Fastest Time to Sort 20 Pencils by Color

China

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Beihu-Chenzhou-Hunan, SAR, China / October 19, 2026

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, sorted 20 mixed-up pencils into four color groups in 20.84 seconds. Filmed from above at a desk, Yanhao shuffles five each of yellow, white, teal and orange pencils into one jumbled pile, starts a phone stopwatch, then plucks them apart by hand into four flat rows, none stacked, and stops the clock at 00:20.84. RecordSetter read the stopwatch on camera and timed the gap between the two taps on the video to confirm the result. A pencil case has never looked so tidy.

Tags: speed, pencil, color, sorting, stationery

Rules

- Use 20 pencils of the same model: four clearly different colors, five pencils of each color
- Mix all 20 pencils together on camera before the attempt so no color group is left together
- Hands must be off the pencils when the stopwatch starts
- Sort by hand only; one or both hands may be used, with no tools or containers
- At the finish, each color forms its own group of five lying flat on the table, with no pencil stacked on another
- A stopwatch is started and stopped on camera, with the last pencil in place before the stop
- Show the sorted groups to the camera after the stop so every pencil and color can be checked
- Must be one continuous, unedited video showing the pencils and the stopwatch
- Must follow form of current world record holder
- Must provide video evidence
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