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Most Universities Named in Five Seconds

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Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan / November 1, 2026

Hanzala Nazir sits in front of shelves of Arabic and Urdu books in Faisalabad, Pakistan, while a friend holds a phone stopwatch beside him. On "go" he rattles off IIT, MIT, Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, California, Chicago, Zurich, Sydney, Dartmouth, Reading and Rice, close to three universities a second. RecordSetter counted the names from the video's sound and timed the run from the start call to the last name at under five seconds; Cambridge turns up only in his slower recap afterward, so the total is 14. Not bad for a campus tour that ends before most people finish saying "admissions office."

Tags: speed, naming, education, memory, university

Rules

- Say the names of real universities aloud, one after another, within five seconds.
- Each name must refer to a different university or university system; widely used short names count (for example Oxford, MIT or IIT), and a repeated name counts once.
- Start on a clear signal with a running stopwatch or timer visible in the video; only names finished within five seconds of the start count.
- Film the attempt in one continuous, unedited video in which every name can be heard.
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