Fingers World Records

152 campers fromCamp Ronald McDonaldformed a line and gave the people next to them a finger mustache while giving a “thumbs up” sign at the same time.

Brian Pankey completed seven cobra cuts in one minute.

Emma S. twisted all her fingers over one another in 2.80 seconds.

Cracka Dawn pushed the limits of open mouthdom by fitting parts of 30 fingers into her mouth at once. The record was set on Friday, August 29, 2008 at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. Yasuyuki Tsumashika, an Executive Committee member from the Playa Book of Records, videotaped and witnessed the feat. #BM2008

Mark Evans balanced a tennis ball on top of a wooden bar with his two fingers for 22 minutes, 37.53 seconds.

Putting potential concern for his life aside, Vince Veneziani made history by throwing 13 different gang signs in one minute, a new world record. Signs thrown included “Blood”, “Crips”, and “Mafia”. The feat was achieved at a World Record Appreciation Society event in New York City on February 11, 2009. Dan Rollman was on hand to document and count the signs. Though dressed in blue from head to toe, Veneziani swears he has no gang allegiances. #WRAS03

Brian Pankey completed 16 coin rolls in one minute using a coin 3" in diameter.

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This record was set as part of Toyota 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.

Student campers from iD Tech Camps Trinity University snapped their fingers sequentially 48 times in 30 seconds. [#iDTech][]

Brian Pankey completed 108 finger folds in 30 seconds.

Sparks displays tremendous agility and creativity by using just her hands to create seven distinctly different animal characters. The record was set on August 30, 2008 at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. Dan Rollman witnessed and videotaped the attempt. #BM2008

Fourteen-year-old Piyush Rawat sets up in a wide-stance plank on a dirt yard, plants two fingertips of one hand, and tucks his free hand behind his back. He lowers until his chest nearly brushes the ground and presses back to a straight arm seven times without a break. Each rep was counted from his continuous phone video. Seven reps on two fingertips is a serious grip test at any age.

Antonio Shin, a 12-year-old from Suwon, South Korea, drummed two fingers on the lap button of an Android tablet's stopwatch and logged 172 laps in 15 seconds. The video starts with the stopwatch at zero and shows lap 172 recorded at 14.89 seconds, with the next lap landing just after the 15-second mark at 15.08. The stopwatch's own time-stamped lap list does the counting, so every press can be checked on screen. That is better than 11 taps a second.

Antonio Shin, a 12-year-old from Suwon, South Korea, drummed two fingers on the lap button of an Android tablet's stopwatch and logged 115 laps in 10 seconds. Filmed from above his desk, the video opens with the stopwatch at zero and shows lap 115 landing at 9.96 seconds, with lap 116 just past the cutoff at 10.04. The stopwatch's own time-stamped lap list does the counting, so every press can be checked on screen. That pace is better than 11 taps a second.

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, held 30 pencils wedged between the index and middle fingers of one hand, with the thumb spread well clear of the bundle. In one unedited phone clip filmed in a bedroom, Yanhao packs the round bundle of orange, yellow, white and teal pencils into the gap between two fingers, takes the other hand away, and turns the open palm to the camera so the flat pencil ends face the lens. RecordSetter counted the pencil ends in that end-on view, and the bundle is consistent with the claimed 30. That is most of a pencil case parked in one finger gap.