Laptop World Records

Zeke S, hit 18 random keyboard keys with a V-Cube 7 while standing on one foot.

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.

Zoilo Adalia typed "hello world" in 0.81 seconds at a desk in Los Angeles, using a custom test on Monkeytype, an online typing-speed site. A phone camera set low beside the keyboard catches both hands and the monitor in one continuous two-second clip, from the first keystroke to the result screen showing 162 words per minute, 100% accuracy and all 11 characters correct. Eleven characters at 162 words per minute works out to 0.81 seconds from first keystroke to last, and a frame count of the video agrees. Blink and the programmer's favorite first line is already done.

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.

Matthew Nunnery threw a laptop computer 24.48 meters (80 feet, 4 inches).

Suresh Gaur balanced a laptop on the tip of his thumb for seven minutes, 50.66 seconds.

Brendan Kelbie balanced a laptop on top of a bowling pin balanced on his chin for 24.28 seconds while kneeling.

Zoilo Adalia hugged his laptop for two hours, 46 minutes, 20.00 seconds.

Kerry Rhodes, a safety for the New York Jets NFL football team, held eight Apple laptops at once. Rhodes held the computers for approximately 15 seconds.

Zoilo Adalia closed a laptop 71 times in one minute.