Fingers World Records

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.

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

Akula Ganga Hema Sathvik typed the English alphabet in 2.378 seconds using only two fingers, sitting cross-legged with a laptop in Guntur, India. The over-the-shoulder clip is one continuous five-second take: the remaining fingers hover above the keyboard while two fingers peck out A to Z on Type The Alphabet, an online typing game whose timer starts with the first keystroke. The on-screen clock runs in step with the video and stops on a personal-best screen reading 2.378s. Two fingers, twenty-six letters, and the clock barely got going.

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.

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

Brian Pankey completed 108 finger folds in 30 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

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 seven cobra cuts in one minute.

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

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, held a bundle of 7 orange pencils lengthwise between the tips of two index fingers, one on each end, with the rest of both hands curled clear. In one unedited phone clip filmed in a bedroom, Yanhao first turns the bundle end-on to the camera so all seven pencil ends show, then pinches it between the two fingertips and keeps it level for more than three seconds before the first pencil slips loose. RecordSetter counted the pencil ends in that opening view and checked the hold frame by frame. Two fingertips, seven pencils, nothing else touching.

Yanhao Deng and Jingxiang Lei of Chenzhou, Hunan, held a bundle of 7 yellow pencils lengthwise between two thumbtips, one from each of them. In one continuous phone clip filmed in their classroom, Yanhao first turns the bundle end-on to the camera so all seven pencil ends show, then the pair press it end to end between their thumbs and keep it level for more than three seconds while the camera swings over to Jingxiang. RecordSetter counted the pencil ends in that opening view and checked frame by frame that only the two thumbs touch the bundle during the hold. Two people, two thumbs, and not a pencil out of line.

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.