A teenager, Marcel
Fernandes has broken the Guinness
World Record for the fastest texting in the world by 0.25 seconds, He set
the new record by typing a ridiculously complicated paragraph without using
auto-correct or predictive text.
Brazilian physics student, Marcel Fernandes, 16, claimed his prize by typing out the text on a
phone app called Flesky, which hails
itself as 'the fastest keyboard in the
world' because of its larger keys and sensitive touch.
To claim his prize, he had to type: 'The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasaimus and Pygocentrus
are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom
attack a human.'
Fernandes was invited to set the record when he won an
online competition set up by the app's makers, a software company called Syntellia.
They flew him out to New York to try and break the previous
record of 18.44 seconds set by Microsoft's Gaurav
Sharma in January. Although he claimed the title back on 25th April,
Guinness have only just confirmed it.
He acquired his skill back in 2009 when he lost patience
with a computer monitor and smashed it to pieces. Fernandes told CNN: "So one day I got so stressed out about
it that I literally took a hammer and broke my desktop monitor. "With no
money to buy a new one, I resorted to using exclusively my iPhone 3GS, which I
had at the time, to do everything I needed to do."I basically lived, from
that day on, using my smartphone."
The first world record was set in March 2010 by Franklin Page, who completed the text
in 35.54 seconds.
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