A 16-year-old boy from Brazil holding the Guinness World Record for fastest typing on a Smartphone touch screen, typing a 25-word paragraph in just 18.19 seconds.
The 25-word message Filho had to type was: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
Marcel Fernandes Filho had use perfect, capitalization and punctuation, he set the record on 25 April in New York City, however he was officially crowned the texting king by Guinness on 15 May. Filho edged out the previous record-holder, another teen who texted that message in18.44 seconds.
“So one day I got so stressed out about it that I literally took a hammer and broke my desktop monitor,” he said in an e-mail. “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 that I needed to do.”I basically lived, from that day on, using my smartphone.”
“The teen said his skill started developing in 2009, after he grew frustrated with a wonky monitor on his desktop computer.”
The founder and COO of Fleksy, Ioannis Verdelis said that “It was in our business plan from day one to get our technology to beat the record”.
To try to beat the record, the company held a contest that asked users to test their texting capabilities against the old record. They received hundreds of entries and found Fernandes through the contest.
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