15-Year-Old Girl Wins Microsoft Excel World Championship Which Apparently Exists

Math prodigy, computer whiz, and cute too!

I’d hit it.

Additionally, how the hell is there a competition for a program? How are points given? What do you even do?

http://www.officecompetition.com   Only students age 13-23 are eligible and they enter when they take the Microsoft Office Specialist certification exam.  Then they advance round by round until they get to the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office.

There is not only an Excel World Championship, they also compete in Word and PowerPoint too!

Holy cow! Her Microsoft Excel coach is actually a Microsoft Excel coach?

What’s next? Her father is her father?!

Her father is a Microsoft coach.

That’s cheating.

I’d complained if I was a contestant.

Her father is a Microsoft coach.

That’s cheating.

I’d complained if I was a contestant.

Freakin awesome!

She’ll make an excellent secretary, someday.

well done  Rebecca Rickwood.
can u give me its id
 

@twitter-35860455:disqus  I’m sure most contestants had coaches. That’s how these competitive things work. And it’s her teacher who coached her. Apparently she goes to a math- and computing-focused school. But this article is written badly.Props to @facebook-682441801:disqus  for being supportive without commenting on her looks, how you’d “hit it” (ew! SHE is 15) or making disparaging remarks about her career prospects. Thanks for treating her like a person. Rebecca, you go girl. Show us all how it’s done.

She looks like the daughter from dexter. weird.

Its rare that i come across a well written article on the internet, great job

15 year old student, Rebecca Rickwood from the UK, has won the most recent Microsoft Excel World Championship. Also, there is a Microsoft Excel World Championship.  (Why do you write “Also, there is a Microsoft Excel World Championship when you just told us she won it?  This just made the article sound like it was a fake story)

What the hell is this: Her Microsoft Excel coach, who is a Microsoft Excel coach?  Learn how to write!

 She is 15 you sick fuck.

Fail. He was making a point.

‘I’d hit it’, lol that’s awesome man, then we wonder why women have so much more time to study than we do.

Now, children. Let’s not go shitting ourselves and insulting the author. Armed with some basic knowledge of reading comprehension, we can logically deduce the point of the article. Allow me to paraphrase in simpler words:

“It’s crazy that this competition exists! I didn’t know that people chose to spend their free time doing things on Excel spreadsheet.” and also, ”She has a Microsoft Excel coach? I was unaware that this was a real profession, since that seems a little ridiculous.” 
The author is using satire in his writing, since an article about a Microsoft Excel championship is kind of a silly concept at best, and otherwise pretty dry to read.  Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that generates blank data boxes that you type codes, data, and equations into. You can use it for graphing, making data tables, pie charts, calculating your taxes, what have you; thus making it a fairly boring concept for a competition.

Ultimately, this article is about congratulating Rebecca Rickwood.Hopefully, she will use the money wisely; perhaps one day investing in her own programming company.