LONDON — The 2027 edition of the Guinness World Records book is out, and its newest entries lean, as ever, toward the gloriously impractical: a car barely wider than a doorway, a hairdryer taller than most of the people who might use it, and a man who has now had parts of his skin tattooed more than 100 times.
The most tattooed living person title goes to Remy Schofield, a 38-year-old Canadian who has covered 90 percent of his body in ink and, rather than stopping there, has gone back over much of it repeatedly — some areas layered with as many as 40 separate tattoos. Schofield began getting tattooed in 2005 and had assumed for years he would never catch the record long held by Lucky Diamond Rich, whose full-body coverage is more complete. Guinness solved the problem for this edition by introducing a category measuring density of re-tattooing rather than surface coverage alone.
Small Car, Big Hairdryer
Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi claimed the narrowest driveable car title with a rebuilt Fiat Panda measuring just 19.76 inches wide — room enough for a driver, a steering column and not much else, with a single headlight and a heavily modified frame. At the opposite end of the scale, British engineer Ruth Amos built the world's largest fully functioning hairdryer, standing roughly five feet nine inches tall, after asking children aged four to eleven to submit invention ideas; more than 5,000 did, and the giant hairdryer was the one she built.
Elsewhere in the new edition, detailed in this week's roundup of new titles: Lisa Masters' horse Hugo, of Towcester, Northamptonshire, was confirmed as the tallest living horse at 6 feet 6.3 inches to the withers, a height Masters says surprised her since Hugo's parents were both average-sized. New Zealand-born performer Emma Phillips set a foot-juggling record with 77 table spins in 30 seconds, balancing on her back while spinning a roughly 22-pound wooden table with her feet.
The book, now in its seventh decade, remains one of publishing's odder annual traditions: a compendium of achievements chosen less for their usefulness than for their sheer specificity, verified down to the decimal inch and the individual layer of tattoo ink.