Box World Records

Giovanni Rescigno’s cardboard box parachute took 2.16 seconds to descend 15 feet, a new world record. The top of the parachute was 15 feet above ground level when timing began, and the clock stopped when the box made contact with the floor. Rescigno set the record on April 4, 2009 at the first annual Brooklyn World Record Day in Brooklyn, New York. The event was held by URDB in conjunction with Beam Camp. Dan Rollman was present as a witness. #BWRD01

Guido Balducci knocked over 44 empty paper boxes with a broom while riding a pallet jack. The wall of boxes he’d set up originally had 55 boxes. tag:RecordSetterBook01

This record was set as part of Prius Records, a two-day event streamed live on the Internet. In a 48-hour period, URDB officials adjudicated 200 Prius-related world records. This was the most records ever documented in a 48-hour window, a world record in and of itself. The event took place in Los Angeles, California on March 30th and 31st, 2011. See all the records set at the event here.

Brian Pankeyflipped 48 playing cards into a box while balancing a raw egg on the top of his non-throwing hand.

Brian Pankey caught a cigar box between two other cigar boxes using alternating hands 18 consecutive times while on a rola bola. The boxes were tossed in a rotating pattern, changing position on each throw.

David Dargay, four feet and 10 inches (58 inches) tall, fit himself into a 20 x 23 inch box.

Anna Simon, a host at Otra Movida, knocked down 48 cardboard boxes dressed as a hybrid human-cardboard battering ram.

Paul (Pabs) Melia knocked over 20 pizza boxes using a soccer ball thrown bowling style.

Doug McManaman balanced a recycling box on top of a pole on his chin for one minute, 9.13 seconds.

Doug McManaman walked 19.16 feet while balancing a recycling box on top of a pole on his chin.

Mackenzie Machak sang If You Can't Hang by Sleeping With Sirens in one minute, 3.80 seconds while running around a box. She set the record as part of the College of Lake County Social Action Club's World Record Day fundraiser for the Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center in Gurnee, Illinois. #WorldRecordDay2012

Kyle Petersen balanced nine wooden boxes on his chin for one minute, 18.52 seconds while hula hooping. The record was set at an event in the Dube Juggling showroom in New York City.

Gerald Fraas stacked 170 American pennies on an ammunition box.

Joni Karvosenoja hid himself in a box in 2.59 seconds.

Six of Clint Poore's kittens slept inside a box.

Jimmy Smith and Maria Shelton held a stack of 20 pizza boxes each, a total of 40 boxes held at once by two people. They set the record during Majors Pizza Appreciation Day in Albany, Kentucky.