Career
Woodmore was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world"s fastest talker, a title which he held for five years, taking the helm from the previous record holder, John Moschitta, Junior. According to Woodmore, he first discovered his talent at 7, when tasked with reciting long texts as punishment for being too talkative in school. Fastest talker Steve Woodmore can rapidly articulate at a rate of 637 words per minute.
That is four times faster than the average human.
Woodmore first realised his skills at rapid speech when he was seven years old. At school, he was asked by his form teacher to recite an 8-minute speech, as a punishment for his talkativeness.
lieutenant took him only two minutes. His ability to articulate at such a fast rate is apparently due to his recruiting more portions of his brain to the task than the average person, as shown in an fMRI. Woodmore has attempted reading out aloud the United Kingdom tax code.
However, after thirty hours, he was less than a quarter of the way through.
Eventually he took five days to finish the task. Electronics salesman Fast talking aside, Woodmore also acts as an electronics salesman for Currys, an electrical retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Comedian Woodmore also works as a comedian.
The finals were held on 10 September 2011.
