Interesting speed test

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

i think it should be noted the guy with teh cell phone wasn't using a qwerty keyboard...

even with my HTC TyTN (ATT 8525... unfortunately my BlackBerry 8800 passed away tonight...) im able to type that message in under 30 seconds

im sure with my 8800, it would be somewhere between 18-22 seconds

Yes, but you have a few unfair advantages. For one, you knew the message at least a minute before you ever started texting. This would lead to a possible 5 second difference. Furthermore, use of a qwerty keyboard would be typing not texting. There is a difference.

Besides if you watch the video closer, you will notice that the morse code team did it in 20 seconds. Even with the use of a keyboard, advance notice of the message, and your own approximation it would still be a toss up.

Further break down: The message was 11 words long and transferred in about 20 seconds. This means that he was sending at about 1.8 sec/word. That is 39 letters. So approximately 2 letters every second. This is an amazing pace. All of this is neglecting any spaces and such. Now, I realize that in reality he probably abbreviated alot. Even if he was able to break it down to 20 letters.(which would be very hard to do and still leave the message legible) He would still be sending at 1 letter a second.

I, for one, think we have to admit it. For absolute speed, old school has our tech beat. For now, that is. This is one of those cases where you win some, you lose some. But you learn a lot more from the losses.

A side note: I would be interested to see how far along the kid was to finishing the message. Wish they told that.