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Can one machine do everything a human can?
We catalogued 86 of the greatest things humans have ever done. Then we asked: can a single machine, human-sized, carrying its own brain, match them all?
The Human Records Index. Today's best score.
No machine on Earth scores above 4.6%
Not one machine. Not the best computer for chess and a different robot for running. One machine. Everything. The fastest sprint, the hardest maths, the best memory, the most precise surgery. Can one machine match all of them?
The Six Domains
Thinking
Mind
Moving
Body
Feeling
Senses
Doing
Skill
Making
Creation
Connecting
Together
How Scoring Works
Absolute
For measurable records. Machine time divided by human record. Bolt ran 9.58s — if the robot runs 19.16s, that's 0.50.
Blind Test
For creative records. Two entries — human vs machine. You vote blind. Then we reveal. The argument IS the fun.
Pass / Fail
For skill records. Watch the robot try. Vote: did it do it? Catch a ball? Comfort someone? You decide.
Born at Castlebridge, County Wexford
Where the Guinness Book began, a new question starts.
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver missed a shot at a golden plover near Castlebridge House. The argument about which bird was fastest led to the Guinness Book of World Records. Seventy-five years later, the same instinct asks a new question: can a machine match a human?
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