and bc we were bored we greeted him nicely and asked what he was doing. And he replied, “oh, what a coincidence, I just went to copy your tests for tomorrow!” And i asked him: „Could we get a look?“ And he just shrugged, said „sure“ and handed us one of the sheets for like 20 seconds, before he walked to the xerox with it and left us standing with our mouth gaping. It wasn’t long, but surely long enough to remember the task and prepare for it in the afternoon. Needless to say, we both got an A.

This is small but I picked my diary lock with my bobbypin... felt like a level 100 locksmith

*Teacher forgot about homework, and no one said anything*

That claw machine story sounds like something straight outta sponge bob

This is like a dumb no shit Sherlock thingy, but I saw a post online that said if you laid completely still in bed for 15 minutes, you’d fall asleep. Someone replied and took the piss out of the person like “yeah, that’s how sleep works.” Anyway, I have trouble going to sleep, it takes hours sometimes. I thought about that post randomly and stayed completely still for 15 minutes and passed out. Even though it’s completely obvious that would happen, it was just like a breath of fresh air for me and ever since, I’ve been falling asleep just fine. Because yeah, that’s just how sleep works.

I think that last one is a message for me to actually sleep. Good shit

When I was in middle school one day the bathroom was locked and nobody could open it. Everyone kept trying to pick it or just turn the doorknob repeatedly. It locked from the inside and nobody had a key, so I grabbed a paper clip and semi-sarcastically attempted to pick it. To my amazement, it actually worked and the bathroom door opened. To this day that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever done.

I think we all has had this one Hitting the controler until it works!!! When it actually works. "Wow,that actually worked"

Guessing answers on a test and got 99

When I was 5 and I fixed my non-booting Windows 98 computer by inserting a random floppy disk with nothing but the number "5" written on it that I'd found in a box in my dad's office.

One time i was being catfished. I asked ‘hey, are you fake?’ The catfish simply replied with ‘yes’

When your teacher believed your reason why your late and why you don't have an assignment. **Infinity War Theme Intensifies**

*_It just works_*

I was in my science class Teacher: who invented the Bunsen burner? Me (jokingly): Mr Bunsen Teacher: That’s right Edit: HOLY CRAP! OVER 2K LIKES! THANK YOU!

On a Calculus 2 test, I was desperate to pass but was in the middle of taking a final, realizing I didn't know how to answer the question. I was super bummed but skipped it for now. Near the end of the test, I found a similar question but in reverse. Referencing the two questions, I went through a bunch of mumbo jumbo assumption crap and came up with a formula that somehow worked, applied it to both problems. Over the break, the teacher emailed me asking how I got the question (we were supposed to show work) and I simply said "it was an equation I found on some site a while back". He claimed he'd never seen it in his life, and he's been teaching calculus for 30 years. Idk what the fuk I wrote, all I care about was that he gave me credit for the 2 questions, passing the final with a 71, passing me from Cal 2 with a 70. (A previous exam was a 44. The final replaced your lowest test grade. I needed a 70 to pass the course) gottem

*mines on y coordinate 12* *_finds diamonds_* "Wow, that actually worked"

"I was at a claw machine, idk what theyre called." "oh, you mean a claw machine?"

When I landed my parachute down a steep dirt road with 2 semi serious malfunctions... Thank God it was so steep. The malfunctions caused me to come in at a horrible angle, but one that matched the grade of the slope perfectly.

A few years back I was working at an amusement park by my house, but I told them I switched between two houses when I really didn’t (to play off being late). Got a heads up from a friend that I was getting one of the shitty areas so I decided I would just call out. Went to my computer, I looked up freeway ambience on YT, bumped up the volume a bit, as well as my subwoofer and I let it play as I called my divisions office. My manager answered the phone and I explained to him that my truck blew a head gasket on the freeway and that I wouldn’t be able to make it, all while it sounds like actual vehicles going by me. He asked if it was Internal or External, as I’m not a car guy, I just told him internal to wing it and he goes “Sorry to hear that. Stay safe on the side of the freeway and wait for help, no need to inspect the engine” I felt bad because he was actually somewhat nice at the end but he was always a dick to people. Get rekt Dave

I tried driving, but it didn’t work.. However, once I switched to Geico I automatically saved 15% or more on car insurance

"I'll never be so cool again in my entire life" I feel you bro lmao

I tried breathing air and it actually worked wtf

On the school bus some guy was about to fight me and he said, "You think you're tough do you?" and I told him "Well not tougher than you" and he just left me alone

10:38 "my terrible sleeping pattern is based on my mental health" said a user named Mulled RedBull.

