British teenager named 'Microsoft Excel world champion'

[scooterscot]

You lot are overpaid - Thought Mr opinionated would have won this blindfolded

Rebecca Rickwood, 15, from Cambridgeshire, clinched the win ahead of 228,000 international rivals.

The 79 finalists in the “2011 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office” battled it out this week in San Diego, California. Rebecca took first prize in the Excel 2007 category.

“It’s amazing. I didn’t think I’d win it,” she said.

“First we had to take a qualifying exam which I took back in about October. Then at the end of June we got the phone call saying I’d got the best score in the UK so I was coming to San Diego for the world championships.”

[Mich the Tester]

Congratulations Rebecca.

Phone us when you've got yourself a life.

[shaunbhoy]

British teenager named 'Microsoft Excel world champion'

Doesn't seem all that many years ago that our own sasguru snatched the same coveted prize. And now look at him!
He has his own shed and everything!!

[vetran]

“There’s a lot of Asians here and usually they’re the ones who get all the top prizes, so I didn’t think that I would” said Rebecca.
The teenager, who would like to do "something to do with computing" when she leaves school, takes home home a $5,000 prize.

says a lot

[MarillionFan]

Congratulations Rebecca.

Phone us when you've got yourself a life.

Did you really just write that.

I can see a whole Tefal factory tittering now.

[Mich the Tester]

Did you really just write that.

I can see a whole Tefal factory tittering now.

Teenagers should have much better things to do than piss around with excel sheets. Sex, booze and rock and roll, for a start. Oops, sorry, IT nerds around here.

[Spacecadet]

Teenagers should have much better things to do than piss around with excel sheets. Sex, booze and rock and roll, for a start. Oops, sorry, IT nerds around here.

Makes the point really, your joke was rather ironic and given than her Mother is the microsoft trainer at the school she might have had a little bit of an advantage

Anyway, she also plays the flute

[Mich the Tester]

Anyway, she also plays the flute

She likes blowing then? Her future boyfriends will be pleased about that.

[2BIT]

worked in a posh school for a while and once saw a boy in the junior school reading an MSSQL manual... didnt know whether to be impressed or depressed....

[MarillionFan]

Makes the point really, your joke was rather ironic and given than her Mother is the microsoft trainer at the school she might have had a little bit of an advantage

Anyway, she also plays the flute

This one time at band camp...