World texting championship finds fastest thumbs
A pair of Korean teenagers have been named as the world's fastest, and most accurate, texters.Quick-thumbed Young-Ho Bae, 18, and Mok-Min Ha, 17 scooped the titles - and £60,000 prize money - at a contest in New York yesterday.
Typing out a series of words and phrases - with correct capitalisation and punctuation, on a variety of mobile phones - they reached speeds of four characters per second.
But it wasn't as simple as it sounds, they had to do it while completing obstacle courses and other people tried to distract them.
However, anyone who has tried to speak to a teenager while they are sending an SMS will know that distracting them isn't as easy as it sounds either.
Speaking after the win Young-Ho Bae said: "It is amazing that our team won the world title! Every moment in every round of the texting game was just awesome!"We are very thankful to LG for the chance to participate in the world texting championship."
The US team came in second and Pedro Matias, age 27, from Portugal set a new world record by typing a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds - shaving 23 seconds off the previous record, set by Finland’s Arttu Harkki on April 27, 2005.
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