November 17, 2004
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)
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