Author: Asia Book of Records Team

POSB PAssion Run for Kids of Singapore, set a record for organising the largest mass plogging session at Angsana Green, Singapore. The term plogging combines jogging with picking up litter. A total of 445 adults and children carried plastic bags and tongs for the plogging session which means jogging along with picking up litter at the 10th anniversary of POSB PAssion Kids Fund, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.

Tommy Cherry of USA, set a record for the fastest time to solve a 3×3 Rubik’s cube while being blindfolded. He solved a single 3×3 Rubik’s cube in just 14.67 seconds, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.

Om Madan Garg of Singapore, set a record by being the youngest to climb the Everest Base Camp. He walked 65 km in over 10 days with his parents (altitude gain of around 2,500 m) from the village of Lukla at 2,860 m to the Everest base at 5,364 m at the age of 6 years and 6 months, as confirmed on May 12, 2023.

Yiheng Wang of China, set a record of being the fastest to solve Rubik’s cube. He solved a 3x3x3 cube with an average time of 4.69 seconds during the semi-final of the Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the age of 9 years, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.

Adriana Brownlee of London, Great Britain, set a record for being the youngest woman to conquer both Mount Everest and K2. She summited Everest in 2021 and K2 in 2022, at the age of 21 years and 202 days, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.

Sebastian Steudtner of Germany, set a record of becoming the highest wave surfer. He surfed through a wave that measured a whopping 26.21 m (86 feet) off the coast of Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.

Sanjay S. Tippannavar (born on September 29, 2001) of Karnataka, India, set a record for writing the maximum number of research papers on Electronics and Communication Engineering in one year. He wrote 35 research papers on Electronics and Communication Engineering including 18 papers for IEEE International Conferences and 17 papers for Scopus indexed journals from March 2022 to March 2023, as confirmed on April 3, 2023.

Keshvi Ranga (born on September 7, 2015) of Rajasthan, India, set a record for performing the maximum number of cartwheels in 30 seconds. She performed 22 cartwheels in 30 seconds at the age of 7 years, 7 months and 6 days, as confirmed on April 19, 2023.

Students, their parents and staff of Teck Ghee Primary School, Singapore set a record for being the maximum people folding paper strip stars. A total of 1,232 students, staff and parent volunteers folded stars from pre-cut paper strips on the 20th anniversary of the school, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.

Olle Lundin of Sweden set a record by cracking maximum joints of the body in a row. He consecutively cracked 46 different joints in his body, at the age of 23, as confirmed on May 13, 2023.