National Texting Championship – Kate Moore, the winner of the 2009 U.S. National Texting Championship, has a message for parents across the land — although they may not want to hear it.
After winning the LG U.S. National Texting Championship Tuesday, 15-year old Kate Moore chortled, “Let your kid text during dinner! Let your kid text during school! It pays off!”
For the Des Moines, Iowa, teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the winner’s prize of $50,000 just eight months after she got her first cell phone.
Moore, with a speedy and accurate performance, beat out 20 other finalists from around the country over two days of challenges such as texting blindfolded and texting while maneuvering through a moving obstacle course.
In the final showdown, she outtexted 14-year-old Morgan Dynda, of Savannah, Ga. Both girls had to text three lengthy phrases without making any mistakes on the required abbreviations, capitalization or punctuation. Moore squeaked through by a few seconds on the tiebreaking text, getting the best two out of three. As she anxiously waited for confirmation of her win, tears streamed down her face.
The 15-year old teen dismisses the idea that she focuses too much on virtual communications, saying that while she has sometimes had her phone taken away from her in school, she keeps good grades, performs in school plays and socializes with friends — in person — on the weekends.
In between, she finds time to send about 400 to 470 texts a day. Among her uses of the text messages? Studying for exams with friends, which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages to review.
The finalists, all 22 or younger, were among 250,000 people who tried to get spots in the competition. Some won their spots at the Manhattan finals by being the fastest people to text responses to televised ads.
It’s the third year for the national texting competition, sponsored by LG Electronics Inc.’s mobile-phones division. But it’s the first time that it was held at a flashy sound stage with an illuminated platform and surrounded by TV cameras.
And that’s the latest on 15-year old Kate Moore winning the 2009 National Texting Championship.
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June 17th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
14,000 texts a month huh? No wonder she can out-text everybody else!!!
July 18th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
I would like to disagree with this post. It just doesnt seem fair that a girl who’s only had a cell phone for nine months can out-text everybody….
November 28th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I had a tough time trying to find a 50 inch hdtv but I finally found it and bought it online