Apparently quickest 100 meters or most consecutive backflips are too boring for some people. So they go above and beyond to create some really weird sport records.
1. Creative pumpkin carving while scuba diving
Yeah, you heard it right! Imagine carving a jack-o’-lantern while trying not to drown and fighting to keep the hollow pumpkin from floating away. Key Largo, Florida is home to this wacky contest so go check it out if you’re the creative type.
2. Longest time with live ferrets in your pants
People actually compete to see how long they can keep a live ferret in their trousers! The name of the competition: ferret-legging, of course. The record stands at a nutty 5 hours and 30 minutes. Ouch!
3. Fastest speed on a modified lawn mower
4. Most worms charmed to the surface in 30 minutes
5. Most wins in the Toe Wrestling World Championships
Step aside, arm wrestling. This sport involves locking toes and trying to pin your opponent’s foot. Alan “Nasty” Nash took home the title 17 times!
6. Fastest wife carrying race
This sport involves carrying your spouse through a challenging obstacle course spanning 0.15 miles. The record time for the race? A swift 55.5 seconds by an Estonian couple.
7. Longest mobile phone throw
Fed up with your smartphone? In this sport, you can unleash your frustration by hurling your phone as far as possible. The record throw covered a whopping 362.3 ft (110.3m)!
8. Highest altitude ironing
For those who can’t bear to neglect their chores, this involves ironing clothes in the most absurd places, like the top of Mount Everest. The highest recorded ironing session reached an altitude of 17,850 ft (5,440 meters) above sea level.
9. Most hamburgers eaten in three minutes
These folks are the real “burger kings.” The record stands at a staggering 12 hamburgers devoured in just three minutes by the gourmand Takeru Kobayashi.
10. Most dogs riding a single surfboard
Who says surfing is just for humans? The record is 18 skilled canine surfers catching waves on one oversized board.
11. Longest cherry pit spit
Pucker up and let it fly! The record spit traveled an astonishing 93 feet and 6.5 inches (28.51m)!
12. Fastest time in the Knaresborough Bed Race
In this sport, teams race down the streets on beds with wheels. The fastest recorded time is 12 min 9 sec for the 2.04 miles (3.27 km ) course.
13. Most wins in the downhill cheese race
On a steep hill in England, people chase a wheel of cheese, and the first one to cross the finish line wins. Chris Anderson holds the most wins, an insane 23 times.
14. Fastest 100 meters sprint in high heels
Christian Roberto Lopez Rodriguez, a Spanish man with a thrill for the heel, ran a 0.0621371 mile (100-meter) sprint while wearing high heels in just 12.82 seconds.
15. Most Rubik’s cubes solved on a skateboard
George Scholey, a British skateboarder and Rubik freak solved 500 cubes in just 40 minutes. We would have had trouble keeping our balance for the whole 40 minutes, let alone solving a Rubik’s cube in the process.
16. Most records hold by one person
We just had to have this category as well. Ashrita Furman (USA) is your guy; he has set more than 700 official Guinness Records since 1979, currently holding more than 200 standing records.
17. Fastest 100 meter hurdles wearing swim fins
Another head scratcher! Christopher Irmscher established a world record with his time, 14.82. It appears no one was able to break his record for the last 15 years.
18. Most rotations hanging from a power drill
As insane as this may sound, the record stands at 148 rotations in a minute. We’re impressed the ceiling stood the test, this was quite the hurdle.
19. Most t-shirts undressed while bouncing a soccer ball on the head
Marcelo Ribeiro da Silva from Brazil went up to 22 tshirts which is a testament to his balancing abilities and patience, this required quite a bit of practice.
20. Longest swim wearing handcuffs
A record of 7.238 miles (11.649 km) was established by Shehab Allam from Egypt. Not only that, he also managed to be the first man to swim the Dubai canal at the same time.
21. Fastest 100m running on all fours
Kenichi Ito (Japan) attempted to establish a record while running on all fours and it seems he got his way, pinning down the record at 15.71 seconds on November 6, 2015.
22. Longest time spinning a basketball on his guitar
Bernie Boehm is the record holder here. He rotated a basketball on his guitar for 32.46 seconds, on 29 July 2021 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
They dared, they practiced, and they finally got their name etched into the Guinness World Records stats.
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Origin of the Guinness World Records
The whole idea was born when Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, got into an argument about the fastest game bird in Europe during a hunting trip in the 1950s. He realized there was no reference book to settle this kind of bar debates, and voila, Guinness World Records was conceived.
