Pressing World Records

Clint P. completed 18 reps overhead pressing a 101-pound keg.

Clint P. completed 12 reps overhead pressing a 128-pound keg.

Clint P. completed 17 reps overhead pressing a 165-pound wooden log.

Clint P. completed 15 reps overhead pressing a 175-pound wooden log.

Clint P. completed 12 overhead presses of a 165-pound wooden log and two 10-pound weight plates.

Clint P. completed 10 reps overhead pressing a 165-pound wooden log and four 10-pound weight plates.

Clint Poore pressed a 55-pound anvil 15 times with his right arm.

Clint Poore pressed a 55-pound anvil 14 times with his left arm.

Clint P. completed six reps pressing a 70-pound anvil with his right arm.

Levi Rudolph of Merion Station, Pennsylvania pressed the lap button on an iPad stopwatch 125 times in 15 seconds. Sitting on a couch, he starts the Clock app's stopwatch from zero and drums the lap button with one index finger while his other hand steadies the iPad. The stopwatch's own lap list keeps the count: Lap 125 is logged at 14.84 seconds and Lap 126 lands just past the mark at 15.01. That works out to more than eight presses a second.

Admiral Tophat pressed down a stapler 42 times in 10 seconds.

Clint P. performed six reps pressing a 105-pound red dumbbell with his right arm.

Clint P. performed seven reps pressing a 105-pound red dumbbell with his left arm.

Simon Perkins pressed a button 87 times on a gaming controller in 10 seconds.

Nathan D. pressed the equal sign on a scientific calculator 467 times in one minute.

Matthew O. pressed the lap button on her iPad stopwatch 112 times in 10 seconds.