A New Zealand teenager has broken the world blindfolded texting record by sending a 160-character message in just 45 seconds.
Elliot Nicholls, 17, broke the previous record of 83 seconds twice, by sending the message in 51 seconds on his second attempt and then 45 seconds on his fourth attempt.
"I've been practising about 20 minutes every day for the past week, I knew I could do it, I just had to get the phrase into my brain," he said.
The teenager has worn out the keypads on four mobile phones already. He says he sends around 50 text messages a day.
His father says he gives Elliot a copy of the Guinness Book of Records each Christmas, so he wasn't surprised his son was "attempting something quirky".
The text he had to send was "the razor toothed piranhas of the genera serrasal musand pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world, in reality they rarely attack a human".
Elliot's own text message had to match it exactly, including spaces, punctuation and spelling with no mistakes.
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