I kept a hoe balanced on my chin for over an hour and 41 minutes. In doing so, my nose and I reclaimed the Guinness World Records title for the longest duration balancing an object on nose.

The first time I broke this record in 2017 the record stood at about 30 minutes. I went 40. It has seen been broken a time or two and stood at about 1 hour 30 minutes. Besides the pain of having to look up for over an hour and a half, there are a couple of other things to deal with on this one. The first is that the object must weigh over 2.5 lbs so it can’t be a light object. As the nose is mostly made of soft cartridge it deforms under the pressure of the object. This is not only painful, as the nose deforms the balance point of the object moves on the nose. If it gets too far to the slide it’ll slide off. Additionally, if the balance starts to go and you have to move quickly to keep the nose under the center of gravity, the risk of falling off dramatically increases.

I stood for most of the attempt, but after an hour and 37 minutes, I had my wife bring me a chair and sat for the last 3 minutes, at which point the hoe tipped to the side and touched the wall ending the attempt.