According to [this book (1993)](http://books.google.com/books?id=pzkZPIXm89UC&lpg=PA168&ots=U11ipZKuY5&dq=guinness%20book%20of%20world%20records%20morse%20code&pg=PA168#v=onepage&q=guinness%20book%20of%20world%20records%20morse%20code&f=false):

 * Ted R. McElroy received just over 75 WPM in 1939
 * Harry A. Turner sent 35 WPM using a hand key in 1942 (using Continental code, believed to be equivalent to about 50 WPM in American Morse)

[Guinness](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1/fastest-speed-for-a-morse-code-transmission) seems to think that further improvements have been made:

>  The Guinness World Records' record for the Fastest speed for a morse code transmission was set by Andrei Bindasov (Belarus), who successfully transmitted 216 Morse code marks of mixed text in one minute. 

However, the Guinness site [also lists](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-4000/fastest-morse-code-sent-and-received/) a completely different set of individuals for "morse code sent and received":

> Les Edwards using morse code sent the prescribed 160 character message to Ray Carter. Ray received the message by a morse code receiver and then typed it onto a piece of paper using an old fashioned typewriter in 1 minute and 8 seconds on the set of Guinness World Records at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 27 August 2005.