Records
The current world record for farthest card thrown is held by Rick Smith, Jr. who threw a card 216 feet and 4 inches at 92 miles an hour on December 2, 2002. This is also the current record for the fastest throw as well.Previous world record holders are Ricky Jay,and Jim Karol.
In October 2005, Chris Linn broke the Guinness World Record for the "most one fingered playing card scales in one minute". To break the record, Linn had to hold a deck of playing cards in one hand and use his thumb to propel ("scale") the cards from the deck a minimum distance of 12 feet. Linn was able to scale 114 playing cards in one minute, beating the previous record of 104 playing cards set by magician Jeff McBride. The record breaking attempt took place at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.
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