The Ultimate Texting Competition: Rhett vs Link

Today we battle to see who is the. fastest texter. Let's text about that. [Music]. Good mythical morning. On Monday, we. released a video on our main channel. It's a rap battle called I'm a expert. Now, that was just a fictional battle. That was just to see who was a better. expert in a fictional world. Today we're. going to bring it to the real world and. see who's the more of a text bird.

That's right. Uh feel free to play along. at home or uh conduct your own text off. uh if we so inspire you. A little bit of. background first. I love background just. to establish a baseline background. Uh. according to the Guinness Book of World. Records, the fastest completion of a. prescribed 160 character text message is. 34. 34.65 65 seconds and was achieved by an. amazing Norwegian in an amazing. Norwegian SMS championship held in Oslo.

City in Oslo 13th of November 2010. Oh, that's a good day. The prescribed text. was the razor tothed piranhas of the. Janera Sarasalis and Pyro Centras are. the most ferocious freshwater fish in. the world. In reality, they seldom. attack a human. Everybody knows that. Yeah. Yeah. You've texted that. text. that all the time. Uh hopefully that's. my go-to text. We will not be texting uh. things that crazy, but here's how the.

text off is going to work. We're going. to have four rounds of increasing. difficulty. We're going to be given. something to text from Jason. He's going. to read it out to us. Then he's going to. count down and we're going to go. Whoever finishes first gets five points. for that round. However, both parties. will award a point to the other guy for. every word that they get wrong. Okay? Okay. So, if I get 10 words wrong in my. text, link gives an additional 10 points. to whoever. Basically, you're penalized, you're rewarded for speed, you're. penalized for errors on a wordbyword. basis. Very complex scoring system.

There is a prize. But hey, let's let's. get right to it. Round one. This is uh. two thumb texting while being able to. look at our text. Okay. Your first. phrase is. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. How I. wonder what you are. Up above the world. so high, like a diamond in the sky. Text. in three, two, one, begin.

Oh gosh, I'm selecting and pasting. Oh gosh, I'm. done. Scent. and I'm feeling good about this one.

You're You're Come on, man. What are you doing? You're writing a. note to self. I can see you're typing. something. I forgot what it is. I'm really I'm. psyching myself out there. Just hit. send. Just give it your best. Just get. That's it. Just send it to see if I can. decipher it. All right. Read mine because I got five. points right off the bat. See if I have. any errors. Uh Twinkle, Twinkle, Little.

Star, how I wonder what you are. up. above the world so high like a diamond. in the sky. What? What? That seems the. errors. That seems 100% correct. Now, I. did a cut I cut and pasted twice. I am an idiot. But hopefully I hopefully. I did get it right at least. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what. you are up above the world so high like. a diamond in the sky. Yeah, just a. couple of cuts and pastes and I got it. right. Give me a break. Round two. Up in. the ante one handy. Oh gosh, I'm an.

idiot. I got to I'm right-handed, but I. usually type with my left hand. What. happened to me? I cut and pasted. Uh, text fail is what I am. What does. that mean that I type one-handed with my. left hand, but I'm right-handed? It. means you're left-handed. Let's go. And. you don't know it. No, I'm right-handed. Round two's phrase is, "Jack and Jill. went up the hill to fetch a pale of. water. Jack fell down and broke his. crown, and Jill came tumbling after.".

Text in three, two, one, begin. Oh, this is tough. Oh gosh.

Oh. Oh, send. Oh, I shouldn't have said. I I got those five points. I should have. corrected. I got the five points. You. should have done the cut and paste. method. Okay. Cut and paste. You already. have it on your phone. All right. Let me. read yours. Jack and Joe went up the hill to fetch a. pill of water. Jack fell down and broke. his crown. Kill came tingling after. That's right. Old Kill came tingling. That's what it is, right? Broke his.

crown and Jill came tumbling after. So, all right. Okay. And here's what Link. sent to me. Jack and Jill went up GIFs. Hill to fetch his pa of after gam fell. down and broke had crane and kill. NLRB. strap. Gosh, it's like a caption fail. Okay, so. I'm down by nine points, but that's.

that's easily that's easily recoverable. And a quick uh note on this. I know. we're not doing this the official way. Yes, we have auto correct on A because. we need it and B because we think it's. funnier. Okay, I know this isn't what. they do at the actual competition, but. it's better. Round three. Two thumbs, eyes closed. We're going blind, people. Okay. So, you can get your get your. keyboard up and get your, you know, your. home row kind of centered there. Okay. Your phrase is, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a.

wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's. men couldn't put Humpty together again.". Text in three, two, one, begin. Oh gosh.

Oh, I'm off my keyboard. It was making no noise. Done. Oh gosh, I just caught a glimpse of a. word that I put in there. Okay, I get five points. Rhett, you read. what I typed. I'm almost afraid there's. a lot of returns in it. There's a lot of.

returns. Yeah, I was I was formatting this thing. like a poem. Uh, the first word is. J K M L M T J N DL T. Sat on a. bath. Dark Mad AR. the MGO nurses and L the Mi HD m I s. clicks ting my legal Kim glands glance.

glands no comment f again. wow by the end it was it got kind of. that was a little racy wow how did how. do you do this you've been practicing I. have been practicing Man, I just got. skilled thumbs. Okay, let me read yours. Uh, hungry sundry sat in walk hungry. sinker. Jay's a fearful all the kind's. horses and all the kind's men couldn't.

our hungry Bach Tiger. He aging. Yeah, Boach Tiger has been aging. Okay, so. after round three, heading into round. four, final round, Link, you're down by. eight, which seems pretty miraculous, but I'll take it. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you got him you got. him closer to right, but still wrong. So, mine you was decipherable. All. right. In this final round, we are going. blind and one eye. No, one eye. I meant.

one thumb. Blind with only one eye, which is not bl you know what I'm trying. to say. I'm going to close my eyes and. I'm going to type with one thumb. I. think I'm going to stick with my left. one even though I'm seriously. questioning that. Your final phrase is. That's right. I'm a geek. I've got. brains and a personality. I wear my. glasses sincerely and my t-shirts. ironically. Text in three, two, one, begin.

Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Gosh, I sent Oh, I think I just sent by.

accident. No, you didn't. Oh, okay. Now I'm gonna send. I I received. your text. So, you get five points. I I. get to read yours first. Go for it. Okay, here we go. That's tit. in a geek gro. got bronze and a full boo.

You. wear my hostages. Yeah. Sundry. Sunundry. again. Rotund. K Thai Gurus. [Music]. Good. I did good. Wow. I think I think uh we might have to. beep out some of what I read because of. the pronunciation. Well, just just read mine. That's rugby.

and a g. by d cut bark. Uh uh d uh ketu jasbury. You wear my gases. Act serene and nifoska. Heavy cake. I have more words than you do. What in. the world? I don't think even without us. knowing it'll be on the screen without. us knowing the final. It looks like I. lose, but I gave it a nice college try.

Congratulations. I'm an expert. How do I. win? Between the two of us, you're the. expert. doesn't mean much. What do I. win? Oh, yeah. Oh, there it is. What? What is this? Just off camera. Look at. this. It's a What? What are we calling. this? You can call it the cell phone. accordion or the ultimate texting cell. phone. One for each hand and maybe your. nose. You win three cell phones attached. by a hinge. Cool. Congratulations. Thanks for liking and commenting on this. episode. Go to netflix.com/retinlink.

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