Woman sets world record for sending text messages

A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages.

Kimberly Yeo thumbed 26 words in 43.24s on her cellphone, beating a world record of 67s for the same words set by a Briton last September.


At a contest in front of a department store, Yeo was among 125 people timed by SingTel and a panel of independent officials to see how fast they could type the following 160-character message:

"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."

Predictive text and other texting aids were banned.

SingTel said it would submit Yeo's time to Guinness World Records.


Yeo, who won S$17,500 ($16,320) in cash for her nimble thumbs, said she sent an average of 1500 text messages a month to friends and family.