Each team consisted of two competitors — one who specialized in numeric keypads, the other in QWERTY. Games intended to measure texting speed and efficiency were conceived for the event. The South Koreans (teenagers Young-Ho Bae and Mok-Min Hatook) took home the $100,000 first place prize, the Americans (Morgan Dynda and Kate Moore) came in second to win $20,000, and Argentinians Juan Ignacio Aufranc and Agustina Montegna placed third for $10,000.
One of the events at the Mobile World Cup involved trying to set a new Guinness World Record for texting speed. The existing record was successfully broken when Portuguese competitor Pedro Matias typed a 264-character message in one minute and 59 seconds — that's 23 seconds faster than the record set by Arttu Harkki in 2005. That was with a QWERTY keypad, though. You can say it would have been more impressive on a numeric keypad, but we challenge you to do better. Here's a quick promotional video covering the event.