Pedro Matias Sets New Texting Record At Mobile World Cup 70
Pedro Matias showed off his mad txtin sklz at this year's Mobile World Cup and managed to set a new record for "fastest, most accurate" texts as determined by the event's corporate owners. "history was made when Portugal's Pedro Matias set the new World's Record for texting by typing a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds (besting the previous record by 23 seconds). Of course, each Mobile World Cup must have its share of controversy -- in this case, Engadget Mobile's very own Chris Ziegler led a silent protest during the awards ceremony. The group was reportedly upset over the use of QWERTY phones (the LG enV3 in this case) to break the record."
Re:not that fast (Score:3, Interesting)
I think I could beat it on T9!
Qwerty doesn't actually make texting faster, just easier for new people to pick up on.
Ask anyone who switched from using T9 to a Qwerty smartphone, how much their texting has changed.
I used to be able to text while I drove (I know, terrible) because I didn't have to look at the screen to text a message, and it only needed one hand.
Now a fully Qwerty keyboard requires 2 hands to even use properly, and is difficult to tell which key you are on unless you look at it.
Re:Morse code is faster (Score:4, Interesting)
There is no longer a morse code requirement for any class of ham radio license.
Still, folks who can do in the 30 wpm range are still more common than you might think.
What am I missing. (Score:3, Interesting)
Is it? I can type significantly faster than 250 characters in a minute or two.
I don't get it. 264 characters? 1.59 seconds?
Could the article be wrong, meaning words instead of characters?
I just typed 298 characters in 2 minutes, 3 seconds (not counting time pressing the start-stop button on my watch).
(3 wrong characters, 1 wrong space)
Here's the text. (some of it I couldn't remember, so I made parts of it up, please don't laugh)
THEORIZING THAT ONE COULD TIMETRAVEL WITHIN HIS OWN LIFETIME DOCTOR SAM BECKET STEPPED INTO THE TIME TRAVEL THINGIE AND VANISHED, HE AWOKE TO FIND HIMSELF TRAPPED IN THE PAST, FACING MIRROR IMAGES THAT WERE NOT HIS OWN, AN D TRYING HIS BEST TO DO GOOD THINGS THAT IN THE BEND LEAD TO HIS DEMISE AND.
So I copied the message from my Nokia Communicator onto a card, then onto my netbook, then I posted it here.
Almost 300 characters in just over 2 minutes.
And I rarely text. So there are lots of people who would beat me.
So what am I missing here?