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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo
As we all know, there are far faster methods of sending messages than Morse code, or even SMS for that matter. Anyone have a gigabit LAN? And boomergeek has designed network equipment for even faster messaging.
Considering that, the contention here is not that CW is fast. It's faster than the world-champion texters on the Leno show, compared to two moderately proficient Hams. But, as boomergeek stated, it was contrived. Please. 
It was an interesting discussion, but now it's getting a little contentious for me. |
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world record is a gimmick because the Guinness World Record requires a 12 key keypad. Anyone serious about fast cellphone texting for at least the past 8 years uses a full keyboard: basically cloned from blackberries which was the real portable emailer of the 1990s. We can agree to disagree that that makes any difference as to whether the Leno demo is showing a nostalgic convenience winning against a modern one or just two nostalgic conveniences. I don't think you could convince anyone that actually uses a qwerty cellphone or a blackberry that the texting race included a realistic or even interesting set of competitors.
Maybe I'm all wet: Any qwerty texters out there impressed with texting speed races against 12 key keypads?
BTW, Here is a 25 second run of the world record sentence using qwerty by a random youtuber (as compared to the 40+ second "world record" with a 12 key).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YqG...eature=related
