Fingers World Records

Yanhao Deng and Pinjie He of Chenzhou, Hunan, held a stack of 34 round crackers in midair between two fingertips, one from each of them. After showing the stack to the camera in their classroom, they turn it on its side and press it end to end between their index fingers, and a free hand waves above it for about two seconds to show nothing else is holding it up. RecordSetter checked the count of 34 against the ridged edges of the stack in the opening close-up. Thirty-four crackers, two people, one finger each.

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

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 of Suwon, South Korea drummed two fingers on the lap button of an Android tablet's stopwatch for five seconds and logged 52 laps. Filmed from above his desk in one continuous take, the video starts with the stopwatch at zero, and the stopwatch's own time-stamped lap list puts lap 52 at 4.98 seconds, with lap 53 just past the cutoff at 5.10. That works out to more than ten presses a second, a flat-out sprint from the very first tap.

Antonio Shin of Suwon, South Korea kept two fingers drumming on the lap button of an Android tablet's stopwatch for a full minute and logged 577 laps. Filmed from above his desk in one continuous take, the video starts with the stopwatch at zero, and the stopwatch's own time-stamped lap list puts lap 577 at 59.97 seconds, with lap 578 just past the cutoff at 1:00.08. That is close to 10 presses a second, held for 60 seconds straight.

Antonio Shin of Suwon, South Korea drummed two fingers on the lap button of an Android tablet's stopwatch for 30 seconds and logged 282 laps. Filmed from above his desk in one continuous take, the video starts with the stopwatch at zero, and the stopwatch's own time-stamped lap list puts lap 282 at 29.94 seconds, with lap 283 just past the cutoff at 30.04. That is more than nine presses a second, kept up for half a minute.

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.