Strongly disagree.

This is something you will hear from a lot of places, often from people who never were early adopters of neither mail, sms or skype etc.

Yeah well that's not me... I've been on BBSes since 1988 and got my first proper internet shell account in 1991 when, incidentally, I was 13.

The reason I made the comment is because it rubbed me the wrong way to cite 13-year-old girl talk as prototypical gibberish. Are 13-year-old girls generally excitable and potentially annoying? Yes. Do they talk in gibberish as a matter of course? No, that's a thoughtless sexist trope.

And I'll place a blind bet that they text faster than you.

Agree that the girl part should have been left out.

Still think an average hn-er should be able to type faster and more correct on a normal keyboard than the average 13yo, regardless of gender.

You're stacking the deck. Physical keyboards are ancient technology ;)