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Many of my friends in Canada are amazed when they see me writing text messaging (SMS) on my mobile phone.  They say that I type text messaging very fast.  To be honest, I don’t feel that I can type that fast.  I have many other friends in Indonesia and Singapore who can type text messaging like crazy.  Perhaps text messaging is not so popular in North America, that’s why people don’t use it very often, thus they don’t type so fast.

Do you know who has the world’s record of fastest text messaging?  According to Guinness World of Record, a girl from Singapore, Kimberly Yeo Sue Fern, set the world’s record of fastest text messaging in year 2004.  During the competition, all the contestants have to write the following 160 character text in their mobile phone.  No "predictive text" functions (T9) or other spelling aids are allowed.

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.

Guess… how long did Kimberly need to write the text above?  Only 43 seconds!!

How about me?  I have tried to type the same text and it took me 1 minute 41 seconds (about 2.5 times slower).

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