Rules and regulations

Will your record proposal be accepted?

Before you proceed with your record proposal, check if your idea is likely to be accepted. Remember: the record must be quantifiable, verifiable, absolute, not too specific or specialized, of international interest, an absolute superlative and breakable.

We recommend that if you are making a claim/proposal for what you believe to be a new category, you take the time to review the following checklist. It gives examples of records that we will accept, and ones we would not, in a number of areas that are very popular.

Please note that if your suggestion is clearly one that we list as being a category we do not accept, but you proceed with making a claim, we reserve the right not to reply.

Is your proposed claim/record...

o a 'first'?

o based on the fact that you possess a unique talent or are the only person to be able to do something?

o based on the fact that you possess a unique object, or the only object of its kind?

o based on your age?

o based on your nationality, race or religion?

o based on your disability and/or medical condition?

o about poetry or art?

o based on an animal’s weight or breed?

o for driving between two points in the least amount of time, or covering the greatest distance in a motor vehicle in a set time?

o for the smallest example of a particular item or object?

o for the largest example of an everyday object?

o regarding chain letters/emails or collecting greetings cards, business cards or compliment slips?

o that you claim to have the most degrees, professional qualifications or best examination results?

Once you have checked your claim against the above and feel that it is of interest to us here at Guinness World Records*, please click the "Next" button below.