News flash: 13-year-olds can text quickly

Morgan Pozgar, a 13-year-old, won LG's National Texting Championship yesterday. Her fast fingers netted her $25,000.

Pozgar bested her East Coast competitors and won $10,000 along with the title of East Coast champ.

With little time to ice her thumbs, the 13-year-old successfully texted "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoucious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious," to beat Eli Tirosh (who won the West Coast crown).

So the next time you get on your teen's case for texting, just remember that they're in training.

[techmonkey]

So incredibly sad...

that anyone would reward someone for how fast they can type on a cellphone. With all the world's problems, society has sunk to a new low with this one. How about rewarding people for novel ideas on how to improve the world we live in?

No, instead corporations think to give $25K away to some pathetic little girl because she spends all her time (and life) wasted away on texting on a cell phone.

I'm sure her parents must be so proud.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure which is more pathetic and sad....this girl who obviously has not been encouraged to do more with her life, or her parents who obviously have not been the ones to encourage her in the first place...

Nice parenting...

[ssaujla]

wat a waste of money

the mom said she receives 8-10 thousand texts per month, how much would dat cost? damn white ppl, yall need 2 beat your kids

[heeroy7]

You sound like a hypocrit to me!!!!!!

I do agree that receiving up to 10000 texts a month is completely ridiculous. Maybe she is going to use that money to pay for her college education, maybe she will use to help her family or maybe she will give some money to her parents to pay that ridiculous texting bill. Personally i say good for her. She won the contest fair and square and all you can do is sit here and tear her down. I would like to assume that she is a good student and probably a nice person as well. It seems to me that your either angry, jealous rascist or all the above that a white person won. Should a black person have won? Maybe you should learn how to spell before you critisize others. By the way the word is "THAT" not DAT. Just thought you should know.

[Plasmoe]

so true kids outa control

I have to agree with every word of that except she probably had an Unlimited texting plan. Thats 266 texts a day. 11 texts per hour.

[Marin.Perez]

You're being too harsh

While I agree that 8-10K texts a month is ridiculous, don't act like you wouldn't have done it at that age if the technology were available. The kids today are faster and smarter than we ever were at that age, and I think that's why it stings.

As for the point that this 25K should have gone to something more worthwhile, I completely agree.

[4honor]

Why I am not surprised...

Before I even read the article, I had a feeling the winner was gonna be a girl... Geez, why now use that skill and learn to play the guitar something... sad.