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ComicalMoodyDan · 06-18-2009, 2:52 PM

15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000
BY TERRENCE O'BRIEN JUN 17TH 2009 AT 3:21PM

Each year, LG holds its National Texting Championships in New York City, and SMS fiends gather from around the country to battle for thumb-dexterity supremacy. This year's champ, 15-year-old Kate Moore of Des Moines, Iowa, took the title, but her path to victory was not without some serious obstacles. Literally.

LG, in a nod to texters' dangerous tendency to multi-task, forced contestants to run an obstacle course while sending difficult-to-type messages, and compose tongue twisters while being taunted by a giant emoticon. We can't make this stuff up.

The event climaxed in a tie-breaker, with Moore and runner up Dynda Morgan, a 14-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, furiously texting this behemoth SMS:
"Zippity Dooo Dahh Zippity Ayy...MY oh MY, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine Comin' my way....Zippitty Do Dah Zippity Aay! WondeRful Feeling Wonderful day!"

Moore beat her younger competitor to the "send" button, and walked away with $50,000 for her troubles -- and a life-long excuse for not putting down her phone during dinner. [From: CNN, Via: CNET]

15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000

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ComicalMoodyDan Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kingsport, TN Posts: 6,072 Phone(s): Samsung Gravity 2, Samsung Smooth Provider(s): T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Devices: T-Mobile @Home Thanks: 0 Thanked 20 Times in 15 Posts	15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000 15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000 BY TERRENCE O'BRIEN JUN 17TH 2009 AT 3:21PM Each year, LG holds its National Texting Championships in New York City, and SMS fiends gather from around the country to battle for thumb-dexterity supremacy. This year's champ, 15-year-old Kate Moore of Des Moines, Iowa, took the title, but her path to victory was not without some serious obstacles. Literally. LG, in a nod to texters' dangerous tendency to multi-task, forced contestants to run an obstacle course while sending difficult-to-type messages, and compose tongue twisters while being taunted by a giant emoticon. We can't make this stuff up. The event climaxed in a tie-breaker, with Moore and runner up Dynda Morgan, a 14-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, furiously texting this behemoth SMS: "Zippity Dooo Dahh Zippity Ayy...MY oh MY, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine Comin' my way....Zippitty Do Dah Zippity Aay! WondeRful Feeling Wonderful day!" Moore beat her younger competitor to the "send" button, and walked away with $50,000 for her troubles -- and a life-long excuse for not putting down her phone during dinner. [From: CNN, Via: CNET] 15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000

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