Most Pencils Lifted With a Litter Picker

China

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Beihu-Chenzhou-Hunan, SAR, China / October 18, 2026

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, lifted 28 pencils off a classroom floor in a single grab with a litter picker. In one continuous phone clip, the metal jaws close around a spread of orange, yellow, white and teal pencils, squeeze them into a bundle and raise it into the air, where it hangs for about seven seconds without a pencil falling. The bundle is packed too tightly to count pencil by pencil on camera, but about two dozen pencils show on its outside with more hidden inside, consistent with the claimed 28. Litter pickers are usually trusted with one wrapper at a time.

Tags: pencil, lift, holding, stationery, tool, grabber

Rules

- The pencils start loose on the floor or a table, with no glue, tape, rubber bands or other ties
- Use one handheld litter picker (a grabber with two jaws worked from the handle); only its handle may be held
- The pencils are picked up in a single grab: the jaws may push them together before closing, and no pencil may be added after the lift
- Once the pencils leave the surface, nothing but the jaws may touch them, with no hand, other body part or support
- Standard full-length wooden pencils, sharpened or unsharpened
- Only pencils still held in the jaws count; any left behind or dropped do not
- The pencils must be held in the air for at least one second without any falling
- Must be one continuous, unedited video showing the pencils on the surface before the grab
- Must follow form of current world record holder
- Must provide video evidence
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