[RVRC] So there's a champion Texter in the USA!

[N2GJ_AMSAT]

   Do we get $50K or $10K if we beat him with CW? (reported by Don/AA2F)

   NEW YORK (AP) - A 17-year-old boy who says he has "abnormally fast
   thumbs"
   has been named the fastest texter in America for the second year in a
   row.

   "It feels incredible," said Austin Wierschke of Rhinelander, Wis., after
   winning the sixth annual U.S. LG National Texting Competition in Times
   Square on Wednesday. He gets $50,000 in prize money, which he says he'll
   save and use to pay for college, along with the $50,000 he won last year.

   Eleven contestants from around the U.S. competed, all using the same
   type of
   cellphone, an LG Optimus Zip phone with QWERTY keyboard. Cellphone-maker
   LG
   Electronics sponsored the contest.

   The competition tested three skills — speed, accuracy and dexterity — on
   four different challenges. They were "do you know text speak?", in which
   contestants had to spell out text abbreviations; texting while
   blind-folded;
   "text blitz," where phrases were shown to the contestants for a length
   of
   time and they copied them as fast as they could; and texting backward,
   where
   jumbled words were given to the contestants and they had to figure out
   the
   word.



   73

GJ
Gerry Jurrens N2GJ
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