I once had a PC tower that I had to sweet talk to turn on. Tell her what a pretty tower she was. How her color's changed so nice (there was a fancy color face) . Even got to the point where I had to stroke her. I miss that Tower

Told someone i was psych. They asked me to tell them what they were thinking. I said "youre thinking that im not psych". Boom

you know what didn’t work? My will to live

When I was about 10 or so I slept on the top bunk of a bunk bed, and I would sometimes forget to turn off the lights before I got into bed. So I realized that I forgot to turn off the lights one night and just sat there, but what I also realized is I still had my socks on. I pulled off the first one and threw it at the light across the room and of course nothing happened. But then I thought to myself I need to get the hole of the sock to hook onto the top of the light switch. So I threw it a little different and it actually freaking worked the lights turned off and I kinda just went to bed. Might be one of the craziest things I've ever done. I don't talk about it a lot because I still don't fully believe its real lol.

I was getting a KitKat from a vending machine and, from past experiences, it looked to me like it was going to get stuck on the way out, so I kicked the vending machine and two KitKats came out

My friend the once poured holy water on his Xbox to get it to work again after it started freezing. One drop of holy water and the damn thing was right as rain

When I made a "weather machine"(it was an LED light, no power source, 4 wires, and four wire caps IIRC.) Someone asked me to make it snow. I pretended to do so. Not even 30 minutes later, a blizzard struck the school.

had a problem with my x360 not reading disks so a friend told me that if you drop it (carefully) onto a soft surface it would shake something loose didn't believe him, tried it, lo and behold it worked almost perfectly for the next several years

I can vouch for the last one. Other than the difference being I started taking anti-depressants, I had literally no daily schedule and it was wrecking me(I'm in a situation where I'm home every day, *all* day). So, I set a bedtime and a wake-up time, and made a routine around it. I would always read in bed on my phone before going to sleep, which I also stopped doing. Two months later, I can confidently say it worked. I feel, like, 75% better. Really though, I think if you just get no more/less than 7.5-8 hours of sleep every night, you'll be ok.

It was aprils fool day. I jokingly confess my crush that I like her. She starts laughing and we start dating. Wut the hell did i get myself into.

I dropped my iPad once 6 years ago. The drop caused the thing to shutdown so I boot it again but it's stuck in Apple logo for an unusual amount of time. 10 minutes later it's still on the logo. My 6 year old little sister told me to grab an apple (the fruit) and rub it on the iPad and pray like some satanic ritual. (She watches too much Harry Potter) So I played along for the gags. Surprisingly, the iPad actually booted up.

I tried existing And it worked

I’ve had a experience like this one time when I was like 7 or something I was play with baby frog in a pan idk why i was but one of the frogs had gotten bitten by a ant and passed out or died so I pressed on its chest doing CPR then the little frog jumped up alive again I felt like god...

Once my friend was playing pool and he missed his shot. I laughed at him and he told me "well if it's so easy try it" and handed me the queue (i never played pool in my life). I proceed to hit the ball and hit it right in the hole. I felt so cool that day

I was in a college wrestling tournament. My high school had no sports teams so I had never wrestled before. I just joined to try it out. I was a complete noob and every one else had years of experience. I lost my first match and checked the brackets to see who I could wrestle next. I was going to wrestle the loser of this one match so I watched it to see how the winner pulled it off. In my next match I tried to copy what the winner I had observed did and I pinned the guy in one minute. I was like wtf lol

I saw a class mate of mine leave a slip of paper on the desk. Me, knowing exactly how this would play out for some reason my brain just showed me some sort of a 3D stimulation. My friend had noticed me staring at the ground and asked what was wrong. I proceeded to tell him what happened. We laughed it off but here’s the crazy part. EVERY SINGLE THING HAPPENED I predicted someone falling, questions to problems, a person screaming after losing something, the fact that there was a surprise movie in class. Never happened again since but I still love the reaction on my friend’s face when he found out everything happened.

"Wow, it actually worked!" Every minecraft redstone engineer

about a year ago there was a burger king app released and if you sign up to it with an email address you would get 490 points, which could then be redeemed for a whopper meal or this other one i cant remember, so me and my mates would make a tonne of email addresses at school and make multiple accounts, then walk down to the burger kind across the road and get a free meal or two each. we did this every day for a week until the app was changed

Once threw keys over my head to catch behind me. Realised I completely over threw them. Stepped backwards, stretched my hand out and caught them perfectly Much to the annoyance of the friend who tried it first.

It's called percussive maintenance, by the way.

> Waiting for train to arrive > Want snickers > Don't have money > Kick the vending machine in despair > 2 coins drop out > mfw

Sometimes it work, sometimes it work'nt

One time I said in class that paper was very useful and also tasted good. The teacher replied by saying "I have actually tried eating paper a few times and it wasn't bad." The whole class laughed and I was really glad that didn't backfire.

Once I got in a ditch with my car somehow but luckily there was a random Guy with his tractor willing to pull me out. Only problem: We had no tow rope. So we took this guys leather Belt. It actually worked!!!

Just a month ago: My dad's printer/scanner wasn't working. It would turn on but refused to respond to anything. After doing the normal stuff (unplug, plug back in, software check), none of which did anything, I just gave the printer a solid SLAP on the side. It immediately chugged to life and started printing documents again.

when a copyright strike actually gets resolved

I ordered a beer in a restaurant, I was 16 so the waiter asked me how old i was. I said “30” very seriously. He laughed and just gave the beer

I had a pair of headphones that didn’t work. So I took a pencil and jammed it in the little hole. It still works to this day.

I got pulled over for speeding once. I told the officer i was "following the flow of traffic" and he surprisingly let me off with a warning lmao.

Teacher: Syd? What the answer? Me: ’just woken up’ 32 *complete guess* Teacher: that right! Me: fuuuck yeaaah!

He instinctively says "may i have ur mercy"😂😂😂😂😂

I once had a cool claw grabber machine moment where my mom (yes my mom) wanted this one plushie of the reindeer in the top hat dude from one piece (dunno his name) and there were multiple colors (of clothes on the plushies) I failed a couple times and asked if it had to be the pink one, my mom said no and I proceeded to get a yellow one first try, also another time I got a life size Charmander (0.6m tall)

me: doesn’t revise for my science test me: aces said test science teacher who obviously didn’t know about me not revising: you should keep using this method of revision in future tests my science teacher told me to never revise for tests. good one mr downing.

This ones for my toolbox Bois Ok so one time I gave my password to a guy not knowing that he could steal my account because back then i was a dumb kid and when he logged off my account I had builders club and 115 robux and he told me that I shouldn’t allow anyone on my account and that I should change my password. The guy got banned a few years ago but I still think about it sometimes

True story, I work at a "seafood" processing plant. Injuries were common place and I tried for approximately 9 1/2 months to convince our safety board to rectify a particular situation. The weird thing is that I was also an active member of that safety board and was finally fed up with the delays, due to fellow co-workers still getting hurt. Now understand, I was directly connected to the job therefore I had to act before I became injured as well. I drafted a petition and signed it first, then asked my other department members (of which there were nine of us total) to sign it. They immediately did so with no hesitation. I went through the "proper channels" and it was given to our head of management. I knew that I would take the blame for it and sure enough, first thing, next morning, head managers office, before I started my shift on the floor. Although I should have been nervous, I was confident and ready to argue to the bitter end. After some discussion, arguments, fingerpointing and me cursing and naming names of the safety delinquents, everyone present came to an agreement that change was needed and asked what I would advise them to do. I, in detail explained what was required of management and one of the management team (respectfully, female) was the only one who 100% understood what I required. She has quite a machanical mind. Trying to explain to the males, not so much. She asked me to take the necessary measurements, and three days later she delivered. This was almost 1 and 1/2 years ago and no employee has had a similar accident since. My "wow that it actually worked" is the petition. I no longer work with that particular department, however I am still employed there and have dealt with safety issues my way.... DIRECTLY! Due to this I have been labeled "the rebel". I am, as I write this, dealing with another issue regarding another department I am presently working, where a very serious accident occured. Due to having to get personally involved and take over rescue and aid, a lot of questions went through my mind about how this could have been avoided. Had the safety board listened to specific requests/demands, made by various employees including myself almost two years ago, concerning a keylock tagout system. Too late, due to once again, delays. On my own, the "rebel" has already started the wheels in motion once again by complaining all the way to head of management. I have met with them, one female (same one) and two males and once again the female understood that a specific tool was necessary to get someone out of the machine faster than had already occured, and once again the males were not so understanding as to the detail of what was needed. She gave me a piece of paper and I drew the design for her. She advised myself that it would be made by the same company that does our welding contracts. I will be requesting a follow up appointment with her again in a couple of days and am positive that the necesssary changes will be made. Including a rescue drill for that departments employees. I do get results only because of that first petition. Management knows that I will go to great lengths, including being fired because if and when I have to go outside of the company to Workmans Comp, the company knows I will do so. I am taken seriously all because of that petition. Work safe everyone, and remember your opinion on safety in the work place does matter.

Not sure if this counts, but one time in 8th grade I was spacing out in my Math Lab class and when I come to, everyone else is making fart noises for no reason. It quiets down after a while, and my teacher quips, "Ya know, if anyone needed to fart, that would've been the perfect time. I look him in the eye from across the classroom and rip the loudest fart the world has ever seen. I never have and never will again made a teacher laugh so hard in my life.

2:54 that’s a toy story moment right there lmao

Once when me and my pals were playing DnD (we were quite new to the game, and had a bunch of modified rules, which basically included "luck" where you could roll a d20 and change the properties of an object/spell, depending on the roll of course), and we were just these low level idiots who were strolling around looking for bandits or something. Basically, we found a castle, me(the dwarf, who has darksight, which for non-DnD players means i can see much better in the dark) went first. I was a wizard, focussing on fire spells and from personal experience/idiocy i developed a resistance to fire spells (it may or may not have involved blowing up a town, accidentally of course) and as we were exploring we heard a loud growling above us, and i felt heat coming from the roof. Suddenly a dragon bursts from the roof, nearly missing me with its fire breath, and we all ran. Once we got outside, my friends( an elven archer and a human priest) started shooting at the dragon (our priest picked up a bow from some dead bandits earlier) and i devised a plan. I had a spell called prestigigutation, or something. Basically it means i can soil an object, or a bunch of other stuff, but we took this as "Oh cool! I can make people sh*t themselves!" so i cast prestigigutation on the dragon, rolled for luck on the poop, and lo and behold, it's " Highly combustible, and it seems sticky enough to apply, say, to an arrow" so my buddies started shooting poop arrows at the dragon, aiming for the mouth, while i waited. And as soon as i saw the dragon about to spew fire, i froze its mouth. I crit. The dragon's mouth exploded, and we were all like "HOW IN HELL ARE WE ALIVE"

Once one of my classmates just asked our teacher for no homework, and the teacher just a said "okay, since you asked so nicely," and we got no homework. Just like that.

I once jokingly asked my mom if I could have $50 she casually said OK

May i have your mercy. Ima steal that

in 11th grade i slept every english lesson, like actually every single english lesson. Wasn't horrible or anything, but my teacher had a really calming voice and like to go an tangents. Some day i told myself english is now my favourite subject and i'm super interested in it, actually worked. Still wish i could fall asleep in my bed as fast as in class. Also: every time my code actually runs.

