‘I can do it!’: Three-year-old Sofya Dickson scales doorframe, becomes YouTube star

Sofya Dickson, 3, is YouTube's latest star, thanks to her Spider-Man-like doorframe-scaling skills.

Sofya's father, Peter, captured her climbing up the doorframe in the kitchen of their Leicestershire, UK home, chanting "I can do it" as she climbed. He posted the video on YouTube so his sister in Oxford could watch her niece's antics.

"I took the film on my smart phone about a week ago," Peter told the Daily Mail. "Later the same day I mentioned it while chatting on the phone to my sister. She told me to put it on YouTube so she could see it. I had never put anything on YouTube before."

Peter insists the climbing was Sofya's idea.

"Sofya taught herself to climb the door frame," he said. "She said she did it to be as tall as mummy and daddy but I suspect another reason was to try and reach the sweets which we hide on top of the fridge!"

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The smart little girl even piled pillows beneath her, anticipating a tumbling finish.

"I like climbing trees and that's how I learned it and I can now climb all the way up and slide down as well," Sofya told This is Leicestershire.

"I like it because I never did it when I was a baby and now I can. It's not scary. It only hurts when I fall if I don't put cushions down."

Peter and his wife, Saziye, are also parents to 9-month-old twin boys. They have decided to use the proceeds of the gone-viral footage to raise money for the charity Save the Children.

"I think my daughter is too young to realise she is a world-wide sensation," Peter said. "When I tried to explain it to Sofya her main concern was would her friends at nursery be able to watch it."

Commenters on YouTube have suggested the Dicksons' nurture their little climber's talent:

"I had a lot of comments saying you should take her to the local rock climbing centre, so I might give them a call and see if they would let a three-year-old through the door," Peter told the BBC.

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