--- title: Watch The World Record for Knocking Books Over Like Dominoes description: Most fulfilling two minutes you’ll spend on the Internet today canonical: https://time.com/3734382/books-dominoes-world-record/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-05T20:32:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:26.836Z og:title: Watch The World Record for Knocking Books Over Like Dominoes og:description: Most fulfilling two minutes you’ll spend on the Internet today og:url: https://time.com/3734382/books-dominoes-world-record/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch The World Record for Knocking Books Over Like Dominoes twitter:description: Most fulfilling two minutes you’ll spend on the Internet today twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Group Set the World Record for Knocking Books Over Like Dominoes by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 5, 2015 8:32 PM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 5, 2015 8:32 PM UTC Watching 5,000 books fall down never looked so good. A group of employees at the U.K.-based snack company United Biscuits set out to beat the world record for the most books that fell like dominoes at one time in late January. It took a little over two minutes, but the employees were successful in their effort to beat the old record of 4,998 books. Their set up of 5,500 (182 books were disqualified) spanned an entire room. Though the record was set on Jan. 28, Guinness World Records released the clip on Thursday in honor of World Book Day. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3734382/books-dominoes-world-record/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3734382/books-dominoes-world-record/"},"headline":"Watch This Group Set the World Record for Knocking Books Over Like Dominoes","datePublished":"2015-03-05T20:32:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:26.836Z","description":"Most fulfilling two minutes you’ll spend on the Internet today","url":"https://time.com/3734382/books-dominoes-world-record/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3734382/books-dominoes-world-record/","name":"Watch This Group Set the World Record for Knocking Books Over Like Dominoes"}}]}] ```