"wow, that worked?" -bill wurtz

I was thinking of a new username for an online game and I’ve tried like fifty times so I typed “Is there a username not taken” out of frustration and that became my name ever since.

3:04 what a power move

In 2015 (i think it was october? Probably november idk) my family and I were on vacation in hong kong. We went to Hong Kong Disneyland and they were giving out free stickers. I've heard they only give a certain amount of stickers per person, per ride, and it was true. I tried getting a couple more stickers but they said "that's enough" in a happy, bubbly tone so it didn't upset me too much. Then a girl about my age came up to me and said "just say you have permission to get more stickers." And I did. It worked. I came back to my hotel with 2 bags full of disney stickers. It was nice. (That trick also worked when I asked for a free waffle.)

Most of this is percussive maintenance to the rescue. My work has this like 30 year old reciept printer. It's beige and looks like it has an extreme sun tan from being too close to the window for decades. Sometimes the motor just doesn't dispense the paper properly because it's likely clogged with 30 years of dust, so a light smack to the top of it will knock it back in order for a month or two. Note, this usually only works if there's a loose connection, dirty connectors, or something obstructing the mechanism, so it would be proper practice to disconnect all the things, clean them, dust out the interior and then put it back together. But smacking it will work for a surprisingly long time, especially when you're not qualified to fix the equipment and could be fired if you tampered with it.

Percussive maintanence works far more often than seems reasonable.

When your *short* and can't reach your chips, grab a chair or someone. *It just works*

Me asking out my crush and her saying yes. We've now been together happily for just over a month

Mom had a copy of windows 07 that kept saying the liscense wasnt valid even though it was stock disc. She came to me to fix it since I apparently knew the most about computers in the family even though I was like 14 and just knew how to google better than her. On a wild guess I threw the disc in and reinstalled the OS. No problems after.

I moved into a new school one year and was put into a debate class. I had never done debate before in my life so I had no idea how to format my argument or do research so my speech was very very terrible. When it became my turn to stand on the podium I decided that there was only one way I would be able to pull this off. I might not have taken debate, but I did take drama. I looked everybody in the eyes and spoke confidently and with “passion”. I hardly knew what I was talking about, but I acted as though I was about to lead an army into battle. I waved my arms around, slammed my fist into the table, the whole bit. My teacher gave me a standing ovation and even lectured the class on how that was how debate was supposed to be done. She gave me an A+. I was shocked. I also felt kinda bad because the other students put a lot of effort in their research, even if listening to them was like watching paint dry.

Thus happened last night when I was going to a concert. Got pulled over by a cop. He asked me if I knew why I got pulled over and I asked him if it were for speeding and he told me that’s what it was for. I told the cop that I was sorry and that it was my nieces first concert (it really was). He asked us, “Who are you going to see?” I told him, “Zac Brown Band.” He asked, “What’s your favorite song?” So i took the opportunity to say “Free” in hopes he’d let us go free. He did.

2:56 ur tellin me u didnt take that opportunity to be a badass, passing one to that kid and edgewalk away? Disappointed.

My friend magnet lost it's strength so I jokingly said give it cpr and it work just fine after that

3:05 the claw machine one was actually pretty cool

Put 20 peso bill into vending machine. It spat it out. I put it back it the exact same way. Vending machine accepted it.

3:04 this one time I won something at a claw machine, and the thing I picked up pushed something else in

"I'll never be so cool again in my entire life." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Back when laptops were new to the world we had an old computer that started to lag a lot and the screen would turn yellow sometimes, one time the computer was lagging so I said "we'll get a laptop if you keep lagging like this" and the computer stopped lagging right after I finished my sentence. We still got a laptop anyway rip computer

The irony that the best way to prevent drowning is to literally do nothing and wait until you float to the surfce

I once bought a skirt online that said it was $0. It really was $0 and I still have it and have never worn it. So yeah, chances are if something says $0, it probably is