Texting About Razor-Toothed Piranhas (or The World’s Fastest Texting Record)

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.

That’s the standard text used for professional competition SMS typing. What? They have such a contest? Apparently so. And this year an 18-year old from Utah broke the record.

Ben Cook, 18, of Provo, returned to the top of the cell phone text-messaging heap Friday at a Denver text-off, blazing through a 160-character standardized message in 42.22 seconds.

I don’t know why one would need to text so fast. If it were about a life-or-death situation, I would rather call.

At any rate, I have my T9 dictionary turned on most of the time, to make typing easier. I’m not much of a fan of txt spk (or text speak). And if I were asked to text about the razor-toothed piranhas mentioned above, I would’ve just said:

Dude, check out my cool fish!

July 31st, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in News at 3:05 am 1 Comment »
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1 Comment »

  1. I dont know what to say.. But i can type this all in just 22 seconds using my N70.
    I dont know how to apply for the world records..
    I’m using mobile phone for chatting on yahoo, for sending mails.. And for everything..
    Now this is what i’m posting here is been done by my mobile phone..

    Comment by AQLIS — June 6, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

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