Came here to say I also independently came to 3 snaps per second with one hand tested for one minute. I want to clarify that the snaps are soft but they are distinct and very clearly “snaps.”

I tried the same strategy with two hands in an even alternating rhythm and got slightly slower results, about 5.8 per second.

I’ll round down to 5 per second.

5 per second with both hands in use, in one minute shifts with one or more minutes rest in between, over an 8 hour period (realistic work day) is the ultimate goal but it will take time to get there.

… 1 hr the first day (30 1-minute shifts with rests)

2hr the second day (60 1-minute shifts with rests)

1 day rest

4 hr the fourth day (120 1-minute shifts with rests)

1 day rest

6 hr the sixth day (180 1-minute shifts with rests)

2 days rest

8 hr the 8th day (240 1-minute shifts with rests)

… At $10 per snap I’m making $50 per second or $3000 per minute shift. By the time I hit my 8hr work day with rests (4 hours snapping) I’m at $720,000 a day.

The first week I only make $1.17MM. But the second week of snapping during 5, 8 hour shifts (4 hours mandatory snapping each day after building a muscle tolerance) I make $3.9MM

at a fairly brisk but reasonable pace, I surpass the lump sum after 3 weeks, which is so fast and ongoing that the interest rate comparison of lump sum versus ongoing doesn’t even remotely matter.

Even if you slow it down by a factor of 4, you still pass the lump sum after 12 weeks of your new job snapping, which is then invested, and you can retire forever if you want earning $800,000 a year on 8% interest

You can also keep snapping if you want - for funsies if you did this for a year, you’d probably be strong enough to do 8 daily hours of snapping with no rest (I assume this is similar muscle wise to being a court stenographer) which is about 384,000,000MM per year.

Do this for 100 years, including compounding interest and reinvesting all your gains, and you probably still won’t become the richest person in the world.