Want to Break a World Record? Guinness Says These 70 Haven’t Been Attempted
Ever wanted to break a world record? Guinness just made it a little easier to find one that YOU SPECIFICALLY might be able to beat.
Guinness World Records just turned 70. The first “Guinness Book of World Records” came out on August 27th, 1955. And to celebrate, they shared a list of 70 records no one’s attempted yet, so the bar is still low.
They added a section to their site called Record Selector that’s supposed to tell you which ones you’d have the best chance at. You answer five personality questions, and it spits out a few records you might want to attempt.
The 70 new Guinness World Records titles
- Farthest distance bottle flip
- Farthest distance by leapfrog jumps in one hour (team)
- Farthest distance football (soccer) volley crossbar hit
- Farthest distance swimming in 24 hours (team)
- Farthest distance to bounce a coin into a cup
- Farthest standing jump forwards (female)
- Fastest 10 km three legged (mixed)
- Fastest 10 m holding a balloon between the knees
- Fastest 400 m wearing swim fins (male)
- Fastest 400m sack race
- Fastest 4×100 m egg and spoon relay race
- Fastest hole of golf by a team of two (male)
- Fastest relay 50 x 50 m (mixed)
- Fastest time to arrange a set of Scrabble tiles in alphabetical order
- Fastest time to blow a stamp 10 m
- Fastest time to build a castle in Minecraft survival mode with a mouse and keyboard
- Fastest time to build a five storey playing card pyramid
- Fastest time to clear a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos (team of two)
- Fastest time to flip a tyre over 50 m
- Fastest time to flip ten water bottles
- Fastest time to ice/frost 100 cupcakes (individual)
- Fastest time to make a burrito
- Fastest time to make a loom band bracelet
- Fastest time to make a pasta necklace (Under 16s)
- Fastest time to push an orange 100 m with the nose
- Greatest height to drop an egg without breaking
- Greatest height to flip a bottle
- Highest coin toss
- Longest duration to balance a spoon on the nose
- Longest duration to keep a balloon in the air with the feet
- Longest duration to keep five balloons in the air
- Longest duration to keep five balloons in the air (team of two)
- Longest marathon playing air guitar
- Longest paperclip chain in one minute
- Longest paperclip chain in three minutes
- Longest time in a straight arm abdominal plank position (female)
- Longest time to hold the bridge pose (yoga)
- Longest videogame marathon playing Roblox
- Most alternate forehand/backhand hits with a tennis racket against a wall in 30 seconds
- Most anchovies eaten in one minute
- Most balloons blown up in one minute (Under 16s)
- Most cinemas visited in one month
- Most coffeehouses visited in one month
- Most coins balanced and snatched off the elbow (no drops)
- Most crown cap bottles opened with one hand in one minute
- Most drink cans crushed with feet in one minute (female)
- Most drink cans crushed with feet in one minute (male)
- Most eggs cracked in 30 seconds with one hand (team of two)
- Most eggs stacked in one minute
- Most fortune cookies eaten in one minute
- Most hair elastics (bobbles) in a persons hair in one minute
- Most headbands/sweatbands worn at once
- Most high fives in 30 seconds
- Most kisses in 30 seconds by a pair
- Most leapfrog jumps in one hour by a team of two
- Most leapfrog jumps in one minute by a team of two (Under 16s)
- Most origami cranes made in three minutes (Under 16s)
- Most seat drops on a trampoline in one hour
- Most shoelaces tied in a bow in one minute (team of two)
- Most stackable potato based crisps eaten in one minute
- Most table tennis balls held in one hand
- Most treats balanced on a dog’s nose in 30 seconds
- Most T-shirts put on in 30 seconds (individual)
- Most T-shirts put on in one minute (individual)
- Most water moved by the hands in 30 seconds
- Most water moved using a sponge in one minute (team of two)
- Most whoopee cushions sat on in one minute by a team of two
- Tallest stack of dice in one minute (team of two)
- Tallest stack of Guinness World Records books in 30 seconds (individual)
- Fastest time to ascend the height of Everest by bicycle
