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Most Over-The-Thumb Pen Spins In One Minute

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Tallahassee, Florida, United States / February 24, 2011

John Cassel performed 70 over-the-thumb pen spins in one minute.

- must use an ordinary pen or marker
- pen must freely rotate 360 degrees over the thumb of the hand in which it is being held and return to its starting position
- must provide video evidence
- spins must fall completely within the time frame; incomplete spins will be deducted from the final total

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  • United States Ross Martin

    Congratulations on your stunning achievement!

    Per the comments below, one hand is implied because it refers to a single pen, and a single thumb. A separate record for over-the-thumbs pen spins using two pens can be made.

  • Canada Dan Rollman

    Ross -- since you're attempting a new record, you have the freedom to define the criteria/rules. In the spirit of consistency, I'd try to build your criteria around existing pen spinning feats. Two different categories are more than welcome, and a unicycle in the midst of it all? Sounds awesome!

  • Australia Peter Craig

    Go the unicycle records Ross!!

  • United States Ross Martin

    I didn't realize my record had been broken--don't think I received a notice. Congrats to the new winner. Looks like I'm going to have to set a new one while riding a unicycle. An earlier question was about whether this needed to be one-handed. That was my intent (I thought about trying to set a different one with two hands). Do I need to do anything as the original record setter to add that criteria?

  • United States Dan Leatherman

    Remi John That's your cue to set them! I'd love to see some more pen-spinning records!

  • The Internet John Cassel

    Yeah I was wondering if a thumbaround harmonic would count as 2. The only stipulation is that it "freely rotates 360 degrees" and "return[s] to its starting position." Technically a harmonic meets both of these conditions i'm thinking. I wish there were more records dealing with pen spinning.

  • The Internet Khoi Nguyen

    why i can't see those video on my laptop. But others can???

  • United States Brian Pankey

    very good!

  • The Internet Vivek Kumar

    That sounds good to me.

  • United States Dan Leatherman

    Maybe we split this category into one-handed and two-handed. I do think the original record was done with one hand, maybe we should add it to the criteria.

  • The Internet Vivek Kumar

    Ross could re-upload the video and update the criteria to say you can only use one hand. I'd be happy to compete for it.

  • United States Brian Pankey

    the criteria should have said only can use one hand

  • United States Dan Leatherman

    I must not have seen this, looks like I'll need to practice and try again.

  • United States Brian Pankey

    Hello Dan Ross Martin did 48 in 1 minute it listed - Most Over-The-Thumb Pen Spins In One Minute

  • United States Brian Pankey

    Dan your record has already been done before.

  • United States Dan Leatherman

    Bring it on people, I'm ready to compete for this record.

  • United States Ross Martin

    I figure it won't be long before this record gets smashed by a grad student somewhere in another time zone. Then I'll just have to do it on a unicycle...

  • United States Brian Pankey

    I also do pen spinning! Awesome!

  • United States Ross Martin

    This was witnessed by RobotBoy2001

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