Basketball World Records

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Standing barefoot on a red rola bola in a wood-paneled room in Tainan, Taiwan, Chii Zen swings a basketball around his waist, passing it from hand to hand behind his back while the board rocks on its roller. The clip is one continuous take, and RecordSetter counted 40 complete laps of the ball within 30 seconds, frame by frame from his first circle. He keeps the ball moving and both feet on the board the whole way through.

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.

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.

Chuck Butler rollerbladed around a tennis court in Perdido Key, Florida while continuously dribbling a basketball, completing the circuit in 16.49 seconds. The attempt combines skating control with a classic basketball-handling constraint: no carrying, palming, or double dribbling, just clean forward motion around the court.

Amari Maybin made a three-point shot during a youth basketball game in Lanham, Maryland, on March 21, 2026, at 4 years and 9 months old. The video follows the play up the court and shows the long shot dropping through the net as the referee signals a three. Amari's date of birth was confirmed with a league player card. Plenty of grown-ups are still waiting on their first one.

Bill Berry sank a basketball shot from 20 feet away while swallowing a sword, with the ball bouncing off a brick wall before going through the hoop. Filmed in a driveway with collaborator Legendary Shots, Berry stood with a blade down his throat while the trick shot arced off the wall and dropped clean through the net.

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.

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.

Michael Qualls made 18 consecutive baskets while continuously juggling three basketballs in Jacksboro, Texas. Qualls learned to juggle from his high-school Government & Economics teacher in Merkel, Texas and now passes it on to his own math students—taking it “to the next level” by combining three-ball juggling with uninterrupted shot-making.

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