This instant bowling legend rolled a perfect game in only 86.9 seconds

Not bad. Not bad at all.
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Keith Wagstaff
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This instant bowling legend rolled a perfect game in only 86.9 seconds
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It's the dream of bowlers around the world: the perfect game.

At a bowling alley in Cortland, New York, Ben Ketola realized that dream ... in 86.9 seconds.

The 23-year-old ran across 10 lanes, quickly hucking balls with a strange, two-handed motion, until he reached the end of the bowling alley, and ran back to the beginning to get his final two strikes.

"It was fun to do. I honestly wasn't expecting to do it," Ketola told Syracuse.com. "I just wanted to see how quickly I could get across the house and get strikes."

Ketola is pretty good--he averages 225--but this puts him on a whole new level. It's pretty safe to assume everyone's going to want him on their bowling team.

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Keith Wagstaff

Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.


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