Pencil World Records

Kevin LaForest did a chair spin while holding a pencil with his upper lip for 28 minutes, 13.95 seconds. Stride’s setting 100 records in 100 days. At the end of 100 days, we’ll verify if you are the standing Record Holder. If you are, you’ll get $500 for each record you managed to hold with your guile, talent, and sheer will. General caution and common sense required. We show the Stride Team at work, but recommend that these challenges be done at home.

Thomas C. balanced 23 mechanical pencils on his face.

Brian Pankey completed 79 catches juggling two tennis balls while spinning a basketball on a pencil and balancing a book on his head.

Mr. I made a pencil top eraser chain using 314 erasers.

Vinícius P. performed 44 over-the-thumb pen spins in 30 seconds.

Cramer Ruth snapped 10 pencils with his hands in 6.65 seconds.

(Deleted User) spooled 56 CDs on his pinky finger while balancing a pencil between his lip and nose.

Anthony D. put 95 pencils and 5 bottle caps into a pencil box.

Nicholas M. snapped five pencils with his hands in 2.05 seconds.

Vlad Ivanov broke five pencils using his head in 4.29 seconds.

Jonathan R. broke 50 pencils using his head in 43.60 seconds. He set the record during an episode of Gong Show, a variety show in Cégep de Limoilou, Canada.

Rachel R. broke a pencil then wrote and erased the name Jimmy in 7.41 seconds.

Dane H. has a two-sided pencil that measures 0.20 centimeter in length.

Ben fit 201 pencils in his t-shirt at once while he was wearing it.

Brendan Kelbie balanced a spinning soccer ball on the tip of a pencil held in his mouth for 48.03 seconds.

Ashok Nagpure created a pencil drawing about the biography of Indian film pioneer Dadasaheb Phalke. The drawing measures 8 feet in height and 324 feet in length. It took him 7.2 months to complete the whole drawing and it is currently displayed in Nashik, India.