The fastest Road 200m by an individual male inline speed skater is 16.209 seconds by Gregory Duggento (Italy) at Anyang, Korea, on 6 July 2006.
The fastest Track 10,000m by an individual male inline speed skater is 14:41.425 seconds by Bart Swings (Belgium) at Haining, China, on 18 September 2009.
The most flamenco taps by a male in one minute are 814 and were achieved by Jose’ Miguel Fernandez Pintado (Spain) on the set of Lo Show dei Record in Rome, Italy, on 1 April 2010. The record was part of the Italian TV series “Lo Show dei Record”
The fastest flamenco dancer in a minute is Rosario Varela (Spain), who attained 1,274 taps on the set of on the set of ‘Guinness World Records’, in Madrid, Spain, on 23 January 2009.
The fastest Road 200m by an individual female inline speed skater is 18.101 seconds by Jersy Puello (Colombia) at Haining, China, on 23 September 2009.
Takeo Sasano (Japan) correctly added 15 sets of three-digit numbers flashed on the screen in 1.83 seconds at All Japan Soroban Championships in Yasu-shi, Shiga-ken, Japan, on 8 August 2010. The time begins when the first three-digit number is flashed on the screen and ends when the last number is flashed. The skill is in memorising these numbers then adding them. The competitor has then 5 seconds to write the answer. At Mr Sasano’s attempt, 15 numbers were flashed up in just 1.83 seconds –
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The fastest goal scored in the Premier League by a substitute is six seconds by Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark) playing for Arsenal against Tottenham Hotspur on 22 December 2007.
British Airways Concorde took 2 hrs 52 mins 59 secs to travel the 6,035 km (3,750 miles) between New York (JFK airport) and London (Heathrow) on 7 February 1996, breaking its own record set in April 1990 by one and a half minutes. The plane, piloted by Captain Leslie Scott (UK), averaged over 2,011 km/h (1,250 mph).
The flight record is 1 hr 54 mins 56.4 secs by USAF Major James V. Sullivan, and Major Noel F. Widdifield, flying a Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird eastwards on 1 September 1974. The average speed for the New York–London stage of 5,570.80 km (3,461.53 miles) was 2,908.02 km/h (1,806.96 mph). The speed only slowed to refuel once from a specially-modified KC-135 refuelling tanker aircraft. The aircraft then went on display at Farnborough Air Show for one week – the first time the secret plane had been
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The fastest time to complete the game of Operation was 21.87 seconds achieved by Maharoof Decibels (India) at the Guinness World Records Pavilion in Global Village, Dubai, UAE, on 28 November 2008.