Illinois man is World's Fastest Clapper

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- There are strange sounds coming from Energy Command Studios in Arlington Heights. It's clapping, clapping like you've probably never heard before. That's because Bryan Bednarek, 23, is now recognized as the world's fastest clapper.

Bednarek set the record in the studio in February, and Guinness has now made it official. Bednarek executed 804 claps in just 60 seconds. How does something like this get started?

"It started in high school," Bednarek says. "A lot of friends started pestering me and pestering me and eventually I decided, you know, I'm going to try to break the record."

He watched the video of the former record holder on the Internet and then just concentrated and worked at it until his hands turned into a slap happy blur. He says it's really quite simple.

"I wish there was some kind of trick. It just all came naturally," he says. "I'd say move your elbows up and down, that's the only thing you have to do. Just clap normally in your palms. Clappity, clappity, clappity."