QWOP

QWOP is a flash game created by Bennett Foddy and released on the Internet in 2008 to his website called "Foddy.net". Players play as an athlete named "Qwop", who is participating in a 100-meter sprint event at the Olympic Games. Using only the Q, W, O and P keys, players must control the movement of the legs to make the character move forward.^[2] When the player has successfully reached 50 meters they must jump a hurdle, and at 100 meters the player is encouraged to perform a long jump, although simply passing the finish line is sufficient to complete the game.

QWOP

Type of site	Flash game
Available in	English
Owner	Bennett Foddy
URL	http://foddy.net/Athletics.html
Commercial	No
Registration	None
Launched	November 2008 [1]
Current status	Online

The game has been criticized for being too hard to get good at.^[3] In early December 2010, the game had a viral popularity outbreak after video blogger Ray William Johnson reviewed^[4] a YouTube video^[5] that annotates the game, becoming the subject of an Internet meme.^[6][7][8] Despite this, the game helped Foddy’s site reach 30 million views.^[9] After the success of the game, Foddy created another flash game called "GIRP", which was released on his site in 2011.^[9]