47 YouTube Challenge Video Ideas for 2024 (ULTIMATE List)

As you read this list of challenge ideas, keep your niche and channel needs in mind. If you see an idea you like that doesn’t seem to fit your target audience, think about how you could tweak it.

For this challenge, put on a blindfold and have a partner give you instructions to follow while you draw. Before you start, your partner should have an image in mind for the end result.

One of many fun DIY challenge ideas, use natural dyes from foods or other sources, and make your own tye-dye clothes or creations.

Grab some bowls, some spoons, and some cotton balls, and line up to see who can scoop the most cotton balls into their bowls within a certain amount of time.

The core concept of a memory challenge is to have a bunch of items or images to remember and then test the player’s memory. However, you can also turn it into more of a trivia theme.

One of many simple challenge ideas, team up with some friends or your partner and see who can flip their water bottle upright the fastest.

Order some of those oversized (I’m talking REALLY BIG!) Jenga blocks and play the biggest Jenga game of your life. Bonus fun for speed rounds.

BeanBoozled gives you two options of jelly beans to try that are the same color but have drastically different flavors. You don’t know which is delicious and which is terrible.

This challenge takes you to an escape room and has you share your experience solving puzzles to get out of an escape scenario. Challenge another channel to see who can get out the fastest.

Have a dance competition with friends or family to see who has the best moves. You can do this at an arcade, at home with some dance games on the switch, or freestyle.

This challenge video is really popular, and in it, someone stands or sits behind you and uses their arms to complete tasks like eating, drawing, or putting on makeup.

In this challenge, participants smash eggs on their eggs. The catch? Some are raw; some are hardboiled.

This is a fun video where audience members can play along. Play some popular music—the catchier, the better—and see how far you get before you sing along.

There are a lot of interesting Pringles flavors out there. Do a blind tasting where you have to try and guess each flavor.

There are lots of unique food challenge videos out there. For this one, you can only eat tiny foods for a whole day. Think of mini pizzas, tiny salads, and more.

Blend together random ingredients and then drink the results. You can have friends help pick the items to make the experience more fun and the results more random.

For this challenge, you apply 100 layers of something and see how it turns out. Think makeup, clothes, frosting on a cake, you name it.

For the whisper challenge, grab some noise-canceling headphones and film some friends whispering phrases while the person with the headphones has to guess what is being said.

This is one of the classic YouTube challenges. Grab a watermelon and a BUNCH of rubber bands, and see how many bands it takes for the watermelon to explode.

Using only homemade things, try to decorate a room according to a certain aesthetic. Think cottage core, japandi, modern, whatever you like.

Film yourself putting on your makeup without a mirror. This is another popular challenge on beauty and makeup YouTube channels.

Like the whisper challenge, this one also involves headphones. Instead, try to speak while wearing a set of headphones that plays your voice back with a slight delay.

For a whole day, only eat foods from one color group. You can level this up by requiring that the meals be fully balanced or contain at least three ingredients. You can also branch out to processed foods or food brand colors.

One person in this challenge is blindfolded while the other chooses random objects to put in the blindfolded person’s mouth. They then have to guess what the items are.

In another of the classic YouTube challenges, participants put more and more marshmallows in their mouths while trying to say the phrase “chubby bunny” and still be understood.

In this challenge, participants have a mouthful of water, and the others need to try to make them laugh.

This is one of the classic YouTube challenges where participants have 60 seconds to try and eat a spoonful of cinnamon.

For this challenge, a participant is blindfolded, and the other person guides their hand to touch different body parts. They then have to guess which part they are touching.

Participants decide who will eat real foods and who will eat the gummy versions and then film themselves. It’s pretty mild when it’s pizza or grapes, but when it’s tongue or eyes…

Participants listen to sound effects and have to guess the sounds they hear.

Using just what you have in your kitchen, challenge a friend to see who can make the best pancake art.

Another blind challenge, participants try different sodas and have to guess the flavors or brands.

This is a popular kids channel challenge, but anyone can do it. Act like the floor is lava and try to get from one point to the next without touching the floor.

Go thrifting or raid someone’s closet and find the ugliest clothes you can find. Then, try to DIY or alter them to make them into something cute or trending.

Eat frozen foods as fast as possible and try to endure the resulting brain freeze. This is a fun challenge to do with a group of friends or a partner.

YouTube challenges with food are always popular. Take the labels off canned food items, eat them, and try guessing what they are.

Pick different accents—or popular celebrities with distinctive accents—and try to match the way they talk.

Similar to the spicy foods challenge, grab sour foods, candies, and drinks and challenge some friends or a partner to see who can handle the most.

Another one of the classic YouTube challenges, film yourself (and some friends, partner, or family) eating the infamous ghost pepper.

For some, a lifestyle, for others, a challenge. Fill a bathtub with ice and water and see how long you can last.

Find a trending TikTok dance and challenge yourself to learn it. For extra fun, you can challenge another channel to see who can master it first.

Challenge yourself and some friends to eat baby food. This is most often done with the classic jarred food, but there are a lot of items to choose from, so get creative.

Participants tape their faces in funny ways and then try to complete everyday tasks without their hands. This adds a different level of humor to a typical no-hands challenge.

With a partner or friends, attempt different challenging yoga poses. The more ridiculous, the better.

Grab some duct tape and tape your thumbs to your hands. Then, go about your day trying to complete ordinary tasks.

For this challenge, you must say “no” to everything anyone asks you that day. This is fun to do without telling anyone you know—you can get some pretty surprised responses from people.

At first glance, it may seem like a lot of these videos don’t fit your niche. If that’s the case, I recommend thinking outside the box a little.

For instance, the cotton ball challenge doesn’t necessarily have to be cotton balls. Have a beauty channel? Try scooping beauty supplies instead.

If you have a music channel, you could choose to only do musical instruments for a guess the sound challenge or whisper famous artists or songs for a whisper challenge.

And for a no thumbs challenge? This might be kind of tricky (and fun for your viewers!) if you’re a fitness YouTuber and need to film your routines.

Challenge videos are supposed to be creative and fun, so play with the ideas a bit to see how you can make them fit for you and your audience.

While most challenge videos are purely harmless fun, some have the potential to cause some damage—emotionally or physically.

Just because a challenge is trending doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea, so do a little research to make sure that you can perform the challenges as safely as possible.

You also might consider putting a warning or disclaimer in your video if a challenge you are doing has some potentially negative side effects.

Trends come and go, but the most popular challenge YouTube videos right now seem to be (in no particular order):

• Chubby Bunny Challenge
• Try Not to Laugh Challenges (Innuendo Bingo Challenge)
• Not My Arms Challenge
• Ghost Pepper Challenge
• BeanBoozled Challenge
• Whisper Challenge
• No Mirror Makeup Challenge

Some successful YouTube channels that are popular for their challenges include:

YouTube challenge videos are a great way to add some fun and humor to your channel. They are also a great way to mix things up if you feel like you’re running low on video ideas.