Brazilian teenage Marcel Fernandes has broken the Guinness World Record for fastest texting by typing out a 25-word paragraph in 18.19 seconds, breaking the previous record by 0.25 seconds.

He did this using a typing app called Fleksy.

This app uses regular old ‘qwerty’ touch typing rather than swiping as some power text apps do.

The unique feature is its predictive text technology. After installation, it optionally personalises by scanning through Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and your text messages so you have to be comfortable with it having access to these data. fleksy.com