15-year-old wins LG's national texting championship
Kate Moore has been crowned a texting champ.
(Credit: LG)Fifteen-year-old Kate Moore won LG's third annual U.S. National Texting Championship this week. The contest finals were held in New York Tuesday, and Moore won $50,000 as well as a free LG enV3. Moore, who's from Des Moines, Iowa, attributes her success to her 14,000-texts-a-month habit.
The contest required entrants to perform a series of challenges, like texting while blindfolded and texting while going through an obstacle course. The final showdown had both finalists text three long phrases without any mistakes. However, all tasks were done with an LG enV3, which has a full QWERTY keyboard. We think it would've been a lot more interesting if they texted with normal phones with a number keypad and T9 predictive text.
LG's texting contest drew almost 250,000 applicants, and all finalists were 22 or younger.
Nicole Lee is an associate editor for CNET, covering cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and all things mobile. She's also pretty geeky--she likes World of Warcraft, comic books, and shiny gadgets. E-mail Nicole. 
I guess it's all downhill from here.
I think it's funny how "email" is like what writing a letter used to be and "texting" is like the telegraph.
Actual talking on the phone was such a fad.