A 15-year-old Indian boy has broken the world record by building the “world’s largest playing card structure.” Here is the story of him.
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- Who is the teenager who broke the world record for largest card structure?
- How long did it take to make the structure?
Who is the teenager who broke the world record for largest card structure?
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Arnav Daga achieved this achievement by building a structure from 143,000 playing cards that includes four notable structures from his hometown of Kolkata.
This magnificent construction is 12.21 meters long, 3.47 meters high and 5.08 meters wide. Guinness World Records posted a time-lapse video of Daga’s construction process on its YouTube page, titled “Building the Largest Playing Card Structure.”
Arnav Daga was seen methodically placing cards on the floor within a preliminary outline, ensuring precise alignment before beginning the stacking procedure. His method involved using grids and vertical cells to build these complicated structures.
The Guinness World Record accompanied the video with a caption that read: “Arnav Daga has loved stacking cards since he was 8 years old, and during the Covid-19 lockdown it became his passion to achieve a Guinness World Record title.”
How long did it take to make the structure?
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According to the Guinness World Record (GWR), the little boy spent 41 days meticulously building this structure, which includes reproductions of the Writer’s Building, the Shaheed Minar, Salt Lake Stadium and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Daga personally visited all four locations before beginning his card stacking project to investigate their architectural aspects and determine their size.
Arnav’s technique, according to GWR, involves the use of “grids” (four horizontal cards aligned at right angles) and “vertical cells” (four vertical cards tilted toward each other at right angles).
Arnav ran into difficulties during his 41-day journey when the Shaheed Minar structure began to collapse, forcing him to adapt and improve on the fly. He described his anguish at wasting endless hours and days of effort, but he remained steadfast in his determination, with no intention of giving up.
Balancing his educational obligations and the expectations of trying to break a record during those 41 days proved difficult for the 15-year-old. According to GWR, Arnav Daga acknowledged that coordinating both tasks was incredibly difficult, but highlighted his persistent commitment to overcoming all challenges.
Arnav has been interested in stacking cards since he was eight years old, according to GWR. He started taking it more seriously during the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, when he had a lot of free time to practice.
Even though he had limited space in his room, he began making smaller card structures, some of which appear on his YouTube channel, arnavinnovates. Watch the world record video here.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn