Basketball World Records

Scott Erickson of Man Vs. Internet made a successful basketball shot from inside a helicopter hovering at 192 feet.

Gurrshan Singh performed a trick shot over a ceiling fan 13 feet in height using a mini basketball.

Lucas Buchanan from Hot Springs scored 454 points in one endless-mode game of Flappy Dunk, the Voodoo mobile game where you tap to flap a winged basketball through a string of hoops. The unedited screen recording starts on the game menu and runs through the whole game, ending when the ball clips a spiked hoop and the game-over screen reads 454, with the revive offer left untaken. A ten-second rocket boost and a long run of clean swishes, with the bonus climbing to Legendary x28, piled up most of the points.

Shawn Seeley scored 126 points in Skeet Shooting mode on his home Pop-A-Shot machine in Gillett, Pennsylvania, sinking a basket within three seconds of the announcer's "Shoot" call for 63 rounds in a row. Skeet Shooting is one of the game modes built into Pop-A-Shot's home arcade basketball machines: each basket is worth 2 points, and the game ends the moment a three-second window passes without a basket. The score was verified from one continuous video that keeps the hoop and the machine's scoreboard in view from the 3-2-1 countdown at zero all the way to 126. His phone stopped recording before the game ended, so 126 is the number the footage proves, and the number the next sharpshooter has to beat.

Mike Slonina made 5,930 successful shots in 24 hours from multiple places on the basketball court, sinking 73.2% of his total throws successfully. He set the record to raise funds for his mother and Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. Mike currently runs an organization called A Shot For Life, Inc. which raises money for brain cancer research. Read more about the feat here.

Ernesto Diaz has 900 Michael Jordan basketball cards in his collection.

Ethan Brehm has 83 Shareef Abdur-Rahim basketball cards in his collection.

The West Coast Hotshots won by a margin of 75 points against the Phoenix Raptors in an IBL pro basketball game. See the entire game here.

15 people competedin a Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament held during the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship.

Joseph S. made a successful granny shot from 37 feet away while dressed like a granny.

Gregory and participants at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac in Lenox, Massachusetts held a basketball game marathon. The game lasted for 36 hours and 28 minutes.

Adam L. punted a basketball into a basketball next from 150 feet away.

Bill Berry swallowed a 24-inch sword, set a basketball spinning on the pommel, and let it ride hands-free for 5.5 seconds. Berry is building a collection of sword swallowing combination records that nobody asked for and everyone needs to see.

David Crawford successfully banked a basketball shot off wall 42 feet away from the basket. See a diagram of basketball court and dimensions here.

Vito O. made a successful basketball blind shot from 25 feet away while juggling three basketballs in a cascade pattern.

Nolan made a successful basketball bounce shot from 23.5 feet away while riding a unicycle.