Texting Record Broken Yet Again... on iPhone 4
Two days later, the texting record was beaten again.
Monday brought reports that a 27-year-old British woman--Melissa Thompson--broke the world's record for texting, beating the previous record set by U.S.-based Franklin Page by almost ten seconds. The feat was achieved using the new Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and Swype, an app that allows the user to "write" messages without lifting a finger.
At the time, the record-breaking text message still required Guinness approval. However two days later, reports surfaced that the texting record was broken yet again by mere seconds, barely beating Thompson's previous attempt over the weekend.
Named only as "Brian," the 19-year-old used an iPhone 4 to quickly text the following 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."
Based on the video below, the texting was performed in 21.8 seconds without using Swype. Brian also started the message after activating the timer on a separate iPhone (or iPod Touch). As this was done independently, Brian may be required to perform the texting again in order to be recognized by Guinness.
Still, record or not, the messaging is insanely fast. See for yourself by checking out Brian's fast fingers below. Can you do better?
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WHY WHY MUST IT BE THE IPHONE 4. We won't hear the end of this from the apple fanboys.
And he didn't even have it turned to landscape mode. . . .
He must have skinnier fingers than I do
+1 iPhone, oh yeah!
Wonder how long he practices for this? I mean this is going to open many doors in life
J/K
its fasttt
well, i'll beat him in guitar hero. does that make me the superior person?
short answer-YES
all the people commenting without even reading the first sentence of the article.... it was a woman guys, ''HE didnt have it turned to landscape mode''.........
all the people commenting without even reading the first sentence of the article.... it was a woman guys, ''HE didnt have it turned to landscape mode''.........
you clearly didn't read anything after that.
Lol, Melissa's responses to the YouTube comments on this are epic.
Stick it to 'em.
Figures, with poor battery life, you need to text fast, really fast!
Now that's just impressive.
all the people commenting without even reading the first sentence of the article.... it was a woman guys, ''HE didnt have it turned to landscape mode''.........
epic win.
Someone made a comment in youtube that he used auto-correction and he did, saw the "razor" word as spelled "rwzor" initially. Wonder if the one who broke the record using swype had auto-correction as well. We should compare apples to apples, the record for qwerty and non-qwerty keypads should be separate.
Call me when something worth a shit happens.
Someone made a comment in youtube that he used auto-correction and he did, saw the "razor" word as spelled "rwzor" initially. Wonder if the one who broke the record using swype had auto-correction as well. We should compare apples to apples, the record for qwerty and non-qwerty keypads should be separate.
I think that in order to qualify for the record, you need to be able to spell, too. That, and I think there needs to be a ton of special characters in the mix just to make it tougher.
WHY WHY MUST IT BE THE IPHONE 4. We won't hear the end of this from the apple fanboys.
You won't hear it because they won't be able to call you to tell you
they type it so fast but it will fail when sending because it's obvious that they are holding it wrong.
"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."
... I concur.
I think that in order to qualify for the record, you need to be able to spell, too. That, and I think there needs to be a ton of special characters in the mix just to make it tougher.
Autocorrect/predictive text must be turned off, otherwise the record doesn't count.
good thing the world record doesnt include sending the text, otherwise he will have to hold his phone differently!
wow, just wow
If you can count using a querty screen thing rather than the traditional phone pads without it being a new record, shouldn't someone with a proper keyboard take this up (email~text?)? Personally I'd never remember how to spell the names, but it doesn't look very long as texts go.
well, i'll beat him in guitar hero. does that make me the superior person?short answer-YES
can you teach me? i'm awfull at some solos.
fast texting dude, damn. wonder how he texts while driving, doh!
He could have just called someone and said that faster still...
one word for brian: arthritis.
Give credit when it is due people. I don't remember so many sour grapes comments when Galaxy S broke the record. If you don't like Brian's effort, post a YouTube video of yourself beating him on your Android or something.
Someone made a comment in youtube that he used auto-correction and he did, saw the "razor" word as spelled "rwzor" initially. Wonder if the one who broke the record using swype had auto-correction as well. We should compare apples to apples, the record for qwerty and non-qwerty keypads should be separate.
I use Swype, and auto-correction as you put it, is basically fundamental to it's operation. Since you are dragging your finger across multiple letters in one continuous motion to spell a word, you are going over many letters that are not part of your word. It is then up to the Swype software to "calculate" from it's dictionary, the most likely word you wanted to spell out. In fact I bet more often than not, more letters are kept out than used, to create the final word (this is besides the point though). Point is, you can not use Swype without "auto-correction". However, you can configure it's settings so that it is gives you less or more margin of error on the accuracy of the path you drag your fingers across the keyboard. I have not tested it's effect, as I have had no issues using the default setting.
So in other words, IF texting using Swype can quality for a world record, then they should allow auto-correction using other input methods too I guess. It's a gray area I guess... hmmm..
Me: I JUST BROKE THE TEXTING WORLD RECORD by 10 seconds!!
Guinness: What device?
Me: HTC..
Guinness: Invalid.
Me: What?
Guinness: fruit or die.