…and other weird achievements that rhyme with “-apper.”
CLAPPER. Kent French has beaten his own hand-clapping speed record several times. It’s currently 721 claps in one minute—about 12 per second. Navneet Singh of India set the record for clapping with one hand in 2007. Number of single-handed claps: 284 in one minute.
SNAPPER. Scott Woodson, a teenager from Mountville, Pennsylvania, developed a way to manipulate his joints so that every finger snap becomes three snaps. Woodson holds the record for finger-snapping, with 162 snaps in 10 seconds.
SLAPPER. At a 2009 event for the World Record Appreciation Society (an organization whose members set mundane records), a man named Lawson Clarke took a record 46 slaps to the face, from 46 different people, in one minute.
RED SNAPPER. In 1996 Doc Kennedy was fishing in Port Fourchon, Louisiana when he caught a 50 lb., 4 oz., 41-inch red snapper—the largest one on record.
GIFT WRAPPER. Ann Erickson of Utah won the 2009 “Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper” contest for her speed and accuracy in wrapping a toy helicopter, jigsaw puzzle, bicycle, and sailboat.
RAPPER. Twista, who had a #1 hit in 2004 with the rapid-fire rap song “Slow Jamz,” made Guinness World Records in 1992 for fastest rapper, able to enunciate 11.2 syllables per second.
CRAPPER. Avant-garde artist Michelle Hines decided in 1995 that she wanted to produce the largest poop possible. Working with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Hines ate a fiber-rich diet and took fiber supplements for a week before finally producing—on a bowling alley that donated its floor for the event—a turd measuring 26 feet long, the entire length of Hines’ digestive tract. (To prevent any premature evacuations, Hines wore a “plug.”)
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