Though Marcel set the record on April 25 in New York City, he was officially crowned the texting king today by Guinness.
Fernandes came to New York on the dime of touchscreen-keyboard startup Fleksy, which the teen has used since 2012.
The standard 25-word phrase Guinness uses for the text record-setting is: "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."
Fernandes typed out the strange sentences with perfect spelling and capitalization asd required in 18.19 seconds.
As a result, he edged out the previous record of 18.44 set by a 15-year-old using a Microsoft phone at the company's office in January.
The teen told TODAY has been "fascinated by Guinness World Records" since childhood, often searching online for strange and interesting records.
An excited Fernandes, who is studying physics at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in southern Brazil, said he isn't "addicted" to texting, and he doesn't spend all day on his phone.
He told reporters that he's been an avid phone user since 2009, when he smashed his laptop with a hammer out of frustration because it was so slow.
An act that he didn't know would set him on the path to a world record.
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