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Beer Mat Flipping World Records & Videos

A lot of traffic actually comes to this website, with searches for the World Record of Beer Mat Flipping.  So I've decided to provide you with a quick shortlist of the current records as they stand for a beer mat flip.

How To Guide: Beer Mat Flipping

This is a short video showing you how to flip a beer mat or two.  The best thing is starting at one, and then increasing this each time trying to beat your previous record.  You need to know exactly how to flip a beer mat before you can beat a world record!

World Records for Beer Mat Flipping

With the recent increase of social media and video sharing, I encourage you to try and beat these world records and upload the videos into YouTube for validation.  Please note, there are strict rules and guidelines if you want to beat an official Guinness World Record.

1. Flipping the largest single stack

The Guiness World Record for flipping a single stack of beer mats is 112.  This was achieved by Mat Hand, ironically in 2001.  There is no available video to show this, but this is a huge achievement.

You will need to buy two stacks if you want a chance of beating that record, and large hands!  This video shows exactly how big a stack of 50 is.  Click here to buy beer mats on eBay.co.uk.

2. Blindfolded beer mat flipping

The same as flipping a large single stack but blindfolded.

The World Record was set by Jim Haysom (myself of course) at 45 beer mats in 2008, as seen in the video below. 

 

But this has since been beaten by Dean Gauld at a whopping 71 in 2009.  He currently is the Daddy!

3. Two handed beer mat flip simultaneous

Two stacks of beer mats and caught by two hands at the same time.  Ideally the stacks should be the same height, otherwise you may find flipping stacks of different amounts quite difficult.

The World Record for this is again Dean Gauld, with a total of 130, flipping two stacks of 65 back in 1987.  Unfortunately there is no video of this record available.

4. Speed flipping beer mats

That record breaker Dean Gauld is at it again, 25 stacks of 40 beer mats flipped in 45 seconds, a total of 1000.  This was done in 1993 and would imagine it's been unchallenged for a while.  Again, not video to support this.

To break this record you will need to have 1,000 beer mats all lined up, to be in with a chance of setting a new world record.

Buy your Beer Mats on eBay

Click here to place a bid on eBay.co.uk on the Pub2Club beer mats shown in the videos above.  Or follow the link and search for beer mats, as there are thousands available to buy online.  I am selling 6,300 beer mats for the NCT charity, all are new and sealed, and in blocks of 100.  Information about this can be found on this site. 

Breaking a World Record

If you want to try and beat the official world records for beer mat flipping, you will need to be aware of the Guiness rules and note that you will have to have evidence, witnesses, and be the right size, and follow the strict submission process.  Phew, all that effort eh?

Here are links to Guiness World Records and Record Breakers Republic which are two sites that you should consider looking at if you are serious about putting in a record breaking submission.

Alternatively, why not upload your beer mat flipping video attempts on YouTube for everyone else to see.