New world record in writing text messages

Smashing the previous Guinness World Record of 67 seconds, a 28 year old Singaporean women has triple-tapped 26 words into a mobile phone in an astonishing 43.24 seconds. Kimberly Yeo, a Business student, typed the 160 character 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.”

including all punctuation and in upper- and lower-case letters - without the aid of any predictive text functions such as T9 or iTAP. Yeo says she sends an average of 1500 text messages a month to friends and family, so it’s no wonder she is so good at it. The feat was accomplished outside a department store, in a contest held by Singapore carrier SingTel, and Yeo walked away with about $10,250 in prize money - all for sending one text message. My Motorola MPx220 is quite fine mobile phone, but I still prefer instant messaging before writing short messages…