The fastest time for a relay team of 100 (50 men and 50 women) each swimming 1,000 m is 22 hr 48 min 43.10 sec at Volkspark, Dortmund, Germany, on 2-3 September 2006

55.61 Cameron van der Burgh (South Africa) Berlin, Germany 15 Nov 2009

25.25 Cameron van der Burgh (South Africa) Berlin, Germany 14 Nov 2009

The fastest time to blow a stamp 100 m is 3 min 3 sec, and was achieved by Christian Schäfer (Germany) at ASV Dachau in Dachau, Germany on 3 October 2010.

The fastest time to burst three balloons with the back is 12 seconds, set by Julia Gunthel, aka ‘Zlata’ (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records – Die Grossten Weltrekorde in Cologne, Germany, on 23 November 2007.

The fastest time for a team to construct a tower of 30 soft drink crates, with one member climbing to the top, is 2 min 20 sec, by Team Garmisch, of Garmisch Patenkirchen, Germany, on the set of Guinness – Die Show Der Rekorde in Munich, Germany on 23 September 1999.

The fastest time to laminate 100m of paper is 40.53 seconds, achieved on a GBC 8556HS Cyclone laminating system by Glenn S. Koepke, Mark Elman and Tony Mertlik of GBC Commercial Laminating Solutions Group at drupa in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 2 June 2008.

The fastest time for opening 300 bottles of beer by a team of three, is 1 min 47 sec, led by Alois Unertl, of the Unertl Brewery on the set of Guinness – Die Show Der Rekorde, in Munich, Germany, on 2 April 1999. In relay style, each team member opened 100 bottles and when finished, passed the specially constructed opener for the next team member to begin more bottle-opening.

The fastest time to wallpaper 16 m² (172.2 ft²) is 6 min 38 sec achieved by Manfred Warmuth (Germany) in Cologne, Germany, on 23 February 2008.

The most torches extinguished in 30 seconds with the mouth is 39 and was achieved by Hubertus Wawra (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records – Ab India Todega in Mumbai, India, on 21 February 2011.