One man and his ball.

A social media user has admitted he has spent 32 years working on his hobby – building one of the largest rubber band balls in the world.

Reddit user and sports writer Zack Hample, 35, took to social media to confirm that he had been building the ball since the age of three, and is still working on the huge ball. He posted a photo of the ball, along with two bunches of bananas and a laptop in order to show the scale of the ball, along with the comment: “32 years in the making. Started with just one and, yes, it would bounce if I could lift it.”

The rubber band ball weighs almost the same as two people – around 253lbs – and Mr Hample has said that he has spent almost £920 building it. However, despite his efforts, he has yet to steal the title of the world’s largest rubber band ball, which still belongs to Joel Waul who claimed the title in 2008, according to Guinness World Records.

The ball belonging to Mr Waul weighed more than 9,000lbs and was seven feet tall. He created it from over 700,000 rubber bands and it is now displayed for the public to see at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum.

You can view a video of Zack and his pride and joy here.