Filed under typing...

How I won a world record and my weight in chocolate

When people hear about my typing record, they have a lot of questions – so I thought I’d kick off the new blog by typing up some answers to the common ones. Yes, typing them up. I wasn't going to write them on the back of a napkin, was I. I'm rubbish at that.

Joel, are you the fastest typist in the world?!

Not exactly. According to Guinness World Records, I'm the fastest person ever to type five sentences – in 18.33s.

How did you manage that?

It was part of a competition held by Cadbury in March. As the ‘official snack provider’ to the 2012 Olympic games (yes, really) they are running ‘Spots v Stripes’ – a campaign designed to get people off their arses and highlight the fact that snacks aren’t just for fatties. Wanting to get involved – but being a bit of a fatty myself – I plumped for the online typing challenge, bagging first place after a few attempts, and all without actually getting off my arse.

Read the rest of this post »