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The World’s Fastest Text Messager

By Staff -- School Library Journal, 12/1/2006

How long would it take you to type a 160- character text message? It took 16-year-old Singaporean student Ang Chuang Yang 41.52 seconds—and he broke the Guinness World Record. “I’ll try for 39 seconds next year,” says Ang, who beat the previous record of 42.22 seconds set by American Ben Cook in July. Short message service (SMS) competitions around the world use the same SMS text provided by the Guinness organization: “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.”

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