00:03He may only be 11 years old, but Lucas Santo has all the elements to break a global record.
00:09Three, two, one.
00:13The Perth primary school student is attempting to beat the Guinness World Record for reciting
00:17the entire periodic table in the fastest time.
00:23I got 27.16 seconds.
00:28I'm feeling great. I'm feeling happy.
00:31His teacher's own periodic table competition sparking his passion.
00:36Rogan, potassium, calcium, scanium, titanium, vanadium.
00:39I was hesitant to join and then my mum, she said I should do it, so I reluctantly agreed.
00:46The current world record was set in Saudi Arabia at just under 34 seconds.
00:51Lucas spending months preparing for the challenge.
00:54Maybe seven, ten times we tried, then he started to come around 33.71.
01:00But for the last few weeks it's like under 30 and we were like, oh that's really good.
01:05One of the timekeepers recording Lucas's attempt says he's confident about the outcome.
01:10Positive, because from what I understand it's something like five and a half to six seconds inside the previous record.
01:17Listening to chemical elements, a vast difference to Mr Price's weekly athletics timekeeping.
01:23Some of those words, I can't even pronounce them.
01:26Let alone try to recite them after you've done, you know, 180, no thanks.
01:32The Guinness World Records left to decide whether Lucas's speedy attempt is successful.
01:37Thank you very much.
01:38Thank you very much.
01:38Thank you very much.
01:43Thanks a lot.
01:43Yeah, I'm sorry.
01:43Hey there you go.
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