Sixteen-year-old boy is the fastest texter in America

[Hum]

NEW YORK ? The reigning 16-year-old champion of cellphone texting has reclaimed the title of fastest texter in America.

Austin Weirschke of New York, won after eight rounds at the texting competition Wednesday in Times Square. He gets $50,000 in prize money.

Eleven contestants from around the U.S. competed. The competition tested three skills: speed, accuracy and dexterity.

There were three rounds, including texting while blind-folded and texting with hands behind their backs.

The third round is called "text blitz." Phrases were shown to the contestants for a length of time and they copied them as fast as they could.

The annual competition is sponsored by cellphone-maker LG Electronics.

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[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

Using touch screen or a full physical QWERTY keyboard?

[Hum]

^ I imagine LG would supply their best phone.

[FMH]

Teens are going to rule this competition.

[Buttus]

touch screen behind the back? damn, that would be impossible! must have been qwerty keys...

[123456789A]

Don't text and drive.

[Hum]

^ or TALK !

[Original Poster]

^ or TALK !

dont talk and text you end up typing your spoken conversation

[PixilEyes]

^ I imagine LG would supply their best phone.

Usually the best phones don't have QWERTY keyboards.

[compl3x]

Can text really fast, but have nothing of substance to text.

[Noir Angel]

$50k for being able to text quickly? It's not hard to be well rewarded for doing worthless crap these days it would seem :laugh:

[The King of GnG]

What a sociopathic, I may say.....

[The Laughing Man]

Glad to see they had 50k just laying around for no reason.... then gave it away also for no reason.

[MS Bob 11]

Good, he should challenge BenThePCGuy in the SmokedbyWindowsPhone challenge. :p Will win a free Windows Phone.