Are you an obsessive texter? Is texting your #1 form of communication? You think you’ve got the texting skills to pay the bills?

If the answer is yes, then you’re in luck. But now, you’ve gotta prove it. Time to get serious here.

Geeksugar.com reports the National Texting Championship and its last round, the East Coast Finals, on Saturday, April 21st in New York City. If you have an LG phone and text like a madwoman, get in on this: the winner of the East Coast finals wins $15,000, and the winner of the entire Championship wins a total of $25,000! Just for texting! What is this world coming to?!?

During the competition, competitors will be divided into pools and given phrases to text. The winner of each pool (the first person with no errors in the text) will advance on against other pool winners, as the texting gets more difficult. That means, you gotta be ready for symbols, numbers, and letters being thrown at you from every direction. And, the biggest challenge of all - NO abbreviations are allowed.

So, register NOW, start practicing by obnoxiously sending your friends random, meaningless texts and run up those phone bills if you have to - it may actually pay off.

Gd Lck u ppl! TTYL