Basketball World Records

549 basketball world records, videos, and challenges

Basketball world records are where players dribble, shoot, spin and dunk their way to glory, often with an added element of difficulty. (Try juggling three basketballs while balancing a fourth on your forehead and you'll get the idea.) These records don't all require varsity-level experience, though - for a less challenging task, try beating the record for Most Images of Charles Barkley on a Cookie or Most Three-Pointers Missed By Five People In One Minute.

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Records

United States

Highest Score In "Flappy Dunk" (Mobile)

Lucas Buchanan

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.

United States

Highest Score in Pop-A-Shot Skeet Shooting Mode

Shawn Seeley

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.

United States

Longest Ball Spin On A Swallowed Sword

Bill Berry

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.

United States

Farthest Basketball Shot While Sword Swallowing

Bill Berry

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.

The Internet

Fastest Time Around A Tennis Court On Rollerblades While Dribbling A Basketball

Josh Butler

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.

United States

Most Mini Basketball Hoops Scored in a Single Shot

Zack Weinberger

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.

United States

Most Consecutive Top 10 Finishes on the Pop-A-Shot At-Home Monthly Leaderboard

Shawn Seeley

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.

The Internet

Most Consecutive Half Court Basketball Shots

Chris Kuchar

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.

Italy

Most Consecutive Miniature Basketball Shots

Simone Miserotti

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.

Taiwan (Republic of China)

Most Basketball Bounces In One Minute While Balancing On A Rola Bola

Chii Zen

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.

Taiwan (Republic of China)

Most Two-Ball Basketball Bounces In One Minute While Balancing On A Rola Bola

Chii Zen

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.

Australia

Longest Time for An Individual Basketball Player To Continuously Play In A Basketball Game Marathon

Alan (Morris

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.

Australia

Most Individual Hours Played In A Basketball Game Marathon

Alan (Morris

Alan Morris from Mildura Men's Basketball team played a total of 86 hours in a basketball game marathon against another Mildura basketball team. He played 50 hours straight and another 36 hours with breaks in between. The game began on April 20, 1972 and finished on April 25, 1972. Learn more about the feat here.

England

Most Times To Perform Consecutive Double-Basketball Double-Skateboard Dribble Circles

Luis Phillip

Luis Phillip performed 15 consecutive double-basketball, double-skateboard dribble circles.

England

Longest Time Dribbling Two Basketballs Simultaneously On Two Uneven Pillars

Luis Phillip

Luis Phillip dribbled two basketballs simultaneously on two uneven pillars for nine minutes, 37.25 seconds.

England

Longest Time Spinning Two Basketballs On Index Fingers With Eyes Closed While Playing A Tune On A Harmonica

Luis Phillip

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

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