Fastest Time to Input a Chinese Sentence on a Tablet Using Wubi

China

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Beihu-Chenzhou-Hunan, SAR, China / November 1, 2026

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, China, typed 举头望明月,低头思故乡。, a line from Li Bai's poem Quiet Night Thoughts, on a tablet's on-screen keyboard with the Wubi input method in 24.27 seconds. Wubi spells each Chinese character from the shapes of its parts, and Yanhao keyed the full three-letter code for every character, from IWF for 举 to XTE for 乡, skipping shortcuts and fixing one mistyped code on the way. RecordSetter read every code in the keyboard's candidate bar and checked the finished line against a smartwatch stopwatch that runs from 00:00.00 before the first key to 00:24.27, in one continuous clip. Ten characters, three letters each, no pinyin.

Tags: typing, technology, keyboard, language, fastest, poetry, Chinese, tablet

Rules

- Type the sentence 举头望明月,低头思故乡。 exactly as written, including the comma and the full stop
- Use a tablet and its own on-screen keyboard with a standard Wubi input method (such as Wubi 86, Wubi 98 or Wubi New Century); no external keyboard, and no pinyin or mixed pinyin input
- Enter each character on its own by typing its Wubi code of at least three letters (in Wubi 86: IWF UDI YNE JEG EEE, WQA UDI LNU DTY XTE) and choosing that character; no one- or two-letter short codes, word or phrase codes, predicted or associated words, custom phrases, pasting or text replacement
- The finished text must match the sentence exactly, characters and punctuation; errors must be deleted and corrected before the timer stops, and the time spent fixing them counts
- Timing starts on a stopwatch reading to hundredths of a second, started from zero on camera before the first key is pressed, and stops once the complete, correct sentence shows on screen
- Must be one continuous, unedited video showing the tablet screen, the keyboard and the stopwatch throughout
- Must follow form of current world record holder
- Must provide video evidence
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