With text talk taking over the world, a schoolboy has been crowned fastest on the block.
Eleven-year-old Reece Price, of Wethersfield Way, Wickford, has been crowned the king of text messages by becoming the first phones 4u Mobile Phone Olympic Champion.
Reece's fast fingers beat more than ten thousand competitors during an event at Clapham Common, London.
One of the four challenges was copying an 80 character message, which Reece did in 56 seconds.
Published Monday, August 4, 2003
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