Yesterday a 27-year-old British lady broke the world record in fast typing on a mobile phone, typing 160 characters in just under 26 seconds. Using a Swype-enabled Samsung I9000 Galaxy S Melissa Thompson managed to better the previous best achievement by 9.6 seconds.

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Originally Posted by alextrob

This is the phrase they use to determine world records:


I can do it in about 48s on my iPhone, with my iPhone automagically learning how to spell Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus and offering them as predictions after a few attempts.

Yup, all that stuff has to be turned off, all predicative spell checking, etc for the record - also it has to be on a official certified device, I don't think the iPhone has been used for it before.

I'm surprised Swype is allowed to be honest.