Some stickers peel off nice and easy, and you'd never know they were there. Others leave a ton of sticky, gluey gunk behind that's hard to get off. We tested a few different household solvents to see which cleans up glue the best.

We've heard a ton of different MacGyver solutions to sticker gunk over the years: from the household alcohol or lighter fluid to the made-for-gunk Goo Gone. We took five of the most common suggestions and tried them out: rubbing alcohol, WD-40, lighter fluid, cooking oil, and Goo Gone to find out what worked best. Check out the video above to see them all in action.

Surprisingly, the rubbing alcohol was far and away the best we tried. It gets rid of that gunk blazingly fast, and dries up quickly leaving your surface smooth and shiny. (Other types of alcohol, like vodka, should work pretty well too.) The lighter fluid was the worst, though we expect it's because Ronsonol lighter fluid—the most commonly recommended—no longer contains naphtha, the solvent that made it so effective (Update: This is true, Ronsonol doesn't contain naphtha, but we also got the wrong kind of lighter fuel, which is the real source of the problem). Goo Gone worked well, but left behind some oily residue that made it not quite as nice as the rubbing alcohol.

All except the lighter fluid worked, though, and if you have the right kind, it should still work. So if you're caught in a bind any of them should do the trick—but given a choice, we'd choose the alcohol every time.

Music by M-PeX.