Michelle Lesco, seen here sawing through ribs in a recent competition, set a world record at a pasta-eating challenge in Phoenix on Monday.
Michelle Lesco of Tucson
Sept. 18, 2017
26.69 seconds at Oregano's in Socttsdale, Ariz.
96 Guinness World Records set in Arizona
Guinness World Records set by Arizonans or in Arizona. According to guinnessworldrecords.com, "Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online." These are based on the best information we could find as of June 6, 2018. Many professional sports records were not included.
Fastest time to eat a bowl of pasta
Longest journey in Minecraft
Minecraft and Kurt J. Mac
Kurt J. Mac
By April 2015, he had walked 2,097,152 blocks in Minecraft.
Longest wheelie by a skid loader
Jake Hatch
July 28, 2012
71.78 feet
Taylor Rodeo Grounds, Snowflake, Arizona
Most toxic insect venom
Produced by Pogonomyrmex maricopa, a stinging species of harvester ant native to Arizona.
Fastest motorized log
A car built from a log? This one probably isn't quite big enough.
Brian Reid Sr.
January 20, 2016
76.625 kph (47.64 mph)
HGTV Canada’s Timber Kings at the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona.
Largest mobile store
12 ft, 6 in. in height; 39 ft., 3 in. in length and 7 ft., 11.75 in. wide. Owned by Fahme Salameh in Phoenix.
Longest journey by motorcycle in a single country
Danell Lynn, of Phoenix
September 19, 2014
78,214.118 km (48,600 miles)
Danell rode through all 48 of the continental United States.
Largest serving of salsa
This falls quite short of being the largest serving of salsa. Photo taken January 16, 2004. Photo by Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star.
Arizona Hemophilia and El Sol Foods
March 7, 2014
7,308 lbs.
Gilbert, Arizona
Most bigamous marriages
104 by Giovanni Vigliotto, aka Fred Jipp and Nikolai Peruskov, between 1949 and 1981. Convicted in Phoenix for fraud and bigamy March 28, 1983. Died 1991.
Most selfies taken in one hour
Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat take a selfie February 21, 2015, at McKale Center in Tucson, Ariz., but just one. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Most self-portrait photographs taken in one hour
Patrick Peterson
Jan. 27, 2015
1,449 selfies
Deer Valley High School, Glendale, Arizona
Most likes for a cat on Facebook
Grumpy Cat (real name Tardar Sauce) with 8,759,819 likes as of May 3, 2017. She lives in Morristown, Arizona.
Fastest time to produce a comic book
Shawn Demumbrum and Jesse Criscione
Jan. 25, 2014
11 hours, 15 minutes, 38 seconds
Amazing Arizona Comic Con, Phoenix, Arizona
Fastest 100 miles ultra distance (women)
13 hours, 45 minutes, 49 seconds by Gina Slaby Dec. 10-11, 2016, at the Desert Solstice Invitational ultra-distance track meet in Phoenix.
Largest collection of interlocking plastic brick sets
This is just an example, not the record. Children dig through legos looking for parts at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library, 7800 N. Schisler Drive in Marana, Ariz., January 4, 2014. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
Kyle Ugone
July 23, 2011
Complete LEGO® sets in a private collection: 1,091
Yuma, Arizona
Most potatoes launched in three minutes
This shopper wasn't planning to launch the potatoes she picked up Friday, 22, 2010, in Picture Rocks, Ariz. Photo by A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
Cameron Ribail
May 7, 2014
Potatoes launched: 18
Fountain Hills High School, Fountain Hills, Arizona
Longest duration Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight
336 hours, 22 minutes by Zephyr, a High-Altitude, Long-Endurance (HALE) vehicle flying on lithium-sulphur batteries that are recharged using solar power, Yuma, July 23, 2010.
Most consecutive backflips on a jetski
Lee Stone
Oct. 12, 2014
36 backflips
The Crazy Horse Ground, Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Wettest desert
Sonora Desert rain fall is 4.7-11.8 inches annually.
