Fastest time to recite the first verse of a song (English)

The fastest time to recite the first verse of a song (English) is 7.45 sec and was achieved by Fionnuala Corbett (Ireland), on iRadio, in Galway, Ireland, on 22 May 2026.

Transmitted by Iradio’s Dave and Fionnuala from a local hostelry in front of an audience of listeners on a show called the ‘Drive for 5’. “Hit the Diff” by Marty Mone is well known among Irish rural audiences and it has charted in Ireland. This was the verse: Mowing, lifting, sowing, baling, drawing, hauling and buckraking, backing, stacking, plowing, crashing, tipping, wrapping, tail doors, flapping, sucking diesel, cutting, trucking, spreading piping, double clutching, spinning, sliding, digging, rigging, raring, tearing, losing, winning. The verse had to be at least unique 28 words long and recited each word from the song clearly and in the correct order.