April 1 (UPI) — A 20-year-old geography whiz from China showed off his skills by breaking the Guinness World Record for identifying European countries.
The record-keeping organization said Jonathan Feather Ruggles earned the record for the fastest time to identify and type all European countries on a map using Sporcle by completing the task in just 45.85 seconds.
“I’m not actually sure what my interest spawned from,” Ruggles told Guinness World Records, “But I’ve loved [geography] for a long time, and I’ve been doing the Sporcle geography quizzes since then too. In middle school, I would also play Hearts of Iron IV, which is a World War II simulator — that got me interested in geography of the whole world and history.”
He was inspired to pursue the record after talking with his friend, Buffy Bui, who previously broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to identify and type all of the flags of Oceania using Sporcle.
“Seeing that there were other Sporcle records available, I just thought to myself, I can probably do these,” he said, “and tried doing them as quickly as possible!”