More quotes, more plays, and more speed
September has been rather quiet on this blog, but things have been heating up on TypeRacer with almost exactly 1 million games played this month! We’re ending September with some major improvements to the site. While you won’t actually notice many of these changes, they are acting behind the scenes to make TypeRacer work faster and more reliably than ever.
One thing you will notice is that we’ve added more quotes – 40% more! You’ll see new quotes from movies like The Godfather
Now you also get to see your accuracy at the end of the race. Accuracy has a significant impact on your overall typing speed and will be highlighted red if it’s below 98%. See if you can get it in the green! Accuracy is calculated as the ratio of mistyped characters over the total number of characters in the text.
We’ve also compiled a large selection of texts about typing. We read several “learn how to type” books from different decades and looked at some historical perspectives on the origins and longevity of the Qwerty keyboard. The Greatest Stories Never Told
We hope you enjoy the new texts!
Thanks Typeracer staff! Now all we need is for the abandoned races to show.
Craig
October 1, 2008
Type racer has come far, maybe they should make a lobby style area so you can chat to other people. That would be great! sort of like yahoo games if you are familiar with them.
chazam
October 1, 2008
Ooh, I like the new accuracy feature. I make a lot of mistakes (usually teh – I spend ages backspacing), so its nifty to see exactly what percent.
Shae
October 1, 2008
Still no news on the facebook app? 😦
Kapli
October 1, 2008
Should make you can earn money and buy new cars and stuff. Like on bebo. 🙂
Then HEAPS more people would play 🙂
PHTAMAN
October 1, 2008
I have been playing TypeRacer for almost 4 months now. I have tried to improve my typing a million times, but always got bored. But, now I am hooked on to this beautiful game. My typing speed has gone up from 50 wpm to a consistent 70wpm. Thanks for this wonderful game! And keep increasing the database of quotes.
Murali
October 2, 2008
You definitely need to find a mechanism that cuts down on abandoned races. Half of the high score posters just quit in the middle every time.
Ryan
October 2, 2008
Thanks for the updates. Having more quotes to type to keeps it fun =)
Anonymous
October 2, 2008
how do you link MySpace & typeracer?
kyleva
October 3, 2008
Accuracy BUG!
(after typing several texts meticulously at 100% accuracy, on ALL the skill levels, the site reports that my accuracy is 96.5-98.5%); XP+Opera
Anonymous
October 3, 2008
Kapli – the Facebook app will finally become available shortly. It’s been taking a while because we had to come up with a way to link your typeracer.com account with your facebook account. Stay tuned!
typeracer
October 3, 2008
chazam – Yes, chat will be great! We’ll start work on it as soon as the Facebook app is ready.
typeracer
October 3, 2008
Clarification: the accuracy reported at the end of the race is for the last race only, and it’s a measure of how many corrections you’ve had to make. Since TypeRacer makes you fix all your typos, the fact that you typed all the words doesn’t mean that you have 100% accuracy. It’s not a bug!
typeracer
October 3, 2008
Ryan – yes abandoned races will be dealt with!
typeracer
October 3, 2008
kyleva – MySpace accounts are separate from TypeRacer.com at the moment, but we’re working on a way to combine them!
typeracer
October 3, 2008
[…] shaded area in the graph below represents the quotes that have been added this week. Chances of Quotes […]
Score histories for all quotes now available « The TypeRacer Blog
October 3, 2008
Do you have any quotes from Get Smart?
Cheese Lady
October 24, 2008
car should pop a mono (go on 2 wheels) if you go over a certain speed.. heh
rapid
November 12, 2008
Ariel!!!
adam
November 19, 2008
adam!
Anonymous
November 19, 2008
Hey. so basically I think you should make typeracer into
TYPE RACER.
it is sooo confusing that those two words are joined to gether, and I usually end up making my own name for it like “poopy racer” because I can remember it more.
I think this site should shut down because its a waste of time for people who want to achieve academic sucess. GAH.
this typing thing sucks. & you need more updated quotes because they are all DUMB and no one has ever heard of them.
GO DIE POOPY RACER!
Pricilla.
November 20, 2008
You should let registered users report whether they’re typing on Qwerty or Dvorak (or other) layouts, so we can see if users of either really do type faster or more accurately!
Arthaey Angosii
November 21, 2008
very nice !!!!!
ramji
December 6, 2008
Why can’t you guys have less boring quotes? All they are about is computers and and typing!!!!
ian mccann (dennycrane)
December 9, 2008
this is so much fun it would be sweet 2 tlk 2 others i even played this on my bday
hateful/sam
December 12, 2008
i typed this whole article while reading it
Lime
January 18, 2009
I cannot know what it is: http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6089/cannotunderstand.gif
SuperThin
March 15, 2009
hm… love it )
bledbanda
April 22, 2009
Is it possible for you guys to make an option
for a game involving typing with you get money f
for typing fast.But not that fast at least more
than 30wpm. Also I wanted to say that this
program has helped me typing in school.
Nakoda
April 24, 2009
Can you get any quotes from High School Musical
3 because I know there are many people who love
this movie. Did you know that I think this game
will improve your typing skills. Come to think
of this, my friend has went from a 28wpm to a
56wmp. So I thank this program for letting our
acedemic skills reach a high and satisfing
grade.
Thanks a lot I really appriciate it