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Texting Teens Shatter More Questionable 'World Records' at LG Worldcup

by Terrence O'Brien on January 27, 2011 at 02:25 PM

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The Guinness World Record for fastest texter has been broken again... we think. Cheong Kit Au, from Australia, mashed out a 264-character text in one minute and 17 seconds, crushing the previous record by 43 seconds. Then again, Melissa Thompson supposedly broke the record in August by Swyping out a 160-character message in just over 25 seconds. If you were to double that measure, you get 320 characters in well under a minute, significantly faster than Au's typing. Even odder, despite having supposedly set a new record (and we're still not sure what criteria are being used to judge that), Au did not take home the novelty over-sized check for winning the LG Mobile Worldcup. Instead, that honor (and $100,000 in prize money) was claimed by sisters Christina and Jennifer Sales Ancines. The pair beat out teams from 15 other countries that had traveled to New York City to battle for the text-messaging crown. Their challenge involved typing phrases into LG phones without making any mistakes.

So what did we learn from the second annual LG Mobile Worldcup? Well, for one, that some companies will spend an absurd amount of money on silly events to promote their brands; and, two, that Guinness Book World Records are practically meaningless. In fact, Switched is going to set a world record in 2011 for Most Tech-Related Guinness World Records Mocked. There's an entry for that right?

Tags: cellphones, GuinnessBookOfWorldRecords, LG, LgMobileWorldCup, sms, texting, TextingChampionship, top

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