Guinness World Records Dropped Its Weekly Roundup, These Are The Best Records From This Week
This week's Guinness World Records roundup is an absolute joy. A family from Ohio made history at Otterbein Stadium when 5-year-old Axel Luchsinger and his parents sent a rainbow Slinky down 53 stairs, beating the previous record by 23 and claiming the title for most stairs descended by a Slinky. "Our son Axel is at the age where everything needs to be the biggest, fastest, or most extreme version of itself," said his dad Joe. A young American named Cooper claimed most pogo stick jumps in one minute with an unbelievable 190 jumps — 20 more than the previous record — after five years of obsession with the Christmas gift that started it all. Someone typed the entire alphabet faster than anyone in history using only chopsticks. Another held a plank with 200 pounds on their back longer than any human before them. A competitor crushed cans with an elbow at a pace that defied reason. And earlier this year in Las Vegas, Pyrotecnico set the record for the largest daytime fireworks display ever — a 600-foot-wide formation integrating drone technology and pyrotechnic smoke at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Also among this week's newly confirmed titles: most sit-down football crossovers in one minute, most hula hoops spun while suspended upside down, the largest remote-controlled RC vehicle, the largest display of origami dogs, and the longest duration spinning a fidget spinner on one finger. The records this week span five continents, every age group, and every conceivable skill set — from elite athletics to paper folding to childhood toys. That is the magic of Guinness World Records. Somewhere right now, someone is quietly getting very, very good atsomething nobody else has ever thought to measure.
