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How fast R U? Teen Iowa girl wins US texting title
AP – Kate Moore, of Des Moines, holds the LG U.S. National Texting Championship trophy, Tuesday, June 16, … .By SAMANTHA GROSS, Associated Press Writer Samantha Gross, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jun 16, 7:44 pm ET
NEW YORK – The nation's newest texting champion has a message for parents across the land — although they might not want to hear it.

"Let your kid text during dinner! Let your kid text during school! It pays off," 15-year-old Kate Moore said Tuesday after winning the LG U.S. National Texting Championship.

After all, she said: "Your kid could win money and publicity and a phone."

For the Des Moines, Iowa, teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the competition prize of $50,000 just eight months after she got her first cell phone.

Moore, with a speedy and accurate performance, beat out 20 other finalists from around the country over two days of challenges such as texting blindfolded and texting while maneuvering through a moving obstacle course.

In the final showdown, she outtexted 14-year-old Morgan Dynda, of Savannah, Ga. Both girls had to text three lengthy phrases without making any mistakes on the required abbreviations, capitalization or punctuation. Moore squeaked through by a few seconds on the tiebreaking text, getting the best two out of three. As she anxiously waited for confirmation of her win, tears streamed down her face.

The teen dismisses the idea that she focuses too much on virtual communications, saying that while she has sometimes had her phone taken away from her in school, she keeps good grades, performs in school plays and socializes with friends — in person — on the weekends.

In between, she finds time to send about 400 to 470 texts a day. Among her uses of the text messages? Studying for exams with friends, which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages to review.

The finalists, all 22 or younger, were among 250,000 people who tried to get spots in the competition. Some won their spots at the Manhattan finals by being the fastest people to text responses to televised ads.

It's the third year for the texting competition, sponsored by LG Electronics Inc.'s mobile-phones division. But it's the first time that it was held at a flashy sound stage with an illuminated platform and surrounded by TV cameras. LG, based in Seoul, South Korea, is considering using the footage in a televised special of some kind.

Twenty-year-old Jackie Boyd, who came in fifth in the competition, said she usually prefers text messages to phone calls because they get through faster and they're more private — leaving her unworried about other people listening in.

"You can get more of what you really truly want to say" across with texting, said the Syracuse University psychology major. "Especially if it's an argument, you don't have to worry about saying the wrong thing.

"And if you don't want to respond, you can always say, 'Oh, I didn't get your text.'"
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6/17/2009 12:41:37 AM

wawebste
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15 minutes...so sad

6/17/2009 12:43:03 AM

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Man, this is freakin sad

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"In the final showdown, she outtexted 14-year-old Morgan Dynda, of Savannah, Ga. Both girls had to text three lengthy phrases without making any mistakes on the required abbreviations, capitalization or punctuation. Moore squeaked through by a few seconds on the tiebreaking text, getting the best two out of three. As she anxiously waited for confirmation of her win, tears streamed down her face."


WORST. COMPETITION. EVER.

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM. Reason : wtf???]

6/17/2009 12:44:23 AM

abbradsh
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carpal tunnel

6/17/2009 12:45:43 AM

goalielax
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so what are we guessing here...an average of 5 seconds per text she sends? nearly 20 hours a month sending texts? over a full waking day?

6/17/2009 12:50:38 AM

TaterSalad
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EAT SHIT SPELLING BEE

6/17/2009 12:53:43 AM

j_sun
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nothing typed by someone's thumbs has ever been important

6/17/2009 2:41:42 AM

khcadwal
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maybe i'm just stuck in the past but i'd be pissed if my kid texted during dinner.

i don't even like when my boyfriend plays with his phone during dinner. i mean. it just seems rude.

oh, and this is the dumbest thing (competition?) i've ever heard of

6/17/2009 2:42:19 AM

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maybe i'm too progressive but dinner was never a big deal to me like it is to ^

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 2:44 AM. Reason : maybe cause she had a super close family or something]

6/17/2009 2:43:56 AM

khcadwal
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just how i was raised. wait until everyone is served/has their food to start eating. you don't get up randomly without excusing yourself. you definitely don't bring your cellphone to the table, not that it was really an issue because i didn't have a cellphone until highschool. and you certainly don't answer it if it rings. texting under the table in the middle would be a big no no.

6/17/2009 2:45:21 AM

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Yeah dinner isn't much of a big deal to me. I'm really annoyed when people text during a conversation if its not a mutual friend or somehow a part of the conversation.

6/17/2009 2:46:22 AM

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wearing a hat was a no no for my parents

and burping and farting but thats probably common for most folks

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 2:47 AM. Reason : ^my neighbor is like that! so fucking rude]

6/17/2009 2:47:23 AM

khcadwal
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well i guess when i eat dinner with people i am usually also conversing with them. if that helps haha.

yea. hats were a no. and you had to ask to be excused when you were finished or wait for everyone else to be done.

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 2:48 AM. Reason : .]

6/17/2009 2:47:36 AM

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Texting isn't an issue at the dinner table with my family as long as you're not just sitting there staring at your phone the whole time.

But, yeah, this quote:

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"Let your kid text during dinner! Let your kid text during school! It pays off,"


Is a sure sign that the child deserves more beatings and fewer privileges. She obviously missed something somewhere along the line.

Cell phones should always be banned from being used in the public classroom and should be off during class. The argument of "but what if there's an emergency?" that I hear some students use is crap. If there's an emergency somebody will call the school and tell them to send you to the front office/to go home.

Seriously though, 14,000 texts each month? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? I bet it's all inane moron speak about boys, material goods, and devices used for vaginal insertion.

6/17/2009 3:04:59 AM

j_sun
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sexting champion

6/17/2009 3:11:59 AM

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