SMS World Cup

Girls types better

When it comes to flash, girls have a better hand. What you always suspected in the content, is also valid for speed and accuracy, as shown in an international SMS contest in New York: On the first places in almost landed only participants.

"The girls are faster because their hands are smaller," said U.S. champion Kate Moore, who arrived Thursday at the LG Mobile World Cup, along with his 14-year-old teammate Morgan DYNDA to second place. "My hands are perfect for textbooks," said the 16-year-old. " Thin, long fingers. And soon, of course. "Kate Moore creates up to 3.5 letters per second. Of course it is also a matter of practice - Moore sent home on average every month 12,000 SMS messages.

But South Korea is apparently still diligently ledge. And so, two teenagers from the Far East won the first prize in the competition: On 17, an aspiring opera singer Bae Yeong Ho and 18 years old student, Mok Ha Min, of the 26 finalists were the fastest and now the price of $ 100,000 (69,000 euros) to take home. In third place came a quartet thumb Argentines, the Brazilians were fourth. In Europe, only Spain, Portugal and Russia were represented at the final round. In the preliminary rounds of May, more than 200,000 SMS athletes with this.

A monitor at Gotham Hall in Manhattan, noted that the respective tasks in the language of that as soon as possible and had to be written on a mobile phone without typing. As petty little more, the goal and contained a few typos, which are accepted. All participants had the same model of the organizers, which was sent to the practice before.

Kate Moore's example shows that text messages should not necessarily be sozialfeindlich: "It completely distracts me from my face to face life. I can talk at once, and the texts without looking at the phone."