Champion set SMS

In New York, the championship in speed set SMS. The winner for the second year in a row was the 17-year-old Austin Virshke, received a prize of $ 50 thousand. The second place and $ 10 thousand. Got 16-year-old Kent Augustine from Queens. He said that next year will again take part in competitions and compete for leadership. The winner said that as an exercise to your friends send up to 500 text messages a day, and his "coach" her mother spoke. It is noted that during the final round of the competition, he was able to dial 149 characters in 39 seconds. The judges assessed the speed, accuracy and agility in the recruitment teksta.

As part of the tournament, which is sponsored by LG Electronics, the participants, among other things it had to be 45 seconds blindly dial the following message: «Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky ». As well as decipher the abbreviations, then typing them (for example, TTYL means «talk to you later» - «talk later").

Source: tech.obozrevatel.com/news/81596-chempion-po-skorostnomu-naboru-sms-zarabotal-50-tyis..htm