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　　A Utah teen with fingers of fury(神速)is once again the speed text-messaging king of the world．Ben Cook, 18, of Provo, Utah, returned to the top of the cell-phone text-messaging competition last Friday at a water park in Denver, finishing a 160-character standardized message in 42.22 seconds．

　　The phrase used for purposes of professional, competition text 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．”

　　The feat(本领)was recorded on video and scored by an official timekeeper, authorizing it for the Guinness World Records purposes, said Sara Spaulding, spokeswoman for event sponsor(赞助商)Jump Mobile．

　　Text messaging, already popular with teenagers, is becoming increasingly popular in the U．S．, jumping from 2.5 billion a month in 2004 to about 7.4 billion a month in 2006, according to a survey by the CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade group．

　　Cook in 2004 set the world record by texting the official phrase in 57.75 seconds, a record that soon fell．Before Cook’s feat Friday, the record was held by a 23-year-old woman from Singapore at 43.24 seconds set on June 27, 2004．