Longest fingernail ever
- Who
- Shridhar Chillal
- What
- 197.8 centimetre(s)
- Where
- India (Pune)
- When
- 17 November 2014
The longest single fingernail ever belonged to Shridhar Chillal (India), who stopped trimming the nails of his left hand in 1952. His coiled thumbnail measured 197.8 cm (6 ft 6 in) on 17 November 2014.
In 2018, Chillal lost his record for longest nails on one hand; after 66 years of growth, he had his 909.6-cm (29-ft 10-in) nails cut with a Dremel rotary saw.