Ben Cook, 18, from Utah sets text-messaging record on July 28,2006. . A Utah teen with fingers of fury is once again the speed text-messaging king of the world. Ben Cook, 18, of Provo, Utah, returned to the top of the cell-phone text-messaging competition last Friday at a water park in Denver, blazing through a 160-character standardized message in 42.22 seconds. The phrase used for purposes of professional, competition texting is: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." The feat was recorded on video and scored by an official timekeeper, validating it for Guinness World Records purposes, said Sara Spaulding, spokeswoman for event sponsor Jump Mobile. Text messaging, already popular with teenagers, is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S., jumping from 2.9 billion a month in 2004 to about 7.3 billion a month in December 2005, according to a survey by the CTIA , the wireless industry's trade group. Cook in 2004 snagged the world record by texting the official phrase in 57.75 seconds, a record that soon fell. Before Cook's feat Friday, the record was held by a 23-year-old woman from Singapore at 43.24 seconds set on June 27, 2004.   (Agencies)

猶他州的一名“神指”少年再次成為世界上發(fā)短信速度最快的人。 上周五，在美國（科羅拉多州首府）丹佛的一座水上公園舉行的手機短信輸入大賽中，來自猶他州普羅沃市18歲的本·庫克再次問鼎比賽冠軍。他僅用42.22秒就輸入了160個字符的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)短信。 這條專門用于比賽的專業(yè)短信的全文是：“The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”（擁有鋒利牙齒的Serrasalmus 及Pygocentrus屬水虎魚，是世界上最兇猛的淡水魚，但實際上，它們很少攻擊人類。） 大賽贊助商Jump Mobile公司的發(fā)言人莎拉·斯伯丁說，比賽全過程有現(xiàn)場錄像，并有官方計時員為選手計時，目的是為《吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄》提供依據(jù)。 據(jù)無線業(yè)行業(yè)協(xié)會CTIA（Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association）調(diào)查，原本在年輕人中十分流行的手機短信，如今在美國越來越普遍。在2004年，每月的短信數(shù)量是29億條，而到到2005年12月，單月的短信數(shù)量攀升至73億條。 2004年，庫克就曾創(chuàng)下57.75秒內(nèi)輸完規(guī)定短信的世界紀(jì)錄，但之后，此紀(jì)錄很快在當(dāng)年的6月27日被一名23歲的新加坡女子以43.24秒的成績超越。上周五，庫克以他的完美表現(xiàn)打破了那位女子保持的世界紀(jì)錄。 (英語點津姍姍編輯)