The One-Minute Challenge
Draw a random topic you cannot explain yet. Research it for fifteen minutes. Then explain it out loud in sixty seconds, one take, no script.
Ready when you are
Draw a topic
One topic, one line of orientation, no takebacks.
1. Fifteen minutes to research
Read anything you like. Stop when the clock stops.
15:00
2. Sixty seconds to explain it
One take. When you drift, jump to the next beat.
How it works
- Draw. Pick a category or leave it on everything. You get a topic and one line telling you what it is.
- Research. Fifteen minutes. The links next to your topic open the Wikipedia article and a Google search.
- Speak. Sixty seconds, one take. A tone warns you at ten seconds, and the three beats stay on screen: what it is, why it matters, what it changes.
Topics do not repeat until you have worked through the category. Nothing is recorded here, so film it however you like, and tag me when you post it.
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Does this use my microphone?
No. The page draws a topic and runs two clocks. It never requests microphone access and never records anything.
Where do the topics come from?
A hand-built bank of about one hundred topics across eight categories. Each one is researchable in fifteen minutes but not already common knowledge.
Can I get the same topic twice?
Not until you have drawn every topic in the category you are on. What you have seen is stored in your own browser.