Because humans will always need cups and people to stack them efficiently, this is a video of a speed stacker stacking and unstacking a 36-cup pyramid in a blistering 8.462-seconds. Is that some sort of new record? No clue, he seems pretty excited about it though, so I’m excited for
Because dream it and you can achieve it, this is a video of Australian musician Alan Gogoll performing 10,000 guitar harmonics in 14-minutes and 15-seconds. With 855 seconds in that time, that’s a harmonic every 0.0855 seconds. WOW. Wait — just what the hell is a guitar harmonic anyways? Let
This is a short video (complete with sick soundtrack) of the elite armed rollerblading police force being trained in Karachi, Pakistan to help combat street harassment and theft. Admittedly, rollerblades are fast. Also admittedly, they’re significantly not fast at all on anything that isn’t concrete or asphalt, which I imagine
This is a compilation video from Kurihara, Japan’s Kurikoma-Kōgen railway station of bullet trains passing by at up to 200MPH in the snow. Could you imagine standing there? That would be terrifying. Especially if you were hoping to catch one of those trains. Me? I really don’t like traveling any
This is a video of kickboxer Pavel Trussov setting the Guinness World Record for most full-arm extension punches in one minute, with a very respectable 334. He also holds the world record for most full arm extension punches in three minutes, with an equally respectable 919. That is some stamina!
This is a video from the great outdoors of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, of a beaver gnawing through a freshly downed poplar limb in a cool 45 seconds before tossing it over his shoulder to go start construction on the new game room of his dam. Impressive! Of course if trees
Trying hard and believing in yourself: some people still do it. And to prove it, here’s a video of a man setting a new record for stacking eight cups, finishing in a blinding 0.990 seconds. Granted I’m not sure if that’s a new personal record or world record or what,
This is a video of pianist Hayato Sumino (aka Cateen) performing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’ on a toy piano, at an ever increasing tempo, from 160BPM all the way to a blistering 250BPM. For reference, the original is typically played between 144 and 160BPM. In his own words