Fastest Time to Say First 100 Digits of Pi While Twisting a Rubik's Cube and Balancing 15 Books on Head

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In a new weekly feature, 'Feat of the Week,' our pals over at the Universal Record Database (where everyone can set a world record) will be hand-selecting one awesome world record to highlight.

URDB Feat of the week Remember that kid in your eighth grade math class who was inexplicably good at absolutely everything, from dissecting frogs to reciting Shakespeare to solving quadratic equations? If that made you jealous, Lauren Moore's record might have the same effect. We applaud anyone who can memorize the first 100 digits of Pi...let alone solve a Rubik's cube AND precariously balance 15 heavy-looking books on her head -- all the while maintaining a simple sweetness that makes everything seem so....easy.

Can you break this record (or any of the three feats included?) Let's see it.

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Want to see yourself in the URDB's forthcoming Book of World Records AND help set a brand new world record? All you need is a fake mustache of your own creation & a camera. Head on over to http://book.urdb.org for details.

Laura Yan lives in Brooklyn. She writes blogs and stories, sometimes at URDB, sometimes for herself.

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9.05.10

By dcwdvl

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+ points for it being a girl and not some dorky guy

9.08.10

By atviflav

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Good editing, even the shadowing on the books is almost perfect, it shifts too much and too unevenly. What I mean by that is that when in the areas where there are shadows on the books the shadows shift from light shadow to dark shadow while still in the same spot.

9.07.10

By patardugno

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The rubix cube was all finished when she started on the video, she then twisted it out of place a couple times, but not much,...& then twisted it right back the opposite of what she displaced it.
The books are glued together & attached to her head,...or she would have proved that they were stuck together & probably even superglued to her head,...by dropping them at the end & taking a bow.

I give her a -10 for being so full of sh!t.

I think there was a devil face watching her through the window behind her.

9.07.10

By Denise & Chris

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@patardugno: i also noticed that the rubik's cube seemed to already be "solved" when the video first started.

9.07.10

By Digi

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Yeah I as well noticed the cube was finished at the beginning, sorry chick better luck next time

9.08.10

By batter55

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Hope you are smarter than your comment. You more than likely cauld not solve the cube if you had the solution in front of you. it is a challange of the brain,of which you have none,to solve the cube. Give RESPECT where it is due and not some assignine comment like yours!!!!!

9.08.10

By mtnman

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Impressive except for the fact that she started with a cube that was already solved. She mixed it up a little and 'solved' the cube.

9.08.10

By JWJ71

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the description doesn't say she solves the cube, it says she "twists" it while doing the balancing act and reciting pi.

The idea is she is adding something else for her brain to have to deal with. A more complicated version of patting your head and rubbing your belly if you want to look at it another way.

9.08.10

By hdstyle1957

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Batter55,

Before you comment on someone's intelligence, you might want to consider using spell check. LMAO.

9.08.10

By tigerczew

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Read it again JWJ71. It does in fact say "let alone solve a Rubik's cube"

The and yeah this has to be fake. She could have at least started with the cube messed up even just a little but it was clearly solved. And if you watch the books NEVER shift at all... there's no way you can move as much as she did and have the books not shift even a little bit.

I'll bet she had the numbers to Pi written down and was just reading them.

A+ for getting noticed.... D- for the actual attempt.