Hank Chien


Hank Chien is a former world record holder and two-time "Kong-Off" Champion of the video game Donkey [Kong (arcade game)|Donkey Kong]. 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.
Hank Chien was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. with his family at the age of two. He works as a plastic surgeon in Queens.
The documentary Doctor Kong: Cutting Up the Competition follows his first attempt to break the world record.