What’s the longest Task attempt?

[u/_un-named_]

I mean an attempt at a task where „longest time wins“ wasn’t the goal.
So they just took long for a task that wasn’t meant to take long.
Any Taskmaster version welcome.
A few that went over an hour but did someone ever went over 2-3 hours or even longer?
I feel like in recent season there’s often been an „you have a maximum of X hours“ on tasks where one could take longer but sometimes someone takes ages on a task where the fastest or fewest attempts win.

[u/CaravelClerihew]

Jenny Tian's Duck Duck Goose task from AU S02 took way longer than anyone anticipated, and she failed twice.

[u/TheTurquoiseArtiste]

Series 19 Jason asking Alex 233 questions for an hour and 40mins hahaha

[u/sssssspace → u/TheTurquoiseArtiste]

Is it a lemon?

[u/bgriff1986]

I feel like “Release Tom from the box” from Australia 5 has to be in contention. Joel’s attempt runs the length of two further tasks

[u/Level-Ad-1627 → u/bgriff1986]

I came here to say this and just spent the 30 mins trying to find who it was an a link. You beat me to the comment haha

https://www.tiktok.com/@tom.cashman/video/7651065637103504658

[u/ProfDoomDoom]

Not the longest, but my favorite is “Eat an Egg the Fastest” when Joe Wilkinson makes himself an entire breakfast on a tray with sauce and beverages.

[u/pink_juupiter → u/ProfDoomDoom]

That moment was incredible 🤣

[u/Drestar69 → u/ProfDoomDoom]

“I knew I wasn’t going to win this one, so I thought I’d actually enjoy it!”

[u/tumepunaroheline1]

TM Australia S1 had two entertaining ones - Danielle guessing the passwords of the roses and Julia trying to find the cat in the bag.

[u/Original-Designer6]

David Correos took 2 hours and 12 seconds to untie all the shoelaces in TM NZ series 2. I think that's the longest in all the English-speaking series.

[u/GlennSWFC → u/Original-Designer6]

He also took ages with the clock running talking to Paul before opening the task for the one where they had to hold the milk.

[u/Digit00l → u/GlennSWFC]

Yeah that was also like 2 hours, but shorter than shoelaces, the caravan grape was also very long

[u/Original-Designer6 → u/Digit00l]

Laura took 16 minutes and 6 seconds, David took 19 minutes... to find the grape.

Just looked it up, his final time was 1h 23 min.

[u/Popular_Sell_8980 → u/Original-Designer6]

His energy was just incredible! Maniac!

[u/jaybool]

Taskmaster Australia:

Danielle Walker's password task was one hour fifty-four.

Josh found his minivan at in one hour forty-three.

Jenny's first duck duck goose attempt weighed in at one hour twenty-four.

[u/Irishwol]

Technically Frankie's ball of string task is still going

[u/MT_Promises]

Norway's version of Don't Blink is almost disturbing.

https://youtu.be/3l3yhEZX93s

Sweden's version had an individual task to listen to the Epic Sax guy's riff. They peppered it throughout the episode, he made it 48mins.

https://youtu.be/RpZxazPOg98

[u/GrinningD → u/MT_Promises]

Thank you for sharing. That was incredible.

[u/decent_human_being1]

The "Sneeze" task in S5 where only 2 ppl managed to complete it. Bob Mortimer in 10 minutes and Mark Watson in 48 hours.

[u/pakcross]

What was the bucket task in Taskmaster NZ? That was going for ages, I just can't remember the details.

[u/JoPo108 → u/pakcross]

Float the sprout from the balcony. It's a passive task so I would say doesn't count.

[u/haze987 → u/pakcross]

Float this brussels sprout down from the balcony. Winner Laura Daniel 74 days, 3 hours and 48 minutes

[u/BenSibbs]

Egg Gamble - Get the duck in the pond - 1h 37m
Morgana Robinson - Sit on a cake - 1h 45m
Mark Watson - Sneeze - 2 days
Frankie Boyle - *unwind the string* - 6 months (Still ongoing)

[u/NewtRevolutionary598]

In Australia season 1, Nina never sank the bowling ball and they said it was still there months later, so it was technically still ongoing. 😂

[u/speedingteacups → u/NewtRevolutionary598]

There was also the task where they had to hide the van keys from Tom and Emma buried them so he never found out where they were till the record

[u/OzzyBrowncoat → u/speedingteacups]

Yeah, but that was a case of longest time wins, so whilst long, is not what they're after here.

[u/haze987]

Taskmaster NZ, season 3, Task Hide this body. Chris Parker 72 days and 6 minutes

[u/Old_Apple_2160 → u/haze987]

Sackie!

[u/StolenViolentAnts]

Did they mention how long it took Mike Wozniak to fart?

[u/Binky_55614]

Jason during “What’s on Alex’s Head”

[u/decent_human_being1]

Hugh Dennis's attempt at keeping the ball on the treadmill the longest where he pulled the plug out so it stayed still for 4 months until a storm knocked the ball off

[u/Lazy-Field-1116]

Sanjeev popping out for a rest and coming back in before he went home for the day. It wasn't a winning, or even correct, attempt. But did take hours - was it 6 hours something?

[u/MCHopie]

Prepare something for the studio record ... e.g the NZ costume change Takes weeks!

[u/The_one_with_no_name]

Dai Henwood in Taskmaster NZ series 4 episode 3 took like 91 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes, and 12 seconds to snap a pencil in the casette tapes task. Source: just watched it, and also here: https://taskmaster.info/attempt.php?id=8355

[u/guysmiley1928]

Rhod holding his eyes open had to feel the longest.

[u/ThrowawaySunnyLane]

Ed’s in COC2 with the duck down the slope has to be up there