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hey guys it's Brandon minute from pocketnow.com and this is the pocket now fast fingers contest a silly name indeed but the stakes are high because if you win we will send you any phone that you want for free wherever you are in the world so if you want the new Nexus S or you want the Droid X or the Palm Pre - we'll send it to you if you win this competition this competition is all about speed entering text into your smartphone we want to see who out there can enter text faster than anyone and here's what you have to do film yourself recording the phrase and the phrase will be listed in the description and I'm gonna demonstrate exactly the phrase in a second film yourself typing this phrase onto your smartphone with a stopwatch in the frame and we're gonna use the stop much to make sure that no one's cheating to make sure that everything is on a level playing field no one's fast forwarding the video the person that types the phrase in the fastest amount of time wins you're going to want to put the amount of time it took you to type the phrase within the description of your video response now you can't use an external Bluetooth keyboard or something like that you must use a keyboard method or a method of input that you can preload onto your phone so you can use swipe you can use the hardware keyboard if you want the on-screen keyboard the landscape keyboard or any other text entry method that is out there that is not external so right now I'm going to demonstrate exactly how an entry might look I'm going to try typing the phrase as fast as I possibly can on the Dell Venue Pro be right back okay so here's the phrase it says this is my entry for the pocket now fast fingers contest the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog I can type faster than you exclamation point again we're going to put all of these rules right in the description so it's clear as day I should also mention that if you misspell a word one second will be added to your score that is so that we can also go for accuracy it really doesn't make sense if you're going to type this phrase and it's completely incorrect so I'm going to demonstrate how this should go I've got a stopwatch here off off to the left and you can use a kitchen timer or a watch or something that is visible on the frame we just want to make sure we can see the stopwatch go and the progression of seconds so I'm going to start the stopwatch and I'm going to open a new email and for this contest you must do it in a new email so that there's plenty of screens to see and here we go a little bit nervous here but let's see how fast I can do I'm gonna hit start and when it gets to ten seconds I'm going to begin stop 32 seconds okay so that was about or exactly 22 seconds let's see how many errors I got this is my entry for the pocket now one err fingers contest two errors so far adding two seconds to put brown fox jumped away dog I can type faster than you okay so that is two errors and we had 22 seconds so that makes for a score of 24 seconds see if you can beat me again all of the rules to this contest are going to be right in the description and if you win we're gonna send you any phone that you want who is the fastest fingers out there let's find out