New world record for fastest text messaging?

Engadget (hey, welcome back, server problems yesterday?) reports that a high school kid in Utah broke the world record for fastest text messaging yesterday, tapping out the official sentence the Guinness people use to judge these things. ”The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human" on his cellphone keypad (no predictive text or QWERTY keyboards allowed) in just 57.75 seconds". Previous world records and related articles: -- SMS speed record sets Guinness World Record - A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone on June 28, 2004. -- Txt chmpn - James Trusler, 30, from Shoreham, West Sussex, beat his previous world text messaging record by nearly a minute. James has been confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002 -- Lindsay's fleet fingers win texting title - A 16-year-old girl from Wigan is the UK's fastest texter (November 28, 2001) permalink (November 17th, 2004)

SMS speed record sets Guinness World Record

A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone, underlining Asia's growing obsession with cellplhone technology, reports IOL. "Kimberly Yeo thumbed 26 words in 43.24 seconds into her phone, beating a world record of 67 seconds for the same words set by a Briton in September 2003, said Singapore's dominant telephone carrier, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), on Monday. The message - typed in lower and upper case - is a Guinness World Records standard in the relatively new category of cellphone text messaging". Related articles: -- Txt chmpn - James Trusler, 30, from Shoreham, West Sussex, beat his previous world text messaging record by nearly a minute. James has been confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002 -- Lindsay's fleet fingers win texting title - A 16-year-old girl from Wigan is the UK's fastest texter (November 28, 2001) permalink (June 28th, 2004)

Txt chmpn

A British mobile phone network engineer has become the world's fastest texter, according to the BBC. James Trusler, 30, from Shoreham, East Sussex, beat his previous world text messaging record by nearly a minute on Australian TV to claim the prize. He had to type: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." James Trusler typed the message - requiring 160 taps - in 67 seconds. James has been confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002 , when he was crowned Australian Champion. The text-mad expat says he sends about 500 messages from his phone every week". Want to compete? check out James Trusler website and click on SMS trainer to see if you're up to speed and uh, by the way, whatever happened to "The quick black fox jumps over a lazy dog"? permalink (May 6th, 2004)

South African Wireless Operator Cell C launches The Fastest Fingers Competition

South African wireless operator Cell C is to launch a new competition that it hopes will take the teenage market by storm, as the operator seeks the country's fastest SMSers, reports ITWeb. "The Fastest Fingers competition is a search for the fastest SMS typed on a mobile phone, and will run during youth television series Backstage on eTV at 6.30pm, between 6 and 10 December. Cell C hopes to see thousands of youngsters attempting to break the Guinness World Record held by a British resident, who typed 26 words in 67 seconds last September. Just for the record, Engadget reported a couple of weeks ago, that a high school kid in Utah broke the world record for fastest text messaging in November. The competition will run for a week, during which viewers will be asked to SMS a phrase that will flash on the screen during the Backstage show, and the fastest viewer to send the phrase to the number 35552 will be the winner for the day. Previous world records and related articles: -- SMS speed record sets Guinness World Record - A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone on June 28, 2004. -- Txt chmpn - James Trusler, 30, from Shoreham, West Sussex, beat his previous world text messaging record by nearly a minute. James has been confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002 -- Lindsay's fleet fingers win texting title - A 16-year-old girl from Wigan is the UK's fastest texter (November 28, 2001) permalink (December 3rd, 2004)

