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Default 04-14-2009, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark Rejhon View Post
YouTube video of me doing 75 words per minute
YouTube - 75 Words Per Minute on BlackBerry!

That includes several corrections. With some practice, I should be able to exceed 80 words per minute. We need get RIM to sponsor a group of us for a speed thumbtyping competition sometime in the month of June, and have Guiness Book of World Records there. I have submitted an application to Guiness about a June 17th record attempt in Ottawa in front of A-Channel, but I'm open to other ideas such as going to Waterloo if RIM steps up to the homeplate.

How about it, RIM? Sponsor a competition. Invite me too. The world record should belong to BlackBerry users.
Perhaps a charity, payable to a deaf charity such as National Association of Deaf or Canadian Hearing Society, as I am hearing impaired?

Dethrone other silly smartphones such as TREO being mentioned in the Book. The CrackBerry needs to be in *the* Book by next year, pronto. Even if it's not me. Agree?

I will be a happy participant of such a competition.

The app typerspeed (not sure how accurate it is) puts me in the 80s on the Bold with a peak at 92, on the javelin about 10wpm slower, and the Storm right at the 50-55 mark.
   
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