National Texting Championship (yes, really)

Last year (the 1st year), the prize was $25,000. The winner was 13 year old Morgan Pozgar from Claysburg, PA (she said she sends 4000 text messages each month), who needed just 42 seconds to type this:

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocios! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious."

This year the prize was $50,000! And the winner is 20 year old Nathan Schwartz of Clyde, Ohio, who needed 60 seconds to type this:

"Does everybody here know the alphabet? Let's text. Here it goes ... AbcDeFghiJKlmNoPQrStuvWXy & Z! Now I know my A-B-C's, next time won't you text with me?"

The contest is sponsored by LG electronics. The contest was called "Down and Dirty with the QWERTY" because the phones used have the full - QWERTY - keyboard rather than the traditional phone keypad.