Basketball World Records

Suresh Gaur balanced a basketball on top of a flashlight on his thumb for 11 minutes, 43.55 seconds.

Brendan Kelbie spun a basketball on a pen held in his shoe for 18.16 seconds while balancing a camera tripod on his forehead.

Brayden Weiss spun a basketball on his finger for 20.33 seconds while standing on a hoverboard.

Shawn Seeley finished in the top 10 of Pop-A-Shot's monthly leaderboard for 19 months in a row, from April 2025 through October 2026. Pop-A-Shot, the arcade basketball game invented in 1981, ranks the best Game Mode 1 scores that people playing on its home models submit on video each month. Shawn's screen recording shows the October 2026 board with him at No. 4 with 244 points, and RecordSetter matched that placement against the standings Pop-A-Shot publishes on its website, as it did for the 18 months before. Miss a month or slip out of the top 10 and the count starts over, which makes 19 straight a long run of steady shooting.

Pavol Durdik stacked 62 plastic clothespin on a basketball.

Brendan Kelbie spun a basketball on a pen held in his shoe for 15.68 seconds while balancing a wooden chair on his chin.

Brendan Kelbie spun a basketball on a mouthstick held in his mouth for one minute, 3.01 seconds.

Brendan Kelbie completed 74 catches juggling three balls in reverse cascade pattern while spinning a mini basketball on a pen held in his shoe.

Chris Kuchar made 11 consecutive half-court basketball shots at a gym in Washington, Utah. Shooting from behind the half-court line in a single unedited take, he sank shot after shot while his son rebounded and fed the ball back to him. Half-court shots are the long-range heaves usually reserved for buzzer-beaters, so stringing 11 together without a miss is a serious display of range and consistency.

Chris Kuchar made 11 consecutive half-court basketball shots at a gym in Washington, Utah. Shooting from behind the half-court line in a single unedited take, he sank shot after shot while his son rebounded and fed the ball back to him. Half-court shots are the long-range heaves usually reserved for buzzer-beaters, so stringing 11 together without a miss is a serious display of range and consistency.

Alan Morris from Mildura Men's Basketball team played in a continuous basketball game marathon against another Mildura basketball team for 50 hours. The game began on April 20, 1972 and finished on April 25, 1972. Learn more about the feat here.

Luis Phillip spun two basketballs on his index fingers with his eyes closed for 5.75 seconds while playing a tune on a harmonica.

After watching videos of people sinking a basketball through 3, then 5 stacked mini hoops, 15-year-old Zack Weinberger decided to blow past the bar entirely. He lined up 17 mini basketball hoops in his living room, stepped back 10 feet, and threaded a single shot through every one of them. No edits, no tricks, just a kid with a vision and a very patient family.

Luis Phillip performed a standing side flip from 0.5 meter away over a person while spinning two basketballs on his fingers.

Simone Miserotti turned a tabletop mini-hoop into a rhythm exercise, dropping 783 miniature basketball shots in a row without a miss. The video is delightfully hypnotic: same release, same bounce of focus, one tiny make after another until the count runs deep into Guinness-beating territory.

Brendan Kelbie balanced a shovel on a basketball held in his hand for 59.11 seconds.