Editing Guinness World Records (section)

===List of discontinued Guinness World Records===
Over its history, numerous world record categories have been discontinued. This list may include that the record poses a threat to health or the environment.{{incomplete list|date=October 2023}}
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!Reason to discontinue
!Record holder
!Last appearance
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Record name|The highest score achieved on Times Tables Rock Stars in one minute is 245
Where|Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Record holder|Shahid Akhter (UK)
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Michael K. |date=1 October 2011 |title=Claim to World Record for 'Balloonfest '86' Is Not All Hot Air: Michael K. Mcintyre's Tipoff |url=https://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/2011/10/claim_to_world_record_for_ball.html |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=The Plain Dealer |language=en |location=cleveland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Chris |date=24 June 2023 |title=Where Truth Ends and Fake News Begins on Cleveland's 1986 Balloonfest: Letter from the Editor |url=https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/06/where-truth-ends-and-fake-news-begins-on-clevelands-1986-balloonfest-letter-from-the-editor.html |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=cleveland |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
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|Largest audience at a [[camel wrestling]] festival (and other controversial animal sports)
|Concerns with animal welfare
|The 1994 Camel Wrestling Festival in [[Selçuk|Selçuk, Turkey]] had an audience of 20,000.
|2010
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|Fastest journey around the world by car
|Speed limits
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1996
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|Fastest [[Yodeling|yodel]]
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|In February 1992, a German yodeler named Thomas Scholl hit 22 tones in one second, 15 of which were [[falsetto]].
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|Heaviest pets
|Animal welfare. Encouraged people to over-feed their pets
|The winner for heaviest cat, Himmy, had to be transported in a wheelbarrow and weighed {{cvt|21.3|kg|lboz}} upon his death from respiratory failure in 1986.
| style="text-align: center;" | 1998
|<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=60 Years on, the Categories That Guinness World Records No Longer Monitors |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/8/60-years-on-the-categories-that-guinness-world-records-no-longer-monitors-393758 |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=Guinness World Records}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Jowit |first=Juliette |date=19 July 2008 |title=Junk Food Diet Fuels Epidemic of Pet Obesity |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jul/20/animalwelfare.animalbehaviour |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>
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|Hunger strikes and fasting
|Health concerns
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|<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Kate |date=26 March 2021 |title=Guinness World Records That Are No Longer Accepted |url=https://www.grunge.com/366744/guinness-world-records-that-are-no-longer-accepted/ |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=Grunge |language=en-US}}</ref>
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|Untimed [[gluttony]]
|Health concerns
|The 1955 edition declared the fastest time to eat an ox was 42 days, completed in 1880 by Germany's Johann Ketzler. A total of 43 gluttony records were discontinued in 1989, with just greatest omnivore remaining for historic value ([[Michel Lotito]] consumed chandeliers, bicycles, television sets, and a Cessna light aircraft). Though Guinness was not aware of anyone dying while attempting the records, a representative said "they are simply gross".<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 June 2022 |title=Guinness to Drop Gluttony Records |url=https://apnews.com/article/70f238e617e728163a0c23f0f0ee429 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606172642/https://apnews.com/article/70f238e617e728163a0c23f0f0ee4291 |archive-date=6 June 2022 |access-date=14 October 2024 |website=AP News}}</ref>
| style="text-align: center;" | 1989
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|Largest penny pyramid
|Penny shortages
|In 1984 the award went to two preteens from [[Arizona]] named Marc Edwards and Ben Schlimme, Jr. who built a structure of 104,000 pennies.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 September 1987 |title=Humble Pesos Rise in Mighty Pyramid As Teen-ager Stacks His Way to Fame |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-humble-pesos-rise-in/157141057/ |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=Arizona Daily Star |pages=30}}</ref>
| style="text-align: center;" | 1984
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|Largest pie fight
|Wasteful. Food in record attempts to be used "for general consumption by humans"
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|<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gutoskey |first=Ellen |date=4 May 2022 |title=14 (Thankfully) Discontinued Guinness World Records |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/discontinued-guinness-world-records |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=Mental Floss |language=en-US}}</ref>
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|Longest kiss
|Dangers associated with sleep deprivation
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|2013
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Longest Kiss World Record Contest Was Discontinued, Guinness Explains Why |url=https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/longest-kiss-world-record-contest-was-discontinued-guinness-explains-why-4185928 |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=NDTV}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atwal |first=Sanj |date=6 July 2023 |title=Why Did We Deactivate the Longest Kiss World Record? |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/7/why-did-we-deactivate-the-longest-kiss-world-record-754853 |website=Guinness World Records}}</ref>
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|Longest time spent buried alive
|Unsafe
|In 1998, a "human mole" named Geoff Smith remained underground for 147 days in order to achieve the Guinness record and beat his mother's 101-day stint. Guinness denied the award for safety reasons, and Geoff stated "There are far more dangerous things in the book. There is a record for a man who eats cars."
