How many views did “Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT” get?

SmarterEveryDay · published 2023-06-01 · TubeCount #85, played 2026-09-04

Why this one

SmarterEveryDay has been Destin Sandlin's applied physics platform for fifteen years. His 11.9 million subscribers have produced a view floor around 7.5 million per video — one of the most consistent baselines in science YouTube, earned by always delivering something that works as a demonstration regardless of prior knowledge. Bullets hitting bullets in slow motion. The concept requires no scientific vocabulary: two bullets fired at each other, high-speed camera, result. Twenty-five million. The outlier mechanism is specifically the uncertainty: you can watch the setup and genuinely not know whether the collision is even possible, whether both bullets survive, whether anything interesting happens at all. Sandlin spent two weeks coordinating with firearms engineers to make a shot that physics suggested was near-impossible. The 25 million are the people who needed to know how it ended — a group that is larger than SmarterEveryDay's subscriber count because 'will this work?' is a question anyone can have.

How everyone did

9 players called this one. The average score was 24 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 51× off.