Texting Record Broken Yet Again... on iPhone 4

[vaskodogama]

wow, just wow :O

 

[swamprat]

If you can count using a querty screen thing rather than the traditional phone pads without it being a new record, shouldn't someone with a proper keyboard take this up (email~text?)? Personally I'd never remember how to spell the names, but it doesn't look very long as texts go.

 

[danny69t]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]well, i'll beat him in guitar hero. does that make me the superior person?short answer-YES[/citation]
can you teach me? i'm awfull at some solos.

fast texting dude, damn. wonder how he texts while driving, doh!

 

[igot1forya]

He could have just called someone and said that faster still...

 

[mrmotion]

one word for brian: arthritis.

 

[Pei-chen]

Give credit when it is due people. I don't remember so many sour grapes comments when Galaxy S broke the record. If you don't like Brian's effort, post a YouTube video of yourself beating him on your Android or something.

 

[techcurious]

[citation][nom]party@5[/nom]Someone made a comment in youtube that he used auto-correction and he did, saw the "razor" word as spelled "rwzor" initially. Wonder if the one who broke the record using swype had auto-correction as well. We should compare apples to apples, the record for qwerty and non-qwerty keypads should be separate.[/citation]

I use Swype, and auto-correction as you put it, is basically fundamental to it's operation. Since you are dragging your finger across multiple letters in one continuous motion to spell a word, you are going over many letters that are not part of your word. It is then up to the Swype software to "calculate" from it's dictionary, the most likely word you wanted to spell out. In fact I bet more often than not, more letters are kept out than used, to create the final word (this is besides the point though). Point is, you can not use Swype without "auto-correction". However, you can configure it's settings so that it is gives you less or more margin of error on the accuracy of the path you drag your fingers across the keyboard. I have not tested it's effect, as I have had no issues using the default setting.
So in other words, IF texting using Swype can quality for a world record, then they should allow auto-correction using other input methods too I guess. It's a gray area I guess... hmmm..

 

[aaron686]

Me: I JUST BROKE THE TEXTING WORLD RECORD by 10 seconds!!

Guinness: What device?

Me: HTC..

Guinness: Invalid.

Me: What?

Guinness: fruit or die.