"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."
That's the phrase you'd have to type on a smartphone's touch screen in less than 18.9 seconds to beat the current world record for fastest texter.
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The title was just given to 15-year-old Marcel Fernandes Filho from Brazil. He came to New York on April 25th and edged out the previous record holder by just .36 seconds.
$4 that he has been "fascinated by Guinness World Records" since childhood.
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He doesn't consider himself a texting addict, but interestingly, it was touchscreen-keyboard startup $4, which touts itself as the fastest touchscreen keyboard in the world.
Filho used Fleksy on a Microsoft Phone to type the sentence and eventually claim the record as his own.
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