Piranhas Ate My Cellphone
The Guardian
reports on a management student in Singapore who set a record for text messaging speed.
A Singaporean student appears to have thumbed her way into the Guinness Book of Records after smashing the previous fastest time for text-messaging a 160-character text on a mobile phone.
The Singaporean media reported yesterday that Kimberly Yeo, 23, clocked 43.24 seconds in the final of a competition organised by the city-state's main telephone company, SingTel. [...]
All attempts to become the world's fastest texter have to use the following two sentences: "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."
Competitors are not allowed to use spelling aids or a predictive text programme on their phone.
Posted by johndan at June 29, 2004 12:33 PM
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