Gaurav Sharma appeared relaxed but focused in his purple hoodie on Jan. 16, 2014. Less than 20 seconds later, Sharma, a 15-year-old from Lakeside High School in Seattle, found himself the owner of a Guinness World Record® for fastest text message using a touch-screen mobile phone.
Gaurav Sharma displays the Guinness World Records certificate that declares him the world's fastest texter.
Word Flow with shape writing, the same Microsoft Research technology that powered Sharma’s record-setting effort, soon will be available for mobile-phone users as a key feature in the just-announced Windows Phone 8.1.
Sharma’s time of 18.44 seconds to create a challenging, 25-word text message is quite a marvel. In three-quarters of a second less than it took sprinter Usain Bolt to set the world record in the 200 meters in the 2009 World Championships, Sharma whipped through:
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.
That passage—precisely 160 characters long—is a handful to type, but not if you’re using Word Flow—an earlier version of which had been used to set the previous text-speed record.
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