Fewest golf strokes to complete a marathon distance
The record wasn't broken here. This is the golf course with Ritz Carlton, Dove Mountain in Marana, AZ. Photo taken Thursday, August 27, 2015. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
Jake Sand
May 28, 2009
494 strokes
Desert Mountain Golf Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona
Largest tattoo machine
51 inches tall, achieved by Ray Webb of NeoTat, Burnaby Q. Orbax and Sweet Pepper Klopek of the Monsters of Schlock at the Hell City Tattoo Festival in Phoenix Aug. 30, 2015.
Most money raised in 24 hours by the sale of packaged cakes (cookies)
Those Girl Scout cookies practically sell themselves. Taken 03/13/2002. Tucson Citizen photo. (PHOTO: NORMA JEAN GARGASZ)
Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus - Pine Council
Jan. 31, 2015
$389,738.26 raised by selling 88,756 boxes
Phoenix, Arizona
Largest collection of advertising statues
8,917 items achieved by Michael Pollack in Mesa, Arizona, Sept. 28, 2017.
Largest Soul Train dance
This isn't the Goodyear attempt at the record. In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, photo, Ryerson University students in Toronto unofficially break the Guinness World Record for the largest soul train dance. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Galit Rodan)
Goodyear Ballpark
July 4, 2014
426 participants
Goodyear, Arizona
Longest Hot Wheels track
1,819 ft., 5.8 in. by Cody Lougee, Terence Rosen, Whitney Johnson, Josephine Sierra Luis Greer, Gary Lafreniere and Intuit - Tucson in Tucson Oct. 15, 2016. The track consisted of 2,047 track pieces.
Most pine boards broken in freefall
Ernie Torres
May 23, 2013
12 boards
Eloy, Skydive Arizona, Eloy Airport
Farthest basketball hook shot
The Harlem Globetrotters' new Spalding official game ball (Photo: Business Wire)
Big Easy Lofton of the Harlem Globetrotters
Nov. 3, 2014
61 feet, 4 inches
US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona
Longest cornhole shot
Austin Bower
March 7, 2015
110 feet
Cottonwood, Arizona
First sealed magnet finger implants
Steve Haworth in 2005
The Arizona-based body-modification pioneer created the implant with Jesse Jarrell and Todd Huffman.
Most expensive Batman memorabilia sold at auction
This Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 photo shows the Batmobile sitting in a private auto collection in North Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
1966 Batmobile
Jan. 19, 2013
$4,620,000
Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottdale, Arizona
Most inverted flat spins in an aircraft
98 by Spencer H. Suderman at Yuma International Airport/MCAS March 20, 2016.
Longest duration spinning a basketball on the nose
The Harlem Globetrotters' new Spalding official game ball (Photo: Business Wire)
Scooter Christensen of the Harlem Globetrotters
Nov. 5, 2015
7.7 seconds
Phoenix, Arizona
Longest “high-five” chain
3,473 participants by Fiesta Bowl and UnitedHealthcare in Avondale, Arizona, Nov. 30, 2016.
Most people turning their shirts inside out
Intel Corporation
Nov. 14, 2015
614 people
Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Largest game of freeze dance (no elimination)
390 participants by Guardian Life Insurance in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 10, 2017.
Most leapfrog jumps in one minute by a team of two
Michael Kremmel and Andrew MacLaren and by Brett Hileman and Nickolaus Bonner at the same event
April 15, 2011
57
Sun Angel Stadium of the Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona
Most standing ab wheel rolls on one minute (male)
27 by Alexander Lipay in Oro Valley, Arizona, Oct. 5, 2016.
Most hunger relief packages assembled simultaneously
Valley of the Sun United Way
Oct. 10, 2014
1,993 packages
Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona
Highest voltage bipolar Tesla coil
500,000 volts built by Henry Hurrass and demonstrated in Black Canyon City, Arizona, Nov. 21, 2015.
Fastest speed barefoot waterskiing (female)
Teresa L. Wallace
Nov. 16, 2006
154.63km/h (96.08 mph)
Firebird International Raceway, Chandler, Arizona
Fastest speed barefoot waterskiing (male)
Scott Pellaton
Nov. 1, 1989
218.44 kmh (135.74 mph)
Chandler, Arizona
Largest UFO convention
The 23rd International UFO Congress in Scottsdale, Arizona, Feb. 12-16, 2014. An average of 1,500 people attended events throughout the week.
