Dave Stoddard, 2nd — Ben Cook, 1st
A Utah teen with fingers of fury is once again the speed text-messaging king of the world.
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.
The phrase used for purposes of professional, competition texting is: “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.”
The feat was recorded on video and scored by an official timekeeper, validating it for Guinness World Records purposes, said Sara Spaulding, spokeswoman for the event sponsor, Jump Mobile.
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Th rzr tth pirana o d gen serrasalmus & pygocentrus r d mst ferocius frshwatr fsh n d world…
and so on…
Any idea where/if the video is available?
I want to show it to a friend as an example of a sad fool with no life.
That’s special. Special Olypics special.
I remember the good old days when contests like this involved Rubik’s Cubes.
Interesting picture, though. These poor kids will end up with claw fingers and thumb knubs if they keep this up.
why do I feel such saddness when I look at this pic and read the story?
Ohh…I know, because they have no LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is not very impressive. Whenever they have one of these contests they never say wether they were allowed to use T9 (text prediction). With T9 on and the scientific words already in the phone’s dictionary I could beat him.
Hey, it’s Utah. What else are they going to do?
(I currently live in Utah, so I can speak from experience.)
Last May Ben Cook lost to two radio amateurs using morse code on the Jay Leno show! Check it out
It’s good to hear that Mormon youth is “spending” their lives in a “wholesome” way rather than cooking the books and becoming the engineers they should be.