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Fastest 100% completion of Battletoads

Battletoads (Nintendo, 1991) is revered by beat-em-up fans not only as one of the best-looking NES titles ever made, but also as one of the genre’s most difficult games, which makes Pablo Bert’s record completion time of 34 min 17 sec all the more impressive. Bert completed his record-breaking speed run through all 12 levels of the game on 13 May 2008. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010

Fastest 100m waterski tow by rowing boat

The record for the fastest time for a waterskier towed by a rowing boat to travel 100 m is 19.58 sec and was set by Stuart Marston (UK) towed by a team of eight rowers from the Imperial College Boat Club, in Dorney Lake, Windsor, UK, on the set of Guinness World Records – Smashed, on 10 March 2009.

Fastest 100m by a pantomime horse (team – female)

Samantha Kavanagh (the front) and Melissa Archer (the rear) (both UK) completed a distance of 100m remaining inside their pantomime horse costume for the entire race in a time of 18.13 sec at an event organized by the advertising agency Claydon Heeley Jones Mason at Harrow School, Harrow-on-the Hill, Middlesex, UK, on 18 August 2005.

Fastest 10m balancing cue on chin

The fastest 10m balancing a cue on chin is 3.02 seconds, achieved by Ashrita Furman, (USA) at Jamaica high school track, Jamaica, New york, USA on 30 August 2009. Ashrita balanced a pool cue on the chin while carrying out the record attempt. The length of the pool cue was 58.25 in and weighed 500g.