The winners in the World Championship set sms were teenagers from South Korea

Teens from South Korea became the world champions in the competition for high-speed writing of sms-messages-General sponsored by naikrupneyshy manufacturer of electronics and electrical LG Electronics, and brought home the prize at a rate of 100 thousand U.S. dollars, said on Friday the South American edition New York Post.

The jury held in New York contest judged by participants at the speed of typing, and the absence of spelling errors and typos.

The winners of the competition, in which contestants participated from several countries in the world, were 17-year-old Bae-Yong-Ho (Bae Yeong Ho) and eighteen-year-Mok Ha Min (Ha Mok Min).

Second place went to sixteen-American Keith Moore, in 2009 became the U.S. champion in this "sport", and her compatriot, chetyrnatsatiletny Morgan d'Inde.

The Argentine team won the competition, bronze and fourth place was taken by the Brazilian team.

Competitors were invited to write messages in different languages - in fact in competition participated by the representatives of Russia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Portugal, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Mexico and Spain. At the end of the competition were selected by 26 people, and enrollment filed 200 tysch comers.

The rate of character set winners are not reported, but the American Moore, who won the silver, "wrote the message with an average speed of 3.5 characters per second. She said the NY Times, that for the month she sends about 12 tysch sms-messages.

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