Fastest speed for an outboard motorboat
No, it wasn't this motor that broke the record. Yamaha Marine Group today unveiled the boating industry's first V8 5.3-liter, four-stroke outboard motor, the Yamaha F350.
Bob Wartinger
Nov. 30, 1989
284.14 km/h (176.556 mph) in a Karelsen make hull powered by a 3.5 litre Evinrude outboard motor
Colorado River near Parker, Arizona
Highest combined prize money for WGC Match Play Championship
$8.5 million at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Marana, 2009
Longest greeting card exchange
Warren Nord and Thor Andersen
Jan. 1, 1987
The same Christmas card was exchanged every year from 1930-87, a total of 57 years.
Mesa, Arizona
Highest prize money for a WGC Match Play Championship
$1.4 million won by Geoff Ogilvy of Australia at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Marana, 2009.
Largest collection of model airplanes
This isn't the record, just an illustration. Former US Marine Irwin Gold makes balsa wood model airplanes at his northwest home.
John Kalusa
Dec. 1, 2002
5,737 wooden models created since 1936
The library of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona
Fastest speed on a butt board
65.24 mph by Darren Lott in Fountain Hills, Arizona Sept. 26, 1998
First aircraft, unmanned and powered by liquid hydrogen
Global Observer UAV
May 26, 2005
U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona
Tallest cactus (armless)
78 feet
Measured in April 1978 by Hube Yates in Cave Creek.
It was toppled in a windstorm in July 1986 at an estimated age of 150 years.
First identified impact crater
This undated image courtesy of Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA, shows an aerial view of Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Ariz. The world's best-preserved meteor impact site is an intriguing piece of natural history. Nearly a mile wide and over 550 feet deep, the crater isn't close to being the largest in the world _ Vredefort Dome in South Africa is over 180 miles wide _ but is impressive because limited erosion has left it virtually intact. (AP Photo/Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA.)
The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as Meteor Crater)
Northern Arizona, between Flagstaff and Winslow
Greatest distance cycled in 24 hours (paced)
Michael Secrest
April 26-27, 1990, at Phoenix Raceway
1,216.8 miles
First Dark Sky city
Flagstaff was named the first International Dark Sky City in 2001.
Most basketballs dribbled simultaneously - one person
Joseph Odhiambo
Aug. 15, 2000, in Mesa
6
Smallest aircraft
Bumble Bee II, designed and built by Robert H. Starr
Jan. 1, 1988
It was 2.69 m (8 ft 10 in) long, with a wing span of 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in), and weighed 179.6 kg (396 lb) empty.
Tempe, Arizona
Most back somersaults
Miguel Vásquez to Juan Vásquez
July 10, 1982 at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Tucson
A quadruple back
Shortest-period asteroid
This is not the same asteroid, but it's fun to look at. This is the asteroid Eros taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft shortly after orbital insertion on Feb. 14, 2000. (AP Photo/NASA)
Asteroid 2004 JG6
May 13, 2004
Asteroid 2004 JG6 orbits the Sun in 184.46 days.
It was discovered by Brian Skiff (USA) at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Longest wall of fire
MCAS Yuma
March 14, 2009
3,102.35 metres (10,178.3 ft) long
Created by the Marine Corps Community Services (USA) during the 2009 MCAS Yuma Air Show in Yuma, Arizona.
Longest running TV commercial
Thank you Discount Tire Company
Jan. 1, 1975
The commercial involves an old lady throwing an unwanted tyre into the glass window of Discount Tires, while the voice-over suggests that if a customer is not happy with their tires, then please return them...Thank you.
The commercial is still being shown.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Largest dish ever washed
Manning Selvage and Lee PR
Feb. 1, 2008
10 feet in diameter using Dawn Direct Foam
Phoenix, Arizona
Fastest human calculator
Taken April 20, 2004.
Scott Flansburg, of Phoenix, Arizona
April 27, 2000
He correctly added a randomly selected two-digit number (38) to itself 36 times in 15 seconds without the use of a calculator.
Record achieved in Wembley, England.
Most Caesar salads made in one hour
JUNE 13, 2003.
