Texting is a strange thing. Utterly ubiquitous yet strangely individual, some can rattle off a message faster than they can speak, while others struggle to punctuate or TURN OFF CAPS, such as Sneak's Mum.

For one English woman, a 27-year-old from Salford by the name of Melissa Thompson, the former is most certainly the case after she broke the world record for the fastest ever text message, writing one out in a thumb-aching speed of 25s 94ms.

She wrote the common message, "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," in what was no way a marketing tie in to the launch of Piranha 3D.

In reality, of course, the message translates to: "Jst saw Piranha 3D, cld never happen IRL [in real life]. Stupid".

Sneak was disappointed to learn, however, that it's something of a hollow victory, as far from using the classic "bash-the-keypad" style so well known to Nokia owners of the past ten years (and we've all been there), Thompson used a fancy SWYPE system on a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. Cheat.

The Telegraph reported that Thompson said she was feeling "GR8" after she won but does that mean she actually said G R 8, or have they worked in a clever text message pun?

23 Aug 2010