Juggling world records


Juggling world records comprise the best performances in the fields of endurance and numbers juggling.

Criteria

For ratification as a world record, the claimed record
Up until 2012 any record must have been proved by either of the two methods above or by video evidence, available to the members of the former Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling . JISCON is no longer active.
Records begin where each object being juggled has been thrown and successfully caught at least once. This is known as a 'flash'. Where each object is thrown and caught more than once the term used is a 'qualify'.

Solo juggling records

Props must be thrown individually from each hand, and counting of catches commences once all props bar one have been thrown.
Multiplexing is not allowed.
Catches are counted only for throws made while no props have been dropped. According to JISCON definition, a drop is "a failure to catch an object that, as a result, hits the ground or any foreign object. A drop is considered to have happened at the moment the object should have been caught or touched, not when it hits the ground."

Balls

Clubs

Rings

Bouncing

Force Bounce
EquipmentRecordJugglerNationalityYearRef
12 bounce balls12 catchesAlan Šulc2008,
10 bounce balls10 catchesAlan Šulc2008,
10 bounce balls10 catchesHenrik Veres2013
10 bounce balls10 catchesTony Garcia2014
9 bounce balls98 catchesAlan Šulc2016
8 bounce balls4 min 12 sAlan Šulc2011,
7 bounce balls2 min 15 sDavid Nayer2015
6 bounce balls5 min 48 sDavid Nayer2016
5 bounce balls59 min 30 sDavid Nayer2015

Lift Bounce
EquipmentRecordJugglerNationalityYearRef
11 bounce balls12 catchesEden Zak2014
10 bounce balls51 catchesMathias Ramfelt2017
9 bounce balls40 sMathias Ramfelt2017
8 bounce balls1 min 14 sTyron Colombaioni2016
7 bounce balls11 min 20 sTyron Colombaioni2016
6 bounce balls6 min 43 sPhilippe Dupuis2016
5 bounce balls56 min 09 sLiam Ryan-O'Flaherty2019
4 bounce balls2 hour 0 min 01 sBill Coad2019
3 bounce balls3 hours 45 min 13 sBill Coad2019

Passing records

When passing, only the props thrown between two separate jugglers are counted. In some patterns all the throws are caught by the opposite juggler but in other patterns each juggler makes some throws to themselves. The reason for excluding self throws is that two jugglers could make a single pass to their partner and then go on to juggle solo patterns for as long as they wanted therefore undermining the record for 'passing'.

Balls

Clubs

Rings