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Hang types and specialty tiers

Look up Contender through Freak times for any hang type. Grip Age still comes only from a standard two-arm hang.

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Standard two-arm dead hang is the flagship. Many other hang types are accepted and each has its own Contender-to-Freak ladder. Open-board times: 1:00 Contender, 2:00 Expert, 3:00 Elite, 4:00 Legend, 5:00 Freak.

Weighted time hangs are not "hit a time or hit a load." You pick the added load you hung with. That load sets how long you need for each tier. 20 lb and 35 lb are real values. They sit between the printed weights.

Edge finger count is climbing per hand (4F full hand, 3F, 2F, 1F mono). On a bar, the Guinness four-finger hang is 2 fingers on each hand (2+2), a separate title from the Edge boards. On a hangboard edge the finger count follows the edge type. Weighted edge uses the hangboard mm + finger ladder, then shortens times as added load goes up.

Standard-style time boards

Times below are the minimum hold for that badge. Below Contender is Challenger. Edge is not a single row here. See Edge by mm below. One-arm, two-finger, and one-arm two-finger in this table are bar hangs with no mm. mm ladders are in the next sections.

Edge by mm

Edge and Pocket share the same ladder at 4 fingers per hand (full hand). Pro is 1.5x Freak. Sloper and Jug do not change with mm.

Edge by fingers

Climbing per hand vs the 4F full-hand hangboard ladder at 20 mm Edge. 3F is 65%, 2F is 40%, 1F mono is 22%. Not bar total-finger boards.

Finger / one-hand by mm

Each mm row is the 25 mm Edge ratio applied to that type's bar ladder. Two-finger and one-hand bar: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 90. One-hand two-finger bar: 8 / 15 / 25 / 40 / 60. No mm uses those bar times.

Weighted edge

Edge mm times scaled by two-arm weighted Freak(load) / Freak(0-10 lb), then by fingers per hand. Pick a sample load and finger count.

Weighted time boards

Read across a load row. That is how long you must hold at that added weight. Any other load interpolates between the two nearest rows. Example: 35 lb one-arm weighted sits between 25 lb and 45 lb.

Heaviest Weighted Dead Hang (30-Second Minimum)

Two separate boards share this hang. Heaviest Weighted Dead Hang (3-Second Minimum) counts only holds of 3 seconds or more and ranks by added weight. Heaviest Weighted Dead Hang (30-Second Minimum) counts only holds of 30 seconds or more and also ranks by added weight. Extra time does not beat more weight. Tier on the 30-second board is the added load you held for those 30 seconds. A hang of 30 seconds or more appears on both boards automatically.

Upright Pinch Hold

Upright Side Pinch Hold

L-sit form break

Filming and bar rules still follow the rulebook.

Guinness benchmarks

These are the Guinness World Records titles that match our hang types. WDHC ranks its own boards; each Guinness mark is an outside benchmark, checked 3 Oct 2026. Not a Guinness title: a WDHC mark is never a world record.

Guinness titleMarkHolderDateWDHC board
Longest duration in the dead hang position80:41Kenta Adachi (JPN)18 Nov 2022Longest Dead Hang
Longest duration hanging from a bar (male)4:30:18Kenta Adachi (JPN)26 Dec 2025Longest Hang From a Bar (Men)
Longest duration hanging from a bar (female)53:51Stefanie Millinger (AUT)11 Jul 2026Longest Hang From a Bar (Women)
Oldest person to hold the dead hang position (female)91 y 51 d (hung 3:43)Ann Crile Esselstyn (USA)7 Sep 2026Oldest Person to Hold a Dead Hang (Women)
Longest duration in the dead hang position with a 100 lb pack2:31.18Marcello Ferri (ITA)16 Apr 2023100 lb Pack Dead Hang
Longest duration in the dead hang position with a 200 lb pack1:16Marcello Ferri (ITA)10 Jan 2021200 lb Pack Dead Hang
Longest duration in the dead hang position with a 300 lb pack (male)1:03Jonathan W. Simos (USA)29 Nov 2023300 lb Pack Dead Hang
Heaviest weight lifted while hanging suspended in the dead hang position441.4 lbMarcello Ferri (ITA)21 Nov 2024Heaviest Weight Hung
Longest duration in the dead hang position using two fingers2:07.45Anatoliy Visselskiy (KAZ)18 Sep 2025Two-Finger Dead Hang
Longest duration in the dead hang position using two fingers with a 40 lb pack (male)1:31Marcello Ferri (ITA)12 Feb 2024Two-Finger + 40 lb Pack
Longest duration in the dead hang position using two fingers with a 60 lb pack (male)1:02Marcello Ferri (ITA)30 Jan 2024Two-Finger + 60 lb Pack
Longest duration in the dead hang position using two fingers with a 100 lb pack (male)52.20 sMarcello Ferri (ITA)14 Nov 2023Two-Finger + 100 lb Pack
Longest duration four finger dead hang3:37.38Marcello Ferri (ITA)13 Feb 2025Four-Finger Dead Hang (bar, 2+2)
Longest duration four finger hang with an 80 lb pack2:07.22Marcello Ferri (ITA)23 Jan 2025Four-Finger + 80 lb Pack (bar, 2+2)
Longest duration rope hang with one finger52.47 sMarcello Ferri (ITA)29 Oct 2024Reference only
Longest L-sit bar hang (female)2:14Stefanie Millinger (AUT)17 Jun 2021L-Sit Bar Hang (Women)
Longest L-sit bar hang with one arm (female)1:38.05Stefanie Millinger (AUT)13 Aug 2021Reference only

No Guinness title was found for front lever, four-finger front lever, chin-over-bar, towel hang, lock-offs, edge or pinch. Those stay WDHC boards.