Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Aayush Kaustubh Joshi (born on August 14, 2012) of Maharashtra, India, set a record for solving the maximum number of Rubik’s cubes while being blindfolded. He solved ten types of Rubik’s cubes including 2 x 2 x 2, 3 x 3 x 3, 4 x 4 x 4, Pyraminx and Skewb in 8 minutes and 11 seconds (while being blindfolded) at the age of 8 years, 7 months and 22 days, as confirmed on June 30, 2021.

Vanya (born on June 19, 2018) of Uttar Pradesh, India, set a record for identifying the maximum number of countries by seeing their individual outline maps. She identified 195 countries by seeing their individual outline maps in 4 minutes, 53 seconds and 55 milliseconds at the age of 2 years, 11 months and 20 days, as confirmed on June 8, 2021.

Arnesh V (born on September 24, 2013) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for the fastest blindfolded recitation of the names of spacecraft in chronological order launched by India. He recited the names of 111 spacecraft in chronological order launched by India in just 1 minute, 33 seconds, and 59 milliseconds while being blindfolded, at the age of 7 years, 8 months, and 8 days, as confirmed on June 1, 2021.

Janvi Mary Sam (born on April 24, 2002) of Kerala, India, set a record for drawing the maximum number of portraits of Bishops. She drew 30 pencil portraits of Bishops of Malankara Syrian Church from 1665 to 2021 on 15 A4 size sheets (2 portraits on each sheet), as confirmed on June 22, 2021.

Hari Murali (born on July 2, 2000) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for painting six famous personalities including Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Kamal Haasan, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Charlie Chaplin and Virat Kohli with a single hair strand, as confirmed on June 16, 2021.

Rishana A.K. (born on May 9, 2003) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for making a typographic portrait of Mahatma Gandhi within the map of India using words of his autobiography ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’ written in Malayalam, as confirmed on June 22, 2021.

Amala R.K. (born on January 15, 2004) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for singing a song while playing the keyboard from the opposite side with blindfolded eyes. She melodiously played and sang a Malayalam song on the keyboard from the opposite side while being blindfolded for 2 minutes and 42 seconds, as confirmed on July 5, 2021.

Ajay M. (born on July 31, 2000) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for painting 195 and pasting them on a single A3 size sheet. He painted the flags (each flag measuring 1.5 cm x 2.5 cm) of 195 UN recognised countries on a 2.5 cm width masking tape roll using acrylic paints, black and white gel pens and pasted them on a single A3 size white sheet, as confirmed on July 3, 2021.

Sujit Shankar Bhosale (born on August 19, 1988) of Maharashtra, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for voluntarily donating plasma 16 times from October 2020 to June 2021, as confirmed on June 23, 2021.

Chinju Varghese M. (born on May 23, 1989) of Kerala, India, set a record for using the maximum number of handwriting styles to write a sentence. Using a black pen, she wrote an English sentence ‘Nothing is Impossible’ on 24 A4 size sheets in 80 different and beautiful handwriting styles, as confirmed on June 24, 2021.