Kimberly Yeo, of Singapore, thumbed 26 words in 43.24 seconds into her phone, besting the existing world record of 67 seconds for the same words set by a Briton last September.

[from MSNBC - New record claimed for text message]

Yeo, who won a S$17,500 ($10,250) in cash for her nimble thumbs, said she sends out about an average of 1,500 text messages a month to friends and family.

The text included upper and lower case letters, and is destined to be the 'quick brown fox' of our time: "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."

[Pointer from Boing Boing]