Author: ABR Team

Gohil Mahavirsinh Vijaysinh (born on June 20, 1997) of Gujarat, India, set a record for being the fastest to swim one lap underwater in one breath with hands and feet tied. He covered one lap of a swimming pool, measuring 22.4 metres in length (73.49 feet), in 40 seconds while swimming underwater in one breath with hands and feet tied, as confirmed on June 17, 2024.

Ayaan Jain (born on July 10, 2019) of Punjab, India, set a record for being the fastest to verbally answer 50 single and double-digit addition sums. He verbally answered 50 single and double-digit addition sums in 5 minutes and 28 seconds, using the Abacus technique, at the age of 4 years, 11 months and 8 days, as confirmed on June 18, 2024.

Smit Choudhary (born on February 2, 2017) of Madhya Pradesh, India, set a record for using the maximum number of 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cubes to make a mosaic art portrait of Lord Parshuram. He used 360 Rubik’s Cubes to make a large mosaic art portrait of Lord Parshuram (measuring 45 inches x 40 inches), at the age of 7 years, 3 months and 15 days, as confirmed on June 13, 2024.

Kavir Raksha Shisav (born on April 28, 2021) of Maharashtra, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for riding a bicycle without support wheels, and covering a distance of 1.66 km in 6 minutes and 48 seconds, at the age of 2 years and 11 months, as confirmed on May 29, 2024.

MD Nasim Raza Khan (born on July 24, 1987) of Uttar Pradesh, India, set a record for having the oldest pre-independence central legislative assembly Urdu voter list. He has in his possession a 118-year-old central legislative assembly Urdu voter list (Tehsil – Zamania, District – Ghazipur) on paper (measuring 50.5 cm in length x 33 cm in width) pertaining to the years 1906-07 AD to 1945, as confirmed on May 20, 2024.

OPPO Mobiles India Pvt. Ltd. of Haryana, India, set a record for the Most Number of AI Avatars Created in a Day on a Smartphone. They launched a campaign where users shared photos, and 15 representatives created a total of 13,000 unique avatars in 7 hours 30 minutes using OPPO Reno12 Pro phones in Gurugram, Haryana, as confirmed on July 16, 2024.

Habtamu Franke, an Ethiopia-born personal trainer, nutritionist, and mental coach, currently living in the Netherlands, set a record for performing the maximum burpees in an hour. He performed a whopping number of 1,010 chest to ground burpees in an hour, as confirmed on March 15, 2024.

Logan Paul of USA and KSI of UK (real name Olajide Olatunji) set a record for smashing a supersized piñata shaped bottle in Mexico City. The gigantic PRIME piñata, which cost over $1 million to make, had a height of 33.66 metres (110.4 feet) and width of 10.69 metres (35 feet), was both the largest piñata and largest suspended piñata ever, as confirmed on March 15, 2024.

Laura Massey-Pugh and Steven “Stevie” Massey, a couple from Derbyshire, UK, set a record for the fastest circumnavigation by tandem bicycle (mixed). They cycled through 21 countries: Germany, Czechia, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Türkiye, Georgia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. They completed the feat in a total of 179 days, 12 hours, and 25 minutes, arriving in Berlin, Germany, as confirmed on March 15, 2024.

YouTubers – Exodus and Iggy Chaudhry of Wisconsin, USA, with the help of their parents and neighbours, set a record for making the biggest grilled cheese sandwich. They prepared a supersized sandwich measuring 1.89 metres (6.2 feet) wide, 3.32 metres (10.8 feet) long, 7 cm (2.7 inches) thick and weighing 189.9 kg (418.7 lb), as confirmed on March 15, 2024.