Choosing the right guitar pick is a serious business. There’s grip, thickness, durability, how cool it looks… And then there’s the single most important criterion of all:

How likely are you to lose it within a week?

According to highly questionable Guitar Fail statistics, the answer is: Very.

But look on the bright side. An 80% chance of losing a pick probably means an 80% chance of finding one again later ; usually in the laundry or inside the couch.

Yes… It will always be somewhere so obvious you’ll feel personally insulted by it.


From the archives

This one first appeared on Guitar Fail’s social feeds (on November 28, 2023) before being rescued, rebuilt and given the full Guitar Fail Data Lab treatment. The original joke survived. The statistics did not improve.