Fastest and
Largest Human Mattress Dominoes
On
October 20, 2010, 604 students and adults of Eisenhower Junior High School,
Taylorsville High School, RC Willey Home Furnishings, Serta Mattress Company,
and the City of Taylorsville, successfully toppled 604 mattresses in 21.43
seconds (or 28 mattresses toppled per-second) at Eisenhower Junior High
School in Taylorsville, Utah. This event set the WRS world record for
the Fastest Human Mattress Dominoes and broke the WRS and The Book
of Alternative Records (BAR) world record for the Largest Human Mattress
Dominoes.
This world record attempt was made possibly
by RC Willey Home Furnishings and Serta Mattress Company, who provided
620 twin-sized mattresses for the event. Following the event all of the
mattresses--which usually retail for $150--were offered to the general
public for only $100 each, with $10 from each sale donated to the non-profit
Huntsman Cancer Institute (which is a division of the University of Utah
Health Sciences). Within a week of this record attempt, RC Willey had
sold 100 mattresses and donated $1,000 to the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Also, Eisenhower students and faculty made an additional contribution
of $250 to the Huntsman Cancer Institute during this world record attempt.
Click HERE
to print a WRS Certificate (in PDF) for the Fastest Human Mattress Dominoes
event.
Click HERE
to print a WRS Photo Record (in PDF) for the Fastest Human Mattress Dominoes.
Click HERE
to print a WRS Certificate (in PDF) for the Largest Human Mattress Dominoes
event.
Click HERE
to view Eisenhower's "Largest Human Mattress Dominoes" record
on the website of The
Book of Alternative Records (BAR).
Note:
These records have been submitted for consideration and possible inclusion
in a future edition of Ripley's Believe
It Or Not.
WRS Rules for
the Fastest Human Mattress Dominoes record:
WRS lists eight rules for the Fastest Human
Mattress Dominoes record: 1) This record is based on the greatest number
of participants and mattresses that are toppled within a specific time
period during a particular event. 2) Each participant must be placed between
a mattress--such as participant, mattress, participant, mattress, and
so forth. 3) There can only be one participant to each mattress. 4) When
the event begins the first participant must fall back or lay down on the
mattress and when the mattress touches the next participant that person
must do the same thing and so forth. 5) One or more mattresses may be
used to topple one or more mattresses at the same time. 6) There is no
limit to the number of mattresses or participants that can be used. 7)
An audible start and finish signal recognized by all participants and
two independent judges must be recognized. 8) Two independent timekeepers
must time the event with stopwatches that are accurate to within 0.01
seconds.
WRS Rules for
the Largest Human Mattress Dominoes record:
WRS lists eight rules for the Largest Human
Mattress Dominoes record: 1) This record is based on the number of participants
and mattresses that are topple within a particular amount of time. 2)
Each participant must be placed between a mattress--such as participant,
mattress, participant, mattress, and so forth. 3) There can only be one
participant to each mattress. 4) When the event begins the first participant
must fall back or lay down on the mattress and when the mattress touches
the next participant that person must do the same thing and so forth.
5) One or more mattresses may be used to topple one or more mattresses
at the same time. 6) There is no limit to the number of mattresses or
participants that can be used. 7) An audible start and finish signal recognized
by all participants and two independent judges must be recognized. 8)
Two independent timekeepers must time the event with stopwatches that
are accurate to within 0.01 seconds.
Guinness
World Records Rules for the Largest Human Mattress Dominoes record:
Guinness World Records currently
lists (as of November 2010) their record for the Largest Human Mattress
Dominoes event as being held by 380 participants on Live! With Regis
and Kelly televison at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, in
New York, New York, USA, on 17 September 2010.
Also, Guinness World Records lists
five rules that must be followed for producing their record for the World's
Largest Human Mattress Dominoes. They are: 1) The mattresses must be placed
between participants; they must be lined up such as person - mattress
- person - mattress and so on. 2) Even thought the attempt is based on
the number of participants, the number of mattresses used for the attempt
must be provided to Guinness World Records .3) A loud start and
finish signal recognized by all participants must be used. Two experienced
timekeepers (e.g. from a local athletics club) must time the attempt with
stopwatches accurate to 0.01 seconds. 4) When the starting signal is given
the first participant must lay down on the mattress and when the mattress
touches the next person, the next person must do the same movement and
so on. 5) All participants must wear the costume for the entirety of the
attempt.
Advise for Future Guinness Record Breakers:
In 2009, Eisenhower Junior High School informed Guinness that it would
be attempting to break its Largest Human Mattress Dominoes record, after
which Guinness sent Eisenhower its five rules for the event (as listed
above). In November 2010, Eisenhower Junior High School requested Guinness
to consider its successful WRS world record attempt of October 20, 2010.
Unfortunately, Guinness then informed Eisenhower officials of an undisclosed
expectation that "the mattress dominoes topple one by one starting
with the first participant and continuing down the line. As shown in the
video [of Eisenhower's record attempt] many lines of dominoes were toppled
simultaneously, which does not satisfy this guideline or the true spirit
of a single domino attempt. We cannot, therefore, accept your attempt
as a record". In other words, what Guinness wanted and apparently
expected was that one single mattress toppled another single mattress
along a continuous line of mattresses, so that a single mattress was not
used to topple two or more mattresses at any one time--which Eisenhower
Junior High did in order to make its mattress "turns" inside
its school's gymnasium. Obviously, future record breakers should take
this additional expectation into consideration before attempting to break
this Guinness record.
News-Media
Links about this successful record attempt can be found at:
Newspapers
and Companies:
Taylorsville
Kearns Journal newspaper article (Salt Lake County, Utah)
Deseret
News newspaper photo (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Salt
Lake Tribune newspaper photo (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Salt
Lake Tribune newspaper article (Salt Lake City, Utah)
RC
Willey community events on-line webpage (Utah)
Television
Newscasts:
Granite
School District via YouTube
Fox
News (KSTU-Channel 13)
KSL
News (KSL-Channel 5)
KUTV
News (KUTV-Channel 2)
Photographs
of the World's
Largest Human Mattress Dominoes
October 20, 2010, Eisenhower Jr. High School
604 Mattresses toppled in 21.43 seconds!
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