Samsung Mobile hunts for fastest SMSer

Samsung Mobile on Monday announced the launch of a nationwide contest to find India's fastest SMSer, reports The Economic Times. "The Delhi leg of the competition will be held from 9 th to 12 th February, 2005 at the Mobile Expo 2005 to be held in Pragati Maidan. The message to be typed, a Guinness World Records standard text, reads as follows. “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human" Interested participants in the NCR should register on the Samsung Fun Club Samsung Fun Club website. Related competitions: -- South African Wireless Operator Cell C launches The Fastest Fingers Competition - A search for the fastest SMS typed on a mobile phone, and ran during youth television series Backstage on eTV at 6.30pm, between 6 and 10 December, 2004. -- SMS speed record sets Guinness World Record - A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone on June 28, 2004. -- Txt chmpn - James Trusler, 30, from Shoreham, West Sussex, beat his previous world text messaging record by nearly a minute. James has been confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002 -- Lindsay's fleet fingers win texting title - A 16-year-old girl from Wigan is the UK's fastest texter (November 28, 2001) Illustration from the BBC permalink (February 7th, 2005)

Texting champ wins $50,000

Parents may want to rethink scolding their kids for texting at the dinner table, since it could win them a ton of money, writes News.com. "A 20-year-old college student from Cleveland State University just won the $50,000 grand prize in a national texting competition held in New York this week, sponsored by cell phone maker LG. The previous highest prize paid for the "fastest texter" was a contest also organized by LG Electronics in March 2007 which paid $ 25,000. Links to other text messaging championships held over the years and Guinness World records. permalink (July 11th, 2008)

National Texting Championship. Win $ 25'000

LG Electronics will be holding a National Texting Championship with the first prize set at $25,000 for the fastest texter. The contest will be held in Hollywood, at Paramount Studios and in New York City, at the Roseland Ballroom. The contest is open to the public and will be held on March 31, 2007. There is a catch though, contestants must own and use an activated LG enV mobile phone to compete. [via MobileWhack] Related competitions: -- Singaporean is world's fastest text messager -- New Text speed record broken in India -- Samsung Mobile hunts for fastest SMSer -- South African Wireless Operator Cell C launches The Fastest Fingers Competition -- SMS speed record sets Guinness World Record -- Txt chmpn -- Lindsay's fleet fingers win texting title permalink (March 15th, 2007)

New Text speed record broken in India

Karan Sachdev, a second year B Com student of Delhi University, became the Indian SMS king, by punching a confusing message of 160 characters in 66 seconds - beating the previous record by one second - in a tense competition in the Capital on Saturday, reports the Times of India. Karan claimes he sends 200-300 messages everyday. The previous Guinness record was held by Britain's James Trusler who typed the same message in 67 seconds. “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.” Illustration from the BBC. Click here for related articles to fastest texter competitions. permalink (February 14th, 2005)

LG Kicks Off Mobile Worldcup 2009 for Fastest Texter

LG has kicked off its annual LG MOBILE WORLDCUP to look for fastest texter. The annual festival kicks off with the first national competition in Indonesia that will culminate in the World Championship in the U.S. in November to find the world’s fastest texter. This year, LG expanded MOBILE WORLDCUP from four to sixteen participating countries and a total prize pool of US $1 million. [via Slashphone] permalink (July 14th, 2009)

Latest Fastest (blindfolded) Texter

A Dunedin teen is New Zealand's latest Guinness world record holder - for texting blindfolded. Stuff reports. "Elliot Nicholls, 17, broke the world record in Dunedin yesterday,not once but twice, texting a 160-character message blindfolded and finishing in 51 seconds on his second attempt and then 45 seconds on his fourth try. The previous record was set by an Italian at one minute 23 seconds. The text was: "the razor toothed piranhas of the genera serrasal musand pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. in reality they rarely attack a human". Links to previous texting championships. permalink (November 18th, 2007)

Singaporean is world's fastest text messager

Sixteen-year-old Ang Chuang Yang, a student from Singapore, broke the Guinness World Record for the shortest time needed to type a 160-character SMS message on Sunday after whizzing through the task in 41.52 seconds in a competition, reports Reuters. Just for comparison'ssake, in 2004, James Trusler typed the message in 67 seconds beating his previous record by one second. Trusler was the confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002. The phrase to qualify is: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." Related: - Other fast texter world records permalink (November 12th, 2006)