"Ha Mok-min and another young South Korean, Bae Yeong-ho, recently conquered the world with their thumbs. Their Team Korea won an international competition held in New York this month to determine who can send text messages the fastest — and most accurately — on a cellphone.
“When others watch me texting, they think I’m not that fast and they can do better,” said Mr. Bae, 17, a high school dropout who dyes his hair a light chestnut color and is studying to be an opera singer. “So far, I’ve never lost a match.”
In the New York competition he typed six characters a second. “If I can think faster I can type faster,” he said.
The inaugural Mobile World Cup, hosted by the South Korean cellphone maker LG Electronics, brought together two-person teams from 13 countries who had clinched their national titles by beating a total of six million contestants.
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It's these types of articles that make me wonder about opportunities that I've thrown away. Team Korea brought home $100K for fast typing. Fast typing! Where was that when I was going through Typing 101 in middle school? And what about those teenage years where I talked really fast? It was cool. But then again I also thought Burkenstocks and Sun-In dyed hair was cool too. Just think, I could have been the next John Moschitta, Jr. (you know, Mr. FedEx), except I didn't have any glorious, money grubbing reasons to keep it going. That and my friends never understood me.
