According to Cisco, South Korea has the best broadband service in the world, with an average download throughput of 33.5 megabits per second – nearly three times the speed of second-place Hong Kong – an average upload throughput of 17 megabits per second – more than twice that of Hong Kong, and has 100 percent broadband penetration.
The fastest time recorded by a rider in an Isle of Man TT Superbike TT race (6 laps) is 1:46.07.16 by John McGuinness (UK) on a 1000 HM Plant Honda on 8 June 2009. See: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/sport/isle-of-man-sport/superbike_mcguinness_secures_15th_tt_victory_1_1792910
George Meegan (UK) walked 30,608 km (19,019 miles) in a journey that took him from the southernmost point of South America, at Ushuaia, Argentina, to the northernmost point of North America, at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, USA, taking 2,426 days from 26 January 1977 to 18 September 1983. He thus completed the first traverse of the Americas and the western hemisphere.
The fastest knockout on the Boxing game in Wii Sports (Nintendo, 2006) took just 8 seconds and was achieved by Tim Stoddard (UK) on 1 Feb 2009. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The fastest lap recorded by an individual rider at the Isle of Man TT in the TT Senior class is 17’12.30 by John McGuinness (UK) on a Honda CBR1000RR in 2009.
Mario Karter Fred Bugmann completed a time trial lap on the Ghost Valley 2 circuit on Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii in 19.777 seconds in Aruja, São Paulo, Brazil, on 11 June 2009. The Ghost Valley 2 circuit originally appeared in Super Mario Kart, the first game in the series, for SNES. By comparison, the fastest time trial lap on the Ghost Valley 2 circuit in Super Mario Kart is a mere 12.93 seconds, set by John Ohab (USA) in Washington, USA, on 9 August 2008.
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High-speed racer Alex T Trammell clocked a lap time of 1 min 0.757 sec on the High difficulty level of the PlayStation adaptation of Namco’s classic arcade title Ridge Racer in Maple Valley, Washington, USA, on 21 June 2005. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The highest speed attained by a manned superconducting magnetically levitated (maglev) train is 581 km/h (361 mph) by the MLX01, operated by the Central Japan Railway Company and Railway Technical Research Institute, on the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, on 2 December 2003. Magnetically levitated (‘Maglev’) vehicles harness the power of magnetism to lift them off the ground and propel them forward, using elecromagnets made of superconductive metals. Instead of running on conventional metal tracks, they run on specially constructed ‘guideways’. Because there
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Jan Skorkovsky of Prague, Czechoslovakia kept a football up while he travelled a distance of 42.195 km (26.219 miles) for the Prague City Marathon in 7 hr 18 min 55 sec on 8 July 1990. If the participant lost control of the ball, he had to return to the last point where the ball had remained under control and restart from there.
The fastest marathons by a married couple on the North and South Poles (aggregate) was 34 hr 55 min 08 sec by Krishna Chigurupati and Uma Chigurupati (both India) who ran the Antarctic Ice Marathon together on 15 December 2010 and the North Pole Marathon on 8 April 2011. Krishna, the husband, finished the Antarctic in 8 hr 27 min 26 sec, while Uma completed the race in 8 hr 16 min 22 sec. The couple completed the North Pole together in a time of
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