No Skipping the Rock Skipping Meet This past weekend on Boothbay Harbor in Midcoast Maine, the owners of Orne's Candy Store, John and Arthur Webster, held their third annual rock skipping contest.

The prototype in the video below did a respectable job skipping stones, but it was nowhere near optimal. [Mark] then engaged the kids on a careful exploration of the mechanics of rock skipping ...

Neither is permitted. Such is the serious business of competitive rock skipping. There are a few annual competitions. One of the most popular takes place on Mackinac Island , in Michigan.

Ex-NASA engineer and Youtube inventor Mark Rober has made a perfect rock-skipping robot. Not only can the robot perform impressively, but it can help you learn how to skip rocks better too.