New Guinness World Record: 11-Year-Old Chinese Student Sets It with a Tiny Paper Frog

A fingernail-sized paper frog. A jump of 2.52 metres. That is further than most real frogs can leap.

On June 28, an 11-year-old student named Liang Chenhao from Guilin, Guangxi, set a new Guinness World Record for the farthest jump by an origami paper frog — smashing the previous record of 1.45 metres, set by students and staff at Guangxi Normal University in 2024. He did not just beat it. He blew past it by more than a metre.

It started as a childhood game

Folding paper frogs is a game most people remember from childhood, but there is real physics hiding in that simple fold — which is why it has become a popular science project for kids in China. 

Liang's interest started at a school science competition, where his homemade frogs were already jumping over 2 metres. Breaking the world record became his next goal.

Turns out, it is not about pressing harder. 

Paper size, the precision of each fold, where you press, the angle of release — get any of these wrong, and the jump falls apart. Liang folded more than a hundred test frogs, tweaking one detail at a time, and eventually landed on the winning formula: a tiny 3cm by 3cm square of paper.

On the day of the official attempt, his first two tries fell short. On the third, he tuned out the crowd, repeated his usual rhythm — and the frog launched further than any paper frog ever had.

Liang says records exist to be broken, and if someone beats his someday, he will not be disappointed — he will be excited. He hopes his story inspires other kids his age to find joy in something as small as a paper frog, and to never be afraid to try.

Source: 新华网

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