Twirl World Records

Seated in a bedroom in Chenzhou, Hunan, Yanhao Deng starts a smartwatch stopwatch on camera and circles both hands around each other at the wrists, fingers and palms never touching. RecordSetter checked the single continuous take frame by frame against the stopwatch and counted 37 twirls completed inside the first ten seconds. At the fastest stretch the hands pass four twirls per second.

Seated at a desk in Chenzhou, Hunan, Yanhao Deng starts a smartwatch stopwatch on camera and circles both hands around each other at the wrists, fingers and palms never touching, until the stopwatch passes thirty seconds. RecordSetter checked the single continuous take against the stopwatch: the hands open at well over three twirls per second and settle near three by the end, in line with the claimed 90. It is a blur from the first press of the button.

Seated in a bedroom in Chenzhou, Hunan, Yanhao Deng circles both hands around each other at the wrists, fingers and palms never touching, from the moment a smartwatch stopwatch is started on camera until it passes one minute. RecordSetter checked the single continuous take against the stopwatch and measured a steady rhythm of about 2.7 twirls per second, in line with the claimed 161. The hands barely slow down from start to finish.

Louise B. twirled a ribbon 22 times in 10 seconds.

Chris Skowronek twirled his hair nonstop for one hour, two minutes and six seconds.