Record Ideas
Our competition has ended and we would like to thank all those who were true Mormon World Record Makers, and also those who were the purveyors of Amazing Firsts, Facts and Feats.
Even though we no longer offer a prize please feel free to be a Mormon World Record! and make the attempt.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Domino toppling – solo effort
Domino stacking
Most hits by lightning
Longest elevator fall survival
Longest potato flight by a potato gun
Longest pumpkin launch
Longest human cannon ball
Balanced anything (bowling balls, golf balls, books on head, heaviest weight on head, etc.)
Most of anything eaten
Most clothes pins pinched on a face
Most of anything involving animals/fish/birds/insects or anything in shortest time (sheep sheared (manual or electric), cows milked by hand, chickens plucked, fish caught (not at a trout farm!), roaches eaten, worms eaten, etc.)
Tight-rope walk: steepest, highest, longest, blindfolded, backwards, etc.
Farthest plane/car/boat/truck/train pull by one man or woman, or a team of pullers
Largest ball of twine, foil, plastic, wire, etc.
Largest thing: wooden swing, abacus, ax, rifle, outhouse, telescope, wooden spoon, clock, shirt, butter sculpture, towel, collections of anything (pigs, cows, canes, bugs), etc.
Largest group: dancing, human pyramid, lap sit, game, hug, pillow fight, whoopee cushion sit, human domino line, kissing, blowing bubbles, brushing/flossing teeth, simultaneous balloon popping, leap frogging, human conveyor belt, car cramming, seated atop each other in a chair, pillow fight, eating green Jell-O at a sporting event, drinking milk at a sporting event, line dance, line kick, largest "row row row your boat" sectional (100 sections), etc.
Smallest anything: kite, tie, house, fishing pole, bicycle, etc.
LONGEVITY
Who has held the same calling the longest in any Church assignment?
Most distant direct ancestor (no, the oft-used Royal Lineage or Adam & Eve leaps to fame don't count!)
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Largest/smallest/quantity of any fruit or vegetable; Strangest looking; Tree with the most different fruit
Heaviest: cabbage, potato, tomato, pumpkin, squash, peach, watermelon, etc.
Largest: flower, garden, leaf, rose bush, seed collection, weed, corn cob, pine cone, etc.
Age: oldest tree, shrub, flower, vine, etc.
Tallest: plant, tree, cactus, hedge, shrub, bush,
ANIMALS
Largest/smallest/strangest of any animal (especially horse, cow, pig, cat, dog, hamster, guinea pig, bird)
Largest litter, tail, feet, load carried, etc.
Animal Tricks: most tennis balls held in mouth at one time, largest repertoire of tricks, etc.
Fastest: between litters, running, opening a house or car door, etc.
Most (for animals): toes, eyes, ears, etc.
Highest surviving climb, jump, fall (for animals)
Longest: tail, whiskers, claws, life span
Oldest, youngest to do anything; to live
SPORTS:
Sprints – female and male champions in all age groups
Distance Runners – female champions in all age groups
Yo-yo competition
Organized sports superlatives (first, last, most, farthest, closest, etc.)
Highest shallow dive
Longest bicycle/unicycle/in-line skates/skateboard ride forwards or backwards
Fastest bicycle/unicycle/in-line skates/skateboard ride forwards or backwards
Most repetitions in one minute/hour/day/year, etc. (jump rope, arm curls, pushups, one-arm pushups, etc.)
Most Hula-hoops hooped
Longest Hula-hoop hoop
Pogo-stick: fastest, farthest, endurance
THINKERS
Chess competition champ in all ages
Intelligence or recall contests of all kinds
BODY
Longest beard
Longest hair
Longest toenails
Shortest
Heaviest
Lightest
Tallest woman
Most children from one mom and dad
Most premature baby
Longest in-womb surviving baby
Longest interval between births for one mother
Shortest interval between births for one mother
Heaviest and Lightest birth weights for one or more (twins, triplets, etc.)
Largest feet, head, hands, etc.
Most toes or fingers
Age
Most siblings, twins, children among presidencies, etc., born on the same day
Oldest living man or woman
Oldest twins, triplets
Longest wed
Longest lived
Most generations to achieve or remain or be in something LDS related
MEDICAL
Youngest to experience anything medical: transplant, implant, replacement, dentures, etc
Most rare disease
Most blood donated in one sitting; in a life time; by a group in one day
Longest coma survivor (who finally came out of it)
Longest survivor on an artificial heart; dialysis
Most operations endured
Most amputations
Youngest or oldest heart/kidney/pancreas/lung transplant patient
Youngest multi-organ transplant patient
WEIRDNESS!
Strangest anything (Stupid Human tricks, gross, sickening, most of this or that eaten (spiders, mayonnaise, marshmallows), creepy, gives me the willies, etc.)
AND ANY OTHERS! Please contact us with your idea if you'd like help establishing rules by which the record attempt is measured.
