Guide to record formats

Suggesting a new record title can be exciting and your chance to be creative. However, don't forget that all of our records must adhere to our record breaking criteria; breakable, measurable, standardisable, verifiable and measured by a single superlative.

As such all our records are categorised by a record format.

We have an extensive number of established record formats proven to meet our recordbreaking criteria and have categorised these below for you to refer to. This list of record formats< will provide you with some guidance on the type of records we can monitor when suggesting a new record title. Unfortunately, if your idea does not fall under one of these categories it will most likely mean we do not monitor it.

Our record formats are regularly reviewed and updated.

Art

• Largest/longest painting
• Largest/longest drawing
• Largest/longest mural
• Largest/longest collage
• Largest sculpture made of ‘x’
• Largest mosaic made of ‘x’
• Most contributions to ‘x’
• Largest X word/sentence

Animals

• Anatomy
  • Tallest
  • Shortest
  • Longest
  • Anatomy
    • Tallest
    • Shortest
    • Longest
    • Fastest time over a distance
    • Most in 'x' time

    Audio records

    • Loudest
      • Individual
      • Crowd
      • Vocal
      • On an instrument
      • Vocal
      • On an instrument

      Big stuff

      • Large manufactured items (Large replicas of existing items)
        • Tallest item
        • Heaviest item
        • Longest outstretched item
        • Large civil engineering projects (walkways, bridges, cable cars)
        • Large buildings

        Careers

        • Longest careers
        • Youngest professional /oldest professional