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Originally Posted by Mark Rejhon
RIM needs to sponsor you as well 
Better upload some YouTube too.
I'll definitely need to practice to go neck-to-neck, especially with the razor-toothed piranhas of Serrasalmus (the standard 160-character speed texting competition phrase, which Guiness also uses). Of course, unless you want me to get this year's record and you try for next year's. Stopwatches in the background would be an asset.
TyperSpeed, while not perfect, does use the 5 character per word standard, but can also be calculated externally using a stopwatch and the number of character of a phrase. From the YouTube video, it seemed to be accurate, when I also measured with the external stopwatch (the time when I started, the time when I stopped, and the number of characters). But the TyperSpeed I was using wasn't using the standard speedtexting phrase, but I've requested the author to add the razortooth paragraph... |
While I have no interest in the Guiness book of Records I wish you the best of luck. Definitely keep us posted on how you do. If the test is only 160 characters it should be relatively easy, the hard part would be if they change up the phrase. At a certain point it becomes memorization and no longer typing while reading. Much more entertaining if you are given a random phrase (the same to all contestants) 30 seconds before the test and then see how everyone does.