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SMS speed record set
The technology-obsessed Singaporeans have claimed a new world record for keying in the fastest cell-phone text message after a competition held on June 27th in Singapore.
Business-student Kimberly Yeo, 23, typed a horribly complicated 26-word message on her cell phone in 43.66 seconds, competition organizer Singapore Telecommunications said. The competition was given the name “SingTel SMS Shootout” and was sponsored by Nokia, Casio, Samsung and Salon4hair. Yeo’s effort could beat by a wide margin the existing SMS text message record of 67 seconds, set on September 24, 2003, by UK citizen James Trusler in Sydney, Australia, Singapore Telecom said.
The new world record claim will be submitted to Guinness World Records, the international arbiter of all record-setting feats, which is based in London. Contestants had to type this message: “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.” Using the cell phone’s predictive text function, which guesses words as letters are typed in, was not allowed, and the target phrase’s punctuation needed to be accurate, as well. — Scitech World Report
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