James, David, Paul and Sarah revealed as UK’s clumsiest names
Ever dropped and smashed your mobile phone? If you’re called James, Sarah, David or Paul it seems there’s a good chance your shattered phone screen is stuck together with tape.
High-street phone repaireriSmashhas rather cruelly revealed the names of what it terms the UK’s clumsiest people according to lists of people who come into its shops with a sad face and a smashed phone screen.
Men’s names make up the top-three clumsy fools, with James, David and Paul most likely to drop and smash their precious smartphone. Indeed the butter-fingered top 10 includes nine men’s names, and the top 20 has 18 cack-handed males.
Sarah is the clumsiest female name (at #4), with Emma (#13) and Laura (#21) coming second and third in the women’s phone-fumbling Olympics.
iPhones take the top nine places for the most frequently repaired phones, followed by the Samsung.
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In 2017 iSmash announced Leeds as the most ham-fisted town, followed by Nottingham, Bristol and Newcastle. Swansea and London had the least bungling populations
Britain’s clumsiest names list for 2018 revealed
James
David
Paul
Sarah
Mark
Michael
John
Chris
Andrew
Alex
Richard
Tom
Emma
Daniel
Simon
Matthew
Ben
Peter
Sam
Adam
Laura
Robert
Charlotte
Hannah
Rebecca
Nick
Claire
Jack
Sophie
Lucy
Stephen
Anna
Thomas
Jonathan
George
Amy
Katie
Matt
Joe
Martin
The name data was determined by the number of phone repairs carried out by iSmash from March to May 2018.
Author: Simon Jary, Contributor
Simon was Editor of Macworld from the dark days of 1995 to the triumphant return of Steve Jobs and the launch of the iPhone. His desk is a test bench for tech accessories, from USB-C and Thunderbolt docks to chargers, batteries, Powerline adaptors and Fitbits.
