Shortest World Records  

Doug McManaman dropped two bowie knives while standing on a chair, landing one of the knives .5 inches from the egg.

Akshay Kalose ran 23 meters in a single game of Temple Run.

Doug McManaman missed a bowling ball hit, leaving a distance of 6.5 inches between the bowling ball and the bowling pin.

Tony Cattano finished a ladder match on WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It in one minute, 22.78 seconds.

Jonathan Mann sang a song about the Rainbow Parade that lasted 54.84 seconds. He set the record to celebrate RecordSetter World Record Day. #WorldRecordDay2012

Tony Czuchnowski filmed a video with a duration of .3 seconds.

A student camper from iD Tech Camps at Ohio State University reached a distance of 11 feet in a game of Kitten Cannon. [ #iDTech][] [ #iDTech]: /search/IDTech

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya made a video advertisement for a book that was 0.33 seconds in length. The short book advertisement is entitled “Puran Katha”.

Arthur Meyer and Dan Klein performed a comedy sketch that took just 0.50 seconds, making it the shortest sketch ever. The duo set the record at a RecordSetter LIVE! event held at UCB Theater[] in New York City during SketchFest.

Greg Harell-Edge and Dave Penndorf made a high five in which their palms started just 0.19 millimeters apart. The duo set the record as part of National High Five Day.

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya made a video featuring wildlife that was .04 seconds in length.

The NMDP Office of Patient Advocacy set a world record for the shortest race to break cancer, measuring six feet (72 inches).

Thomas McGinniss and Josh Graber had a pillow fight that lasted 1.40 seconds.

48 attendees of iD Tech Camp at Villanova University created a ‘Warp Speed’ clap chain that was completed in 0.43 seconds. Each person clapped immediately after the person in line next to them, creating, in essence, a wave of claps. Based on their submission claim, the average length of each individual’s clap was .0089583 seconds. Until we can find a way to measure this and/or future submissions in this category, we consider this submission “pending.” [#iDTech][]