UK tyro Rebecca Rickwood has won a universal contest to find the most appropriate user of Microsoft's spreadsheet software, Excel 2007.
Rebecca, who is 15, was a of 228,000 competitors from 57 countries. She beat 78 students in the last round.
Competitors were compulsory to perform timed tests to denote their talent at creation spreadsheets.
Rebecca was presented with her $5000 honor yesterday at a rite in San Diego, California.
"I listened my name read out in initial place and we only couldn't think it. I'm ecstatic, we only can't think we won and right away I'm world champion. It's a day I'll never forget," she said.
Rebecca is a pupil at Sawtry Community College, a dilettante maths and computing subordinate college in Cambridgeshire.
Rebecca's mentor Pam Kitchen, a Microsoft tutor at the school, was overjoyed to listen to of her success: "Her parent phoned me to discuss it me the news. we are unaware who was more excited, him or me!"
Sawtry Community College runs extra-curricular classes for students in Microsoft software. Rebecca primarily entered an online contest for Microsoft Excel 2007.
"She scored 1000 out of 1000," Mrs Kitchen told BBC News. Rebecca was then invited to come in the universal competition.
"She got a hundred percent in the World Championship too."
The annual contest involves informal heats opposite the globe, with winners surpassing to a shortlist of 10 finalists. Rebecca won out in a list dominated by pupils from Asia.
Rebecca honed her skills by study at lunch-time and in the evenings at the school. "The other students are so on cloud nine for her," mentioned Mrs Kitchen.
The mentor believes that her expert has a splendid future.
"She can do anything - and she's such a poetic girl."
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