World Records to Break from the Comfort of Your Home

Want to be a record breaker from the comfort of your living room? Then try and break these! Everyone wants to feel special, but there’s a way you can prove it: simply break a world record.

Easy to say, hard to achieve? Well, there are actually plenty of world records you can break from home. World records aren’t just for Olympic-level athletes. Thousands of these records are stored over at the Guinness World Records vault.

If you can think of something that can be timed or counted, there’s a good chance there’s a world record attached to it. Just a few of our favorite examples include the most pegs attached to someone’s face (not one we want to try ourselves) and the highest number of T-shirts donned in 60 seconds.

There are world records for video games, eating pizza, and flying a paper plane, all stored in the giant Guinness World Records database. The mere mention of that name may make some of you a bit misty-eyed for Record Breakers. It was a show broadcast in the UK from 1972 to 2001, in which people tried to break world records under the supervision of Guinness World Records adjudicators.

But Guinness never stopped. You can see the latest collection of Guinness World Records in its 2024 almanac or hunt for records to break from home on its website.

Below you’ll find some of our favorite world records we think you could have a crack at breaking from home. If you have suggestions you think we should add, fire them over in the suggestions box at the bottom of this article. Good luck!

1. Most Socks Put on One Foot in 30 Seconds
Can you put 28 socks on one foot in just 30 seconds? If so, wow, well then do 29 and you will be a record breaker. Pavol Durdik from Slovakia currently holds the record for this, with the only rule being that you have to put them on one at a time. That’s right, there are no rules for them being clean so you can raid your laundry basket for this one.

2. Tallest Toilet Paper Tower
We know you have been stocking up on the toilet paper, so why not put those (currently) unused rolls to good use and try to win the record for the tallest toilet paper tower? The current holder, Silvio Sabba (a name that crops up a lot in world record lists) managed 28 rolls. The only rule is that you must only touch one roll at a time.

3. Most Selfies Taken in Three Minutes
One of the most recent records on the list, Indian actor Akshay Kumar took 184 selfies in under three minutes as promo for his new movie, Selfiee. If you were doing this from the comfort of your home, would you be able to take even more? You tell us. Just make sure you have a decent selfie stick to get the best angles.

4. Most Smarties Eaten in One Minute Using Chopsticks While Blindfolded
You can use Smarties or M&Ms, we're not fussy with this one, but we actually reckon that this one is easy to beat. Eating 20 Smarties in one minute is simple… What’s that? You need to use a blindfold and chopsticks? Well, that changes things somewhat. You also can only pick up one Smartie or M&M at a time.

5. Fastest Time to Find All Letters of the Alphabet in Alphabet Spaghetti
Cody Jones is the current alphabet spaghetti champion - which is a brilliant record to hold. The record to beat is a cool 3 minutes 21 seconds to find all of the letters of the alphabet in a can of alphabet spaghetti. That sounds like a lot of time but, trust us, you’ll be turning the air blue trying to find the elusive V.

6. Fastest Time to Assemble a Mr. Potato Head
If you have a Mr. Potato Head lying around (everyone should, to be honest), then you can try and break the record of the fastest time ever to assemble him. The rule is very Radiohead, in that everything must be in the right place. To win the record, you’ll have to beat Samet Durmaz from Turkey, who managed it in an unbelievable 6.62 seconds.

7. Most Football Touches in 30 Seconds
If keepy-uppy in the garden is keeping you sane right now, then this is the record attempt for you. In 30 seconds, you need to do as many football touches as you can. The current winning totals have been made by Parker Kuklinski (252 football touches) from the USA, and Chloe Hegland from Canada (163 football touches), respectively. The one rule is that the ball must be kept in the air.

8. Fastest Time to Eat a 12-Inch Pizza Using a Fork
If you normally eat a pizza with a fork, then we officially aren’t friends. But we will let you off if you attempt to break this record. Kelvin Medina from the Philippines is the current record holder, having managed to eat 12 inches of pizza, with a fork, in a mere 23.62 seconds. That’s pretty damn fast. The rule is that you have to have swallowed it as well.

9. Most Clothes Pegs Clipped to the Face
Don’t blame us if this leaves your face rawer than your scrubbed hands after doing this one. We are just putting it out there that if you did manage to clip 52 clothes pegs on your face, then you would beat Silvio Sabba’s current world record of 51. This record has stood for eight years now. Surely it’s time for us all to get our pegs out and try and break it?

10. Fastest Time to Unravel a Toilet Roll with One Hand
Don’t have enough toilet paper rolls to attempt the toilet paper tower? This one only requires a single roll. And a whole lot of manual dexterity, because you need to unravel it with a single hand. This one has been held by a Serbian chap called Dalibor Jablanovic, who also holds the record for the most spoons balanced on his face (31). He managed to unravel a toilet roll in just 9.8 seconds, back in 2013.

11. Most Push-Ups with Hand Claps in One Minute
This record is currently held by a Brit. Stephen Buttler from the UK has managed a whopping 90 push-ups with hand claps in one minute. 90. That’s a phenomenal achievement. We can only assume that he has the upper body strength of a three-year-old when you try and take cake out of their hands. Impressive stuff, but we’re sure you can beat it.

12. Longest Distance to Shoot a Rubber Band
In 1999, Leo Clouser of the USA sent a rubber band flying over 30 meters in a school gym in Wyoming. No special tools were used here, just the rubber bands and hands. Of course, this one does require a large space most of us don’t have access to at home. The record was set indoors, meaning Clouser did not have to worry about any negative, or positive, effects of additional wind resistance. Still, we’re tempted to try this one down at the local park.

13. Largest Bubble Gum Bubble Blown
How hard can blowing a great big bubble gum bubble be? You might feel your confidence drain away when you hear the record-breaking bubble’s diameter was more than three times the width of the average person’s head at 50.8cm. This record has been held by American Chad Fell ever since 2004. You’d better start exercising those jaw muscles. Chad’s pro tip is to use three pieces of Hubba Bubba, apparently.