After holding a series of regional competitions to find the fastest texters in Canada, LG brought in representatives from across this nation's provinces including challenges from Alberta and British Columbia, but after several rounds of pounding mobile keyboards on stage in front of a live audience at Toronto's Younge and Dundas Square, Kathy Spence from Scarborough, a neighbourhood right here in Toronto, emerged as the country's texting champion and might go on to compete in Korea as our national representative.

More than 20,000 competitors gave it their best to take part in the national search which challenged users to pick up an LG texting phone and punch in complex phrases as fast as they could. Participants where timed and judged both on speed and accuracy. Spence, one of the contest's youngest and shyest competitors lit up with astonished excitement where her phone hang in the last round, signaling that she was the winner. Radiant and smiling she was given a spectacular moment in the sunshine as photographers coaxed into defiant poses against the city's tall buildings with a massive novelty cheque in her hand. Kudos has to go out to LG for assembling a show with tremendous pomp and circumstance, laying out the red carpet, bringing in comedienne Nicole Arbour to host, holding fun competitions for the kids' parents, and creating an atmosphere where all the participants were given their moment to strut and be profiled. Congratulations to Kathy who can now say that she has the fastest fingers in the country.