13-year-old Wins US Texting Champion With $25000 Prize

Morgan Pozgar , a 13-year-old girl from Claysburg of Pennsylvania, was crowned the US Texting Champion together with a top prize of $25,000 at an message typing contest in New York after beating 250 competitors from across the country.

She clinched the title with a quickfire error-free rendition of 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious'.

In the final, Morgan at first seemed to have been beaten by Eli Tirosh, a 21-year-old law student from Los Angels, who put down her mobile phone first, only for the judges to rule that she had made a typing error.

She trained by sending on average 8,000 text messages a month to her friends - that rate equates one every five and a half minutes. She pays $US10 a month for an unlimited text package on her mobile phone.

The girl plans to do some shopping with her prize money in Manhaton, while her mother has already eyed it for her college fund.

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