Friday, November 13, 2009

Day 19 Blog

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2709146/fastest_text_message/

This young man is trying to beat the guiness world record for text messaging. He has to type in the phrase in less than 43 seconds. Can he do it? Can you do it?

What about texting with your eyes closed like the blind man you watched last day. Text message yourself the following phrase without looking at your keypad.
"I am doing this blindly! What will it look like?"

30 comments:

mason bush said...

i got around 50 seconds but with around 6 mistakes. and my phone couldnt hold the last 3 words.

Miranda L said...

I got the phrase in under a minute... on a computer keyboard. Texting I would have taken a little longer. Texting blindly - I have no idea if I could do that.

Boiwmanm said...

The guiness book of world record texting is very fast. I can type blindly surprisingly well. To type that in 43 second must have been difficult.

Marisa said...

I tried to type the statment but my phone froze when i was writting toothed, so that didn't work out to well. I did pretty good typing blindly but i did get one word wrong.

cody y said...

Both of these two challenges were quite difficult. I do not think i would be able to beat the world record. Texting blindly was not as hard as I thought it would be but it definately has its challenges to it.

scott said...

I couldn't type the message in less then 43 seconds.

I did alright texting blindly but I'd rather not.

Dallas said...

I no I couldn't beat the world record, but this guy got close.

Texting with my eyes closed isn't to hard and I can do that.

Ashley L said...

My timing was very bad for compared to the person who is the fastest texter in the world. When I typed it blindly I did alright I only had one word wrong, it wasn't that hard but it was hard enough.

bohnc said...

The guy was unable to complete the phrase in 43 seconds.When I tried to do this and it took me 1 minute 20 seconds. The blind guy typing is pretty cool because it would've taken a lot of prectice to be able to do that.

Dominick said...

I think the young man that tried this texting record is crazy. The amount of time he spent texting to get ready for this must of been insane. As for the blind texting it is very difficult because all u can do is feel the keys.

levi said...

Unless you have practiced that statement, that text message would be very difficult to do. THis is because of all the large words that are hard to spell. THe blind texting i think is very easy.

Kenton D said...

I think that the people that break these world records are crazy. They would spend so much time texting that it probably takes away some of there life. When I tried to text blindly I got three quarters of my sentence correct, but once I reached the end I failed.

Tanner P said...

I can't text a hard phrase because I had to look up and text and look up again. I can text really fast without looking if I know what I am saying. The record is amazing because you need a lot of practise to text that fast. I had trouble texting blindly because I don't have any practise doing it that way.

amber b said...

He didn't beat the World record but he was still fast. I don't know if I should be comenting on this because I don't have a cell phone so others might not think it's that fast. I couldn't get anything close to that. With the texting with your eyes closed I have to say that I admire him now. I couldn't even text that fast if I had my eyes open.

Dalton F said...

Texting or typing blindly is alot harder than it looks. Although i did do the blind typing perfectly. only once though.

Amy S. said...

The man trying to do that phrase did not quit do it but he was very close. When i tryed it my phone could not hold all the words in the phrase. when i did the two sentences blindly i did really good and did not screw up.

Shelby P said...

I typed the phrase on a keyboard and got 45 seconds without any mistakes. Typing it blindly would be extremely hard, on a cell-phone even harder. Typing that phrase in 43 seconds for a record seems just at the point of possible.

Tynneal said...

I didnt use my cellphone, i used the computer and i got less than a minute, with no mistakes but when i did it blindy i had a few.

Jesse G said...

No he can't and no i can't. I think i can text with my eyes closed,it would be a challenge.

Freedom E said...

With the paragraph my phone couldnt hoole all the words, it was pretty hard because some of the words were kinda hard to spell. I could to the two sentances with-out looking. That wasnt hard for me.

Kennedy e said...

That is super fast typing! It took me about 2 minutes to type that phrase. I couldn't hold the last 3 words tho. For typing blindly, I got it very well with only one mistake.

glenn said...

When I typed the phrase on the computer, I typed it in about 40 seconds. When I typed the other sentences without looking, I messed up one word.

kolt k said...

i do not see how they can text that fast. thats crazy.

Jake G. said...

I can probably text that in about 49 seconds if i had the right phone, but this fast texting skill seems kind of useless and i wouldn't wanna practice it.

Texting/Typing Blindly wouldn't be that much of a challenge.

Allyssa A. said...

He is amazingly fast at txting! I thought we were supposed to do both of them blind so i did it! haha but i did ok. I typed it all in like a min and 20 seconds for the first one.

stacey said...

I couldn't type the message in less then 43 seconds. When i was texting with my eyes closed i got the first sentence right but on the second sentence i got some mistakes.

RebeccaC said...

When I was typing the phrase I got around a minute with a couple mistakes. When I was texting the blind statement I got every word write but not one symbol.

sherwoodt said...

text or typing is not that easy. some people are fast and some people are slow. but it is harder to text blindly them looking right at it.

Ironstand said...

My timing was very bad for compared to the person who is the fastest texter in the world. When I typed it blindly I did alright I only had one word wrong, it wasn't that hard but it was hard enough.

GavinT said...

Wow that phrase is long and hard it takes a while to type it and you will get mistakes so to type that in 43 seconds with no mistakes is amazing, I can't text blindly I would have so many mistakes