Basketball World Records

Brendan Kelbie spun a basketball on the tip of a pencil held in his mouth for 50.07 seconds.

Brendan Kelbie spun a basketball on a pen held in his shoe for 13.31 seconds while balancing a spoon on his nose.

Brendan Kelbie spun a basketball on a clothespin held in his mouth for 18.06 seconds.

Vito O. bounced a basketball on a tee-ball bat 114 times.

Chii Zen bounced a basketball 250 times in one minute while balancing barefoot on a rola bola at home in Tainan, Taiwan. A rola bola is a board set across a free-rolling cylinder, so every low, quick dribble beside it has to happen while keeping the board level underfoot. The attempt was filmed in one continuous take, and RecordSetter counted the bounces from the footage and the sound of each ball strike. That works out to roughly four bounces a second without a single lost ball.

Chii Zen bounced two basketballs at once 187 times in one minute while balancing barefoot on a rola bola at home in Tainan, Taiwan. With one ball in each hand, both balls strike the floor together on every bounce while the board rocks on its free-rolling cylinder underfoot. RecordSetter counted the paired bounces from the continuous video and the sound of each strike, and the best 60 seconds of the attempt held exactly 187. It is the two-ball companion to Chii Zen's one-ball rola bola record.

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.

Luis Phillip dribbled two basketballs simultaneously for seven minutes, 5.00 seconds while going up and down a staircase.

Luis Phillip completed 13 consecutive spinning double basketball clang swaps in one minute.

Usman Mir spun a basketball on a drum stick for six hours, 25 minutes, 19.56 seconds.

Luis Phillip spun an exercise ball and a basketball simultaneously on his index fingers for 2.07 seconds.

Luis Phillip dribbled two basketballs simultaneously using water guns for three minutes, 1.23 seconds.

Luis Phillip performed figure 8 dribbles using two basketballs for one minute, 25.00 seconds while standing on two skateboards.

Luis Phillip completed 17 consecutive double basketball pedestal dribbling circles.

Luis Phillip completed nine consecutive figure eight loops dribbling two basketballs using water guns.

Kyle Fitzwater made 19 consecutive free throws while sitting in a wheelchair.