CONQUERED THE ALPHABET

A pangram (Greek: παν γράμμα, pan gramma, "every letter") or holoalphabetic sentence for a given alphabet is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

This type of sentence is called a pangram. The most widely known pangram is the one that's traditionally been used to test typewriters or keyboards: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick-brown-fox pangram, which has been used since at least the late 19th century, was utilized by Western Union to test Telex / TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability, and is now used by a number of computer programs (most notably the font viewer built into Microsoft Windows) to display computer fonts. The German Victor-jagt pangram, used since before 1800, contains all the letters, including the 3 umlaut letters: ä, ö, ü.

Short pangrams in English are more difficult to come up with and tend to use uncommon words, because the English language uses some letters (especially vowels) much more frequently than others. Longer pangrams may afford more opportunity for humor, cleverness, or thoughtfulness. In a sense, the pangram is the opposite of the lipogram, in which the aim is to omit one or more letters. 

Some examples of pangram:

"Crazy Fredericka bought many very equisite opal jewels."

"Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes."

"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!"

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A perfect pangram or ultimate pangram contains every letter of the alphabet only once and can be considered an anagram of the alphabet; it is the shortest possible pangram.

The ultimate pangram which is only 26 letters long, containing all 26 letters. This has been done, but only by using words that are so obscure that nobody has ever heard of them:

"Cwm fjordbank glyphs vext quiz."

(cwm, a loan word from Welsh, means a steep-sided valley, particularly in Wales). 

which means "inscriptions in hollow on side of inlet puzzled professor".

Some examples of perfect pangram/ultimate pangram:

"Cwm fjord veg balks nth pyx quiz"

"Jink cwm, zag veldt, fob qursh pyx"

"unky qoph-flags vext crwd zimb"

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