Sometimes things go according to plan, which is great. Other times we fail miserably, but that’s okay, too. And then there are the rare cases when we fail successfully, typically not even knowing how, and often resulting in some rather comical situations.

Plenty of such instances are shared on the ‘Task Fail Successfully’ reddit community, which proves that not everything in life is as black and white as failing and succeeding. Scroll down to find some bizarre cases of these gray areas and enjoy a good giggle; or confusion.

#1 She Spittin Straight Fax!

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#2 I Guess I’ll Give It Another Try

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#3 Failed Successfully: Cheating

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#4 Man Buys A Car With Cigarette Money Then Dies

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#5 Good Enough For Me

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#6 Well Yes But Actually No

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#7 Successfail Race

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#8 Double Trouble

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#9 Somewhere In Japan, Someone’s Sprayer Got Broke Along The Handle

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#10 Our Smoke Detector Caught Fire

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#11 But The Sign On The Wall Said

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#12 Puzzle

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#13 Went To Mcdonald’s And Ordered A Cheeseburger With Ketchup Only.. Well I Guess I Got What I Ordered

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#14 Yes

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#15 Went Axe Throwing In Our Yard And Yeah…

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#16 After Accepting A Gift On Steam, Thanks For The Useful Information!

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#17 I Guess That’s A Win

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#18 Saw This Rather Attractive Window Display In London Today

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#19 An Interesting Title

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#20 Gay Task Failed Succesfully

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#21 My Bank Sent Me 28 Letters In The Mail To Inform Me I Have Opted Out Of Receiving Paper Statements

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#22 Another One

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#23 Battle Of The Sign Successfails

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#24 Successfail Pretender

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#25 Task Failed Successfully? (Found This On Youtube)

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#26 Different Kind Of Date

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#27 Light Connection

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#28 My Fly Catcher Caught A Fly On The Non Sticky Part

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#29 Walked Into The Kitchen To Find This Monstrosity

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#30 Me Irl

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#31 Umm

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#32 It Works I Guess

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#33 Does This Count?

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#34 Technically It Sort Of Did Its Job

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#35 My Jar Of Salsa Broke Rather Practically

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#36 Successfail Hookup

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#37 Does This Go Here Lol

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#38 Can You Spot The Difference?

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#39 Installation Failed Successfully

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#40 Soda Failed Successfully

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#41 My Bad

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#42 Pretzels

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#43 I Think This Belongs Here. It Failed And Span 180° On The Bed But Continued To Print, Successfully?

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#44 Mee6 Successfully Banned Mee6

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#45 Task Failed Successfully

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#46 Bruh

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#47 Failed To Start Because Of The Following Error: The Operation Completed Successfully

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#48 Ai Forgot How Motorcycles Work But The Details Are Immaculate

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#49 Ice-Skating!

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#50 Litteraly The ‘Sent’ Mark Over The Top Of The ‘Not Sent’ Mark

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#51 Did I Hit It Right?

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#52 My GF Tried To Catch A Moth. It Was Easier Than Expected

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#53 Can’t Use One Or More Drives Completed Successfully

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#54 Okay Nintendo

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#55 There’s Always A Funny One

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#56 We Were Talking About Running

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#57 Lock Picking Failed Successfully

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#58 Well I Dont Know

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#59 Steam Successfully Failed

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#60 Thanks Adobe

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#61 Getting Vitamin C

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#62 Bugs Not Fixed Successfully

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