Tower World Records

Jane Harris stacked 13 Funko Bitty Pop boxes on a soccer ball.

Pavol Durdik stacked six marshmallows on his elbow.

Pavol Durdik stacked two marshmallows on his nose.

Pavol Durdik stacked seven marshmallows on a knife held in his mouth.

Pavol Durdik stacked nine marshmallows in 10 seconds.

Pavol Durdik stacked nine marshmallows on a beer bottle.

Pavol Durdik stacked eight marshmallows on a table tennis paddle held in his hand.

Pavol Durdik stacked five apples on the palm of his hand.

Pavol Durdik stacked 13 fidget spinners on a table tennis racket held in his mouth.

Kai Yi Lim removed five Jenga blocks from a Jenga tower in 6.32 seconds using his tongue.

Kai Yi Lim stacked 15 dominoes on top of a die one-handed in 10 seconds.

Pavol Durdik stacked 13 paper cups in a tower in 10 seconds.

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, stacked five square plastic bottles on their sides into a freestanding tower in 2.80 seconds. With the bottles lined up on a desk beside a phone stopwatch, Yanhao starts the clock, sets four empty clear bottles one on top of another over a yellow bottle with liquid inside, and stops the clock as soon as the fifth is in place. RecordSetter read 00:02.80 on the stopwatch close-up and timed the gap between the two taps on the video to confirm it, then watched the tower stand untouched while Yanhao showed that a top bottle was empty. Five bottles, one tower, under three seconds.

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, stacked five plastic bottle caps upside down into a freestanding column in 2.04 seconds. With the caps spread out on a desk in front of a phone stopwatch, Yanhao starts the clock, sets each cap open side up on the one below, and stops the clock as soon as the fifth is on top. RecordSetter read 00:02.04 on the stopwatch close-up and timed the gap between the two taps on the video to confirm it, then watched the little tower stand on its own while the camera circled it. Five caps, wrong way up, in about two seconds.

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, stacked five plastic bottle caps upside down into a freestanding column in 3.15 seconds using only one hand. The caps start in a row on a desk in front of a phone stopwatch, and the same right hand starts the clock, sets each cap open side up on the one below, and stops the clock once the fifth is on top. RecordSetter read 00:03.15 on the stopwatch close-up, checked that the other hand never enters the shot, and watched the column stand on its own until the clip ends. Five caps, wrong way up, one hand.

Pavol Durdik of Puchov, Slovakia, sits at his living room table holding a knife level in one hand while the other stacks orange fidget spinners on the blade, one at a time, until the column reaches his chin. The single unedited shot shows all 19 spinners standing on their own for about eight seconds with his free hand pulled clear, before he reaches for a 20th and the tower topples. A narrow blade makes for a wobbly base, which is what makes the height count.