Here’s another one that might start with: “but why?”

It’s also a medium to hard one to pull off. I’ve had this one on my list to break for well over a year. I’m also proficient in catching things in my mouth.

I practiced on and off for over a year but have had a table tennis ball next to my practice spot on the wall in my kitchen ready to go for months. I pick it up, go for it for a bit, and then put it back.

I decided to get serious about this over the past few weeks while buckling down for my 29-mile joggling run that I did a couple of weeks ago since this wasn’t as physically straining as that one and thus paired up nicely.

I did have to wash that corner of the floor extra good with Lysol a few times since I didn’t like all the stuff the ball would get on it when it drops on the floor ;).

The previous record was 34 times to bounce a table tennis ball off the wall and catch it back in the mouth in 30 seconds. When I first started practicing the record I thought it was for one minute and thought it was going to be a piece of cake to beat. Then I realized my mistake.

Thousdands up on thousands of bounces off the wall later, I strung together 44 consecutive bounces off the wall caught back in my mouth from a meter away. Slow motion video review showed the 44th ball didn’t leave my mouth until 30.08 seconds so it wad disqualified.

The final result was 43 in 30 seconds which I’m pretty happy about.

What I’m not so happy with is how flattering I look in the video.

I bet you though Oreos were flat.

I did too.

But then I watched Oreo towers fall over time after time after time. Maybe even 50 times. If I caught the tower as it fell I could usually reuse all the Oreos. If it fell before I could catch it I’d have some that would break or chip and I had to discard (*eat) them… fortunatly i didn’t have to eat them at the pace I damaged them.

The final tally was 38 stacked in 30 seconds (I placed a 39th one just after time expired).

In the news

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/10/05/Man-stacks-38-cookies-in-30-seconds-for-Guinness-record/9041601919172/

I only missed once. I got 27 shots off in 1 minute on a single load NERF gun, and I only missed once. The target did get so full that 2 shots bounced off other darts so they didn’t count, but I’m almost more proud that I only had 1 shot off target than I broke my previous Guinness World Record mark by over 25%.

I broke this record for the first time in 2018 with 16 hits. Ashrita took it back. I broke it again in 2019 with 19 hits. This time, I’m trying to put it out of reach.

I’m in the middle of some pretty strenuous training for some physically demanding record attempts (i.e 125+ miles run already in September alone), but I want to keep breaking other records that don’t take as much physical stamina. That’s not to say this record is easy to break. When I first found it at 14 hits in a minute, it took me months of practice to get to a point where I could break it. It’s a good thing this is a fun record to practice.

Tens of thousands of shots later, I know how the dart is going to fly. Loading the dart is almost more important that aiming to fire. The slowest part of this record is getting the next foam dart in the chamber and cocking it. If you move too fast, it’s easy to start pushing on the dart before it’s perfectly lined up with the hole. If that happens the dart bends and won’t fire strait, or if it’s bad, it won’t even reach the target. I’ve learned to feel for the slight bend in the dart as I push it in to aim just a little up, down, left, or right to make sure it hits its mark.

By the end of the attempt there are usually groupings of darts that I need to aim away from, otherwise there’s a higher chance it’ll hit a dart already on the board and bounce off. This happened to me twice.

In the end, I got 24 hits that were still on the target 5 seconds after the minute expired qualifying me for another Guinness World Records title.

I participated in the Guinness World Records – Try this at home challenge again (after they took a month break) and won for the second time. This was for the Fastest Time to Eat a Cream Filled Biscuit.

I was on vacation at Yellowstone National Park with my wife and 2 boys when the challenge was issued so had to find a store with a “cream filled biscuit”. Guinness doesn’t use brand names in their records, but Oreo’s would the the most likely candidate. I found these others at the discount store I stopped in at.

The rules were as such: Place the cookie in front of you. Don’t touch the cream-filled cookie until time starts. Put it on the forehead above the eyebrows. Move it down using only the face (must be touching the face at all times). Eat the cookie. Show the mouth open and empty.

I completed it in 8.8 seconds with a lot of help from my son. He was so cute. He called 3,2,1, go! (several times!), told me to eat the cookie (during the official attempt I used), stuck his tongue like me (so cute! even if I’m forming bad habits), and called out “come on” (like I do most times when I break a record)!

There was a little controversy in the online forums that my “cream filled biscuit” was a little smaller than the typical Oreo (no rules about the size). There was also another competitor that ate it a little faster than me, but he was DQ’d. It appears it flipped on the way down (not allowed) and that there was cookie left in his mouth (also not allowed) so I don’t feel too bad at being awarded the title (even if it required less practice than most).

In the news: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/08/31/Watch-Man-moves-cookie-from-forehead-to-mouth-for-Guinness-record/3171598887299/

Finally, an eating record that I enjoyed attempting (DQ’d due to opening the mouth just a smidge slow at the end).. The last two were horrific.

This record is more speed and precision than it is Joey Chestnut. It comes after my poker chip speed stacking which is related, but it still requires also requires fast-food consumption. I practiced that with corn kernels, peas, and beans as well. Blueberries are all much tastier.

It’s still COVID-19 social distancing and you may hear my kids fighting, my 2-year old smiling at my record success, and my wife laughing at me (all during the official record attempt) but that’s all fair game at this point.

The previous record was 96 blueberries eaten in one minute (each one had to be picked up and eaten one at a time). I was able to achieve 107. I then took 3 more seconds to finish chewing and swallowing and showed my mouth empty at the end.

I first broke this record in July 2018. It was harder this time.

The Bob and Tom‘s job show contacted me in July 2019 asking me if I wanted to attempt to break a world record by popping balloons with them on it. I said that would be great, how about we print your faces on the balloons and I threw chopsticks out them to pop them.

They decided they go with their logo instead.

I have thrown several thousand chopsticks in preparation for these recent chopsticks throwing records. A few weeks ago I broke the Guinness World Records title for the most chopsticks thrown in the target in one minute. That was 4 meters away, this was 2.

When I first broke this record I popped 28 balloons with chopsticks in one minute breaking the previous record of 24. It was broken recently with the run of 36 popped in one minute (50% than when I first broke it) so it was time to go after it again, but a lot more practice was required.

The longest part of getting prepped for this record was all the prep work: putting up all the cardboard, blowing up all the balloons, and taping both on the wall. We used hand pumps to pump up all the blooms instead of our mouths to ensure they were COVID-19-free. It took well over an hour for setup.

After a 3-2-1 go I started throwing the aluminum chopsticks from over 2 meters away. My first two throws missed. I should have stopped right there and restarted. I can only throw a little over 60 chopsticks per minute I need to make over 60% count. After 30 seconds I was just barely on pace to beat the record. I started panicking because I didn’t want to have us blow up that many more balloons for another try. We were already over schedule. But I calmed my body down, threw the chopsticks a little faster, and dialed in my throws to end up with 40 balloons burst in one minute, with one chopstick allowed to burst one balloon only and only one chopstick allowed to be thrown at a time.

Thanks so much for the help Summer, Gary, Sean, Christian! I couldn’t have done it without you! And for the record – you were all way better at throwing chopsticks than I made you look in the video (except that last shot at the end… that was just as impressive as it looked).

There’s some professional poker playing strategy advice for Texas Hold’em. After a player wins a big hand, they’re less likely to play the next hand unless they have a very strong hand. The logic goes, they’ll be so busy stacking their chips that they won’t be interested in playing unless they have strong hold cards.

I don’t think that idiom applies to me.

I rank the Guinness World Record’s titles I break on a 4-level scale of easy, medium, hard, and impossible. The easy ones I think there may be someone else in this room who could break it right now. Medium is anyone could break this record with some practice. Hard means it usually requires an expert in some category to break. And impossible is I think I may be only one of a handful of people in the world who could make an attempt at this record.

I thought this record was medium. It might be, but it now sku’s toward hard. It took me over a year and a half of on and off practice to break.

The record was for most casino chips stacked in 30 seconds. The previous record was 42. When I started practicing (after honing my fast-twitch muscle responses as the world’s fastest juggler), I could get in the low 30s. After several weeks of practice, I could get more than 35, but not by much.

I finally bucked down with a growth mindset and decided I was going to break it and focused for a few weeks.

I finished with a run of 48 poker chips stacked in 30 seconds with each chip placed 1 at a time from over 10 cm away. I placed the 49th chip as time expired, but it was after 30 seconds had ticked passed so it didn’t count. 5 seconds later (must not fall over for 5 seconds) I had the record.