Word World Records  

Tai Star wove an eloquent web of 26 words with insatiable drive to create the longest mnemonic device. The mnemonic is to remember the alphabet backwards.

Ashly took 18.20 seconds to pronounce GISHWHES.

Jordan Brown said the word “Stride” non-stop for one minute, 50.06 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.

Zach Neal said the word “winning” non-stop for two minutes, 19.98 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.

Andreas Wagner used a 1,185-letter word in a song. The word is the chemical name for Coat Protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain. See entire word here.

Maddi Stadtmueller and her friends created 25 backronyms in one minute.

Sara Goldberg verbalized an astounding 20 variations on “meow” in one minute, a new world record. She performed the feat on March 25, 2009 at a World Record Appreciation Society[] event held at Pianos in New York City. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present to document the record. Impressions included are: “cat on a train,” “cat with sleep apnea,” “cat drowning,” “catatonic,” “cattle call,” “cat watching birds,” “cat starting an engine,” “cat wanting attention,” “cat high on cat nip,” “Siamese cats,” “cat hard of hearing,” “cat stuck in a closet,” “catstration,” “cat on fire,” “cat where there the cat-sitter forgot to come,” “cat allergic to its owner,” “cat looking at his 401(k) in 2005,” “cat looking at his 401(k) in 2009,” “cat watching TV,” “cat choking on hairball,” and “cat on a hot tin roof.” [#WRAS05][]

Rowan C. recited 106 four-letter words in one minute.

CNN reporter Alina Cho performed a network news signature sign-off 38 times in 30 seconds. Cho set the feat during a live CNN morning news program in New York City. RecordSetter Council president Dan Rollman and co-founder Corey Henderson presided over the attempt.

Ian Kalman displayed contempt for his fellow man when he insulted 15 people in one minute, a new world record. He fired insults at a line of volunteers, choosing to pass on only one. Kalman set the record on February 17, 2009 at a World Record Appreciation Society[] event at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco, California. Dan Rollman and Debbie Hampton were present as witnesses. #WRAS04

A student camper from iD Tech Camps at University of Michiganrefused to set a world record 35 times in 30 seconds. [#iDTech][] tag:RecordSetterBook01

Mark Lamster mentioned 24 regrets in one minute.

Bryson Pennock, Spencer Merrifield and Bryan Hoffman said “butter” 74 times in sequential order in 20 seconds.

Stuart Duggan recited the tongue twister “Mrs. Smith’s Fish Sauce Shop” 18 times in 30 seconds. He broke the record live in the Bright FM studio during the Bailey @ Breakfast show. #RecordSetterBook01

Matthew J. recited the English alphabet backwards 26 times in one minute.

Michael Epsenhart said the world ‘galaptasaurus’ 92 times in one minute, a new world record. ‘Galaptasaurus’ was originally defined by category creator Yan Grinshteyn as “a tyrannosaurus that spends way too much time vacationing in the Galapagos.”