Now there’s a headline that wouldn’t have made sense 20 years ago.
Marcel Fernandes, a 16-year-old Brazilian, has broken the record for the fastest text message in the world.
Fernandes was handed a difficult 25-word paragraph to type out…
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.
…and managed it in just 18.19 seconds.
The teen was using Fleksy, a keyboard app, and beat the previous record – set using the same sentence – by 15-year-old Gaurav Sharma from Seattle in January.
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