Tag: GUINNESSBOOKOFWORLDRECORDS

The Guinness World Record for fastest texter has been broken again... we think. Cheong Kit Au, from Australia, mashed out a 264-character text in one minute and 17 seconds, crushing the previous record by 43 seconds. Then again, Melissa Thompson supposedly broke the record in August by Swyping out a 160-character message in just over 25 seconds. If you were to double that measure, you get 320 ...

We can't imagine how this could've possibly happened, but a group of 7,000 people has just set a Guinness World Record for "Most People Tagged in an Online Photo." As Gizmodo explains, the record-setting photo was taken by the Orange mobile network at this year's Glastonbury Festival in England. Because the image of the festival crowd was cast in an astonishing 1300 megapixels, each of the 70,000 ...

Although freak shows have all but disappeared from modern carnivals -- since conjoined twins are now typically sawed in half, and "dog-faced" sufferers of hypertrichosis just get frequent waxes -- we can still look to the Guinness Book of World Records to expose the Earth's strangest and least-marketable talents and afflictions. While it may not be as lofty an achievement as Most Rattlesnakes ...

According to Joystiq, six Dutch gamers set a new Guinness World Record after playing 'Red Dead Redemption' last weekend for 50 hours straight. For their show of endurance, the men each received $1,300, a Twistdock connector for the PlayStation 3, their names etched in the Guinness Book and probably some slight bladder or kidney damage along with a dose of carpal-tunnel syndrome. The men began the ...

How fast can you fire off a text message? More than likely, not nearly as fast as 23-year-old Seattle resident Franklin Page. According to The Seattle Times, Page is the fastest text messager in the entire world. If his record of entering a 160-character phrase on a Samsung Omnia II cell phone in just 35.54 seconds holds up for a few months, Page will see his name written in the Guinness Book of ...

Now that most of us text at a decent rate (phone permitting, natch), it was inevitable that someone would go and make a competition out of it. Yesterday, LG did just that with the first ever Mobile World Cup Championship in New York City (video after the jump). The culmination of an eight-month competition started back in May 2009, first-prize winners Young-Ho Bae and Mok-Min Ha of Korea, ...

So, how do you know if the press loves your video game? Well, one way would be to see if Guinness decides it's the "Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever." Such has the case for 'Batman: Arkham Asylum,' released last week on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It's a rather unscientific poll, obviously. Review scores are themselves a problematic and imprecise thing, and aggregating them only ...

'Guitar Hero' may have sparked some debate among music's elite about whether or not it's good for the music industry, but among gamers, there's no debate that it is a serious test of skill, particularly the song "Through the Fire and Flames" by DragonForce. It's seven-plus minutes of carpal-tunnel-inducing pain that only the best can survive, and a 14-year-old kid from Texas has recently become ...