Bob Blumer
Aug. 7, 2010
108
Yuma Territorial Prison in Yuma, Arizona
Last Indian warrior to surrender
Citizen photo Geronimo
Geronimo
Sept. 4, 1886
Leader of the Chiricahua Apaches
Skeleton Canyon in the Peloncillo Mountains on the Arizona-New Mexico border.
Most water moved with a mop in one minute
Stan Zylowski
Sept. 8, 2013
2.19 gallons, using a Quickie Automatic sponge mop
GMDC Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
Highest flight by solar-powered spyplane (UAV)
This isn't the plane that broke the record mentioned, merely an illustration. The Solar Impulse plane takes off on a multi-city trip across the United States from Moffett Field NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Zephyr
July 23, 2010
70,740 ft
U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona
Largest Indian reservation in the United States
Navajo
Jan. 1, 2004
15,000 square miles
Northeastern Arizona and Northwestern New Mexico
Farthest distance to move a bridge
London Bridge in Lake Havasu City is shown on March 2, 2007. (Cronkite News Service Photo/Samantha M. Novick)
London Bridge
Jan. 1, 1962
5,300 miles
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Largest glove / pair of gloves
Not the record breaker, these are Gap men's brown deer-suede gloves with Thinsulate lining for extra warmth. $24.50, shot in the Star studio on Tuesday, December 6, 2005.
Big Time Products
Sept. 7, 2013
12 feet, 5.6 inches by 8 feet, 8 inches
GMDC Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
Largest free-flying head-down parachuting formation (female)
This is not Guinness World Record. Skydivers attempt to set a record of a 300-person freefall formation during the first attempt of three Monday, Dec. 9, 2002, above Eloy, Ariz. (AP Photo/Go Fast Sports, Norman Kent)
An international team
Nov. 26, 2010
41 parachutists
Eloy, Arizona
Longest flight by solar-powered spyplane (UAV)
This isn't the plane that broke the record mentioned, merely an illustration. The Solar Impulse plane takes off on a multi-city trip across the United States from Moffett Field NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Zephyr
July 23, 2009
336 hours, 22 minutes
U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona
Most times for a golfer to score his/her age and below
The record wasn't broken here. This is the golf course with Ritz Carlton, Dove Mountain in Marana, AZ. Photo taken Thursday, August 27, 2015. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
Kermit Dannehl
Aug. 6, 2007
1138 times between 1992 and 2007
Phoenix, Arizona
Most participants in a swimming relay in one hour (60 ft pool)
These are not the record breakers, this is meant as an illustration. Australia's Melanie Schlanger, center, and United States' Allison Schmitt, right, compete in the women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Saturday, July 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Foundation for Aquatic Safety and Training (FAST) and its founder, Joseph Zemaitis
Aug. 25, 2012
281 participants
Phoenix, Arizona
Fastest propeller-driven boat
Problem Child driven by Daryl Ehrlich
Nov. 22, 2009
420.0 km/h (260.98 mi/h; 226.78 knots)
Firebird Raceway near Phoenix, Arizona
Farthest distance run in 12 hours on a track (men)
A high school track.
Zach Bitter
Dec. 14, 2013
101.771 miles
Phoenix, Arizona
Largest marquee
Barrett-Jackson Auction Company
Jan. 18, 2014
435,656.95 square feet
Scottsdale, Arizona
Longest leg hair
Jason Allen
May 25, 2015
8.84 inches
Measured at Reid Park, Tucson, Arizona.
Largest storage facility for aircraft
Navy P-3 (A and C models) sit in storage at AMARC, also known as the "boneyard."
The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)
1,052 Hectares or 2,600 acres
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona.
Largest lens
This is not a lens, but this mirror was made at the same lab. Roger Angel, University of Arizona Regents' Professor of astronomy and optical sciences, left, talks with Daily Star reporter Tom Beal about the 8.4 meter mirror for the LSST telescope at UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, Tuesday September 2, 2008 in Tucson, Ariz.
5.99 feet in diameter
Feb. 27, 2003
Team led by Thomas Peck, Optics Shop of the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Largest binocular telescope
Photo of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory on Mount Graham on September 3, 2009.
March 2008
It comprises two identical telescopes, each with an 8.4 m (27 ft 6 in) diameter main mirror. Working in tandem, they have an equivalent light-gathering power of a single mirror 11.8 m (38 ft 8 in) across.
Mount Graham, Arizona
Largest solar telescope
Kitt Peak National Observatory, 56 miles from Tucson, has the world's largest solar telescope.
McMath-Pierce Telescope
Jan. 1, 1962
Light from the sun is collected via a 152 m long (498 ft) slanted shaft,, which directs sunlight on to a 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) mirror, 50 m (164 ft) below ground. It forms an 85 cm (33 in) wide high-resolution image of the sun.
Kitt Peak, Arizona
Largest gathering of major telescopes
Telescopes on Kitt Peak. The tallest one is the 4 meter telescope.
Kitt Peak National Observatory
March 19, 2014
24 major telescopes
Kitt Peak, Arizona
First woman to fly an airplane with her feet
Jessica Cox steers the yoke with her foot as she flies a single engine Ercoupe plane in San Manuel, Ariz., Thursday Jan. 8, 2009.
Jessica Cox
Oct. 10, 2008
Cox, who was born without arms, holds a Sport Pilot certificate, which qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet.
Cox is from Tucson, Arizona
Most sunshine
Yuma, Arizona
Sun shines an average of 91 percent of the time possible.
Fastest half marathon on crutches (one leg)
Larry Chloupek
Jan. 18, 2015 at the Rock ’N’ Roll Arizona Half Marathon in Phoenix
2 hours, 27 minutes, 30 seconds
Most Carolina Reaper chilis eaten in one minute
Gregory Foster
Nov. 13, 2016 at the Arizona Hot Sauce Expo in Tempe
120 grams
Most candles extinguished by a whip in one minute
Adam Winrich
March 13, 2014, at the Arizona Renaissance Faire Park
102
Most straws crack whipped from the mouth in one minute
Adam Winrich and Dakota Granados
March 13, 2014 at the Arizona Renaissance Faire Park
53
Most roses cut from a person’s mouth using bolas (boleadoras) in two minutes
Adam Winrich and Dakota Granados
March 10, 2015, at the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Gold Canyon
45
Most bottles caught with a whip in one minute
Adam Winrich (assisted by Dakota Granados)
March 10, 2015, at the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Gold Canyon
18
Most golf balls hit into a target area from the knees in 12 hours
2,575 by Brian Lovegren in Buckeye, Arizona, on Dec. 20, 2011
Largest meteor crater in the Americas
This undated image courtesy of Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA, shows an aerial view of Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Ariz. The world's best-preserved meteor impact site is an intriguing piece of natural history. Nearly a mile wide and over 550 feet deep, the crater isn't close to being the largest in the world _ Vredefort Dome in South Africa is over 180 miles wide _ but is impressive because limited erosion has left it virtually intact. (AP Photo/Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA.)
Coon Butte or Barring Crater near Winslow, Arizona, is 4,150 feet wide and 575 feet deep.
Thickest strand of hair
0.0188 inches from the beard of Micah Dyer measured at JDB Ltd. Phoenix, June 7, 2013.
Highest cantilevered glass-bottomed skywalk
People walk on the new Hualapai Tribe's Skywalk on March 20, 2007 in near Kingman, Ariz. The Tribe has constructed a $30 million glass-bottomed walk way that reaches over the Grand Canyon's edge 70 feet. Photo by Dean Knuth/Arizona Daily Star
Grand Canyon Skywalk opened March 28, 2007.
Largest monster truck
32 feet long made by Brad and Jen Campbell of Big Toys Racing measured at Last Stop in White Hills, Arizona, July 10, 2014.
Largest game of Red Light, Green Light
January, 2015
1,136 fourth and fifth-grade students the newly refurbished Super Bowl XLIX Legacy Field at Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Phoenix.
Organised by the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, Playworks and UnitedHealthcare.
The winner of the record-setting game was Miguel Morales from Papago Elementary School in the Creighton School District.
Farthest distance covered in 12 hours (female)
Camille Herron
92.66 miles at the Desert Solstice track meet in Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 9-10, 2017
Most golf ball catches in one minute
12
Tony Finau and Steven Tinoco on behalf of 18Birdies, at Troon North Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., Feb. 5, 2018.
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