Hank Chien | |
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![]() Chien at the Kong-Off 3 tournament in Denver, Colorado | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Harvard University Mount Sinai School of Medicine[1][2] |
Hank Chien is a former world record holder and two-time "Kong-Off" Champion of the video game Donkey Kong.[2][3] As of January 2016, his personal best sits at 1,138,600. Chien won the first Kong-Off, a Donkey Kong competition which occurred on March 19–20, 2011. The competition featured Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell and eight other competitors. Chien won with a score of 994,400.[4]
Hank Chien was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. with his family at the age of two.[1] He works as a plastic surgeon in Queens.[2]
The documentary Doctor Kong: Cutting Up the Competition follows his first attempt to break the world record.[5]