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|<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Going Underground – What a Record! |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/229739.stm |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 January 1999 |title=Guinness Bury the Human Mole's Feat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-express-guinness-bury-the-human-mole/157145926/ |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=The Express |location=Glasgow |page=23 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Sam |date=13 December 1998 |title=The Underground Man |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-the-underground-man/157146372/ |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=The Observer |page=64 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
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|Longest time spent without sleeping
|Health concerns
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1974
|<ref name=":23">{{Cite web |last=Atwal |first=Sanj |title=What's the Limit to How Long a Human Can Stay Awake? And Why We Don't Monitor the Record |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/whats-the-limit-to-how-long-a-human-can-stay-awake-733188 |access-date=4 May 2024 |website=Guinness World Records}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=Zevely |first=Jeff |date=9 August 2022 |title=No Sleep for 12 Days! Roger Guy English Revisits His 1974 World Record |url=https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/zevely-zone/roger-guy-english-revisits-his-1974-world-record/509-a6bc3940-0b69-4e46-ab4d-89bbd5d77314 |access-date=13 January 2024 |website=[[KFMB-TV]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Keating |first=Sarah |date=18 January 2018 |title=The Boy Who Stayed Awake for 11 Days |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180118-the-boy-who-stayed-awake-for-11-days |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=BBC Future |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":02" />
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|Most beer drunk in an hour
|Health concerns
|Within 60 minutes, 23-year-old Jack Keyes drank 36 pints of beer. The feat occurred in 1969 in Northern Ireland.
| style="text-align: center;" | 1989
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|Most difficult tongue twister
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|The 1974 edition featured "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick".
|1974
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|Most greeting cards received by an individual
|Fear of overwhelming the postal system
|Young British brain cancer patient [[Craig Shergold]] set a record for receiving 33 million cards between 1989 and May 1991. However, due to an [[Email spoofing|email hoax]], the deluge of mail continued for more than a decade after Craig's recovery.<ref>{{Cite news |title='Get Well' Letter Idea Makes Family Sick 11 Years Later |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/get-well-letter-idea-makes-family-sick-11-years-later-1.292322 |access-date=14 October 2024 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 February 2001 |title=Caught Up in Chain Mail |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2001/feb/15/voluntarysector1 |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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|Most guitars smashed during a concert tour
|"Guitar welfare"
|[[Matt Bellamy|Matthew Bellamy]] of the English rock band [[Muse (band)|Muse]] wrecked 140 guitars during a tour in 2004.
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|Most sky lanterns released simultaneously
|Environmental concerns
|In May 2013, 15,185 sky lanterns were released in [[Iloilo City|Iloilo City, Philippines]] to promote world peace.
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|Most [[Tweets (Twitter)|tweets]] in a single second
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|There were 143,199 tweets sent in a second on 2 August 2013. It occurred as the [[Studio Ghibli]] film [[Castle in the Sky|''Castle in the Sky'']] aired on Japan television because of a tradition of tweeting the word ''balse'' as it is said on screen. The previous record of 33,388 was set during a different airing of the film.<ref name=":0" />
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|Video game high scores
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|Fastest violinist
|Difficulty in conclusively determining whether all musical notes have been sufficiently played (even when slowed down)
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| style="text-align: center;" | 2017
|<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q0WGQbJbso |title=Fastest Violin Player |language=en |access-date=23 November 2023 |people=Guinness World Records}} The pinned comment reads: "It's worth noting that this is no longer a category that our records team monitor – the record has been rested. Our records managers are no longer able to monitor fastest musician records as it has become impossible to judge the quality of the renditions, even when slowed down. In terms of monitoring the number of musical notes, it is not clear if all notes have been played fully."</ref>
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|Longest dreadlock
|Difficulty in determining if re-attachment of broken hair occurred
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|2006
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 October 2011 |title=Longest Dreadlock Record – Rested |url=http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Longest-Dreadlock-Record-Rested/BLOG/3083932/7691.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005033245/http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Longest-Dreadlock-Record-Rested/BLOG/3083932/7691.html |archive-date=5 October 2011 |access-date=14 October 2024 |website=Guinness World Records}}</ref>
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