World’s Record of Fastest Text Messaging

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.

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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).

2 Responses to “World’s Record of Fastest Text Messaging”

  1. Willy Sudiarto Raharjo Says:

    Yup, that’s why Indonesia is one of the preferred country to launch some new mobilephones (because many Indonesian people like to buy new mobile phones, even though many of them are were only being used to type SMS, and the result, many Indonesian people type SMS faster than any other countries)

  2. Shanky Says:

    what shall i do if i waana challenge did world record of typing fastwest message….

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