Domino Toppling World Records

The Rules

The record is for the most dominoes toppled in a chain reaction. The pushover must start from a single point. Once the chain reaction ends, the attempt is over. It is not important how many dominoes were set up - just the number of dominoes which fall counts.

The Records (Teams)

number	team	date and venue
11 111	Bob Speca (USA)	Dec 1974
13 832	six students of the University of Washington	6 June 1975, Seattle, USA
15 000	Bob Speca (USA)	Winter 1976
22 221	Bob Speca (USA)	Spring 1976, Philadelphia, USA
33 266	Michael Cairney and team (Great Britain)	30 March 1977, London, Great Britain
50 000	Bob Speca (USA)	21 June 1977, Philadelphia, USA
55 555	Bob Speca (USA)	22 Oct 1977, Philadelphia, USA
97 500	Bob Speca (USA)	9 June 1978, New York, USA
135 215	John Wickham and Erez Klein (USA)	17 April 1979, Wilmette, USA
169 713	Michael Cairney (Great Britain)	9 June 1979, Poughkeepsie, USA
255 389	Alistair Howden and team	1 July 1979, Auckland, New Zealand
255 389	John Wickham and Erez Klein (USA)	24 Aug 1980, Hakone, Japan
281 581	Klaus Friedrich (Germany)	2 Jan 1984, Fürth, Germany
755 836	Weijers Domino Productions Theme: The Netherlands	27 Dec 1986, Lisse, Netherlands
1 382 101	Weijers Domino Productions Theme: European Community	2 Jan 1988, Minimundus, Rosmalen, Netherlands
1 605 757	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Visionland"	28 Aug 1998, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2 472 480	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Europe Without Borders"	5 Nov 1999, Zuidlaren, Netherlands
2 751 518	Team from China and Japan "Challenge Domino 2000"	31 Dec 1999, Beijing, China
2 977 678	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Reaction"	3 Nov 2000, Zuidlaren, Netherlands
3 407 535	Team from China, Japan and South Korea	3 Dec 2000, Beijing, China
3 540 562	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Bridging the World"	16 Nov 2001, Maastricht, Netherlands
3 847 295	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Expressions for Millions"	15 Nov 2002, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
3 992 397	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Challenge"	12 Nov 2004, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
4 002 136	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Domino Theatre of Eternal Stories"	18 Nov 2005, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
4 079 381	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Music in Motion"	17 Nov 2006, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
4 345 027	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "Breaking more World Records than ever"	14 Nov 2008, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
4 491 863	Weijers Domino Productions Domino Day "The World in Domino"	13 Nov 2009, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

The Records (Solo)

number	record holder	date and venue	Championship Domino Toppling Book Book by Bob Speca, professional domino display artist and world record breaker Order book at amazon.com, from the UK: Order book at amazon.co.uk
11 111	Bob Speca (USA)	Dec 1974
15 000	Bob Speca (USA)	Winter 1976
22 221	Bob Speca (USA)	Spring 1976, Philadelphia,USA
50 000	Bob Speca (USA)	21 June 1977, Philadelphia, USA
55 555	Bob Speca (USA)	22 Oct 1977, Philadelphia, USA
97 500	Bob Speca (USA)	9 June 1978, New York, USA
169713	Michael Cairney (Great Britain)	9 June 1979, Poughkeepsie, USA
281 581	Klaus Friedrich (Germany)	27 Jan 1984, Fürth, Germany
303 621	Ma Li Hua (China)	16 Aug 2003, Singapore
321 197	Liu Yang (China) VIDEO	31 December 2011, Beijing

Human Mattress Domino

Human mattress domino records became popular in 2009. We have compiled a special list of human mattress domino world record attempts.

Other Toppling Records

Bricks: On 17 January 2004, at the opening of the Weser tunnel in Germany, a brick toppling record was set when approximately 1,500 volunteers built a line of bricks (weighing 2 kg each) from Bremerhaven to Nordenham, a distance of almost 27 km [16.78 miles]. 250,000 bricks were set and toppled successfully. This event was named "Falling Stones".

Books: Organized by the Spessart Book Shop in Bad Orb (Germany), 7000 books fell in a chain reaction on 26 May 2002.

CD Cases: The record for toppling CD cases was set on by Klaus Peter Beier (Germany) who toppled 11,127 CD cases on 5 February 2017 in Paderborn, Germany VIDEO

Coins: 12,349, at TACS Odaiba Studio, Koto-ku, Tokyo, on 22 November 2009

Video cassettes: 13,000 VHS cassettes were toppled on 14 August 1995 in Rastatt, Germany.

Bales of straw: 700 straw bales fell on 5 July 2007 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Mousetraps: 865, Lakeshore Hotel, Hsin Chu City, Taiwan on 20 December 2010 VIDEO

Highest climbing dominoes: At Domino Day 2008, the line of falling dominoes "climbed" up to 11.52 m.

Largest toppled domino: The largest domino ever toppled in a chain starting with a regular-sized domino measured 8 m tall. Based on the scientific results by J.M.J van Leeuwen, a 10-step chain was set which finally toppled the big domino on National Dutch Science Quiz on 30 January 2013.
previous record: 6.4 m x 1.2 m x 3.2 m, constructed by Stefan Schöppers (Netherlands), 7 August 2009 in Holten, Netherlands DETAILS, VIDEO

More web pages about domino tumbling:
Domino F/X,
Mike Perruci's web site,
Anno Domino 2000,
Japan Domino Association (in Japanese language),
Power Domino (in Japanese language),
Japanese / Korean domino toppling site,
Domino Land,
Domino Net (in Chinese language),
Dominoday.nl (in Dutch / English language)

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