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Text messaging is far too slow for me, what with having to press '7' four times to get an S (five times for a 7). But it seems that folks in Singapore have practiced enough to get rather quick at text messaging. And then there were the fastest fingers in the far east. 23-year-old student Kimberly Yeo needed only 43.66 seconds to type this phrase on her phone:

"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

Yes, it was a world record