The Institute · The Challenge
Keep a silence.
Sit, start the timer, and make no sound. Stop to file your duration against the house record: twenty-two minutes, Thursday, broken by a pigeon.
22:00House record
1Timer
0Excuses, graded
Rules of the attempt
Sit. Start the timer. Make no sound until you stop it. Coughing ends the attempt, as does laughing, telephoning, and replying-all. Stopped silences are filed below with their durations; abandoned ones are not spoken of. The pigeon rule applies: interruptions by pigeons are minuted, not penalised.
The timerRoom 5 · Borrowed
00:00
No silences kept on this machine. The house record stands at 22:00.
Filed silences, this machine
- None yet
- No silences kept. The room is ready when you are.
To beat 22:00Sit for twenty-two minutes and one second. The Warden will count you with the sleeping. See the official silence log.