16-year-old from Brazil breaks Windows Phone's record for fastest typing

A 16-year-old boy from Brazil has set the Guinness World Record for fastest typing on a smartphone touch screen, typing a 25-word paragraph in just 18.19 seconds, according to a report on CNN.    Marcel Fernandes Filho set the record on 25 April in New York City, however he was officially crowned the texting king by Guinness on 15 May. Fernandes typed a 25-word pre-selected paragraph into his smartphone touchscreen in 18.19 seconds, just enough to break the record of 18.44 seconds set in January, CNN reported.   “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,” the paragraph read. The entire phrase had to be spelled and punctuated correctly.   Previously the record was held by Gaurav Sharma, a 15-year-old from Seattle. Sharma had texted the same paragraph in 18.44 seconds using Microsoft’s newest Windows Phone 8.1 software, with the Word Flow keyboard, according to this post on Mashable.   Fernandes, a physics student, maintains that despite the Guinness record, he is not a texting junkie, the report said. “Since I was a child I always loved phones, and still love smartphones today …,” he said. “But I don’t consider myself addicted to using smartphones, as I don’t spend all day using them.”   According to the CNN report, “the teen said his skill started developing in 2009, after he grew frustrated with a wonky monitor on his desktop computer.”   “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 that I needed to do. I basically lived, from that day on, using my smartphone,” he told the news channel.