Okay, okay, I’ve got some trouble when I’m texting people using my phone’s touchscreen. But somehow I get the idea that Eduard Saakashvili won’t have any trouble with that.
The 15-year-old kid from Georgia (the country, not the state) has set a new Guinness World Record for fastest typing on an iPad. I wonder if he’s made his dad proud; I mean, he’s none other than the son of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Fast fingers doth a good politician’s son make?
Eduard managed to type the whole alphabet on an iPad in just 5.26 seconds – which is far, far quicker than what it took me to write this article on a character-per-second basis (hey, I went sans my coffee this morning, okay?). He beat the previous record held by Charlie Joseph McDonnell, another British teenager, by over a full second.
Yup, teenagers these days. Always glued to their phones. You know, when I was your age… well, actually, I had a cell phone. But I guess tablets are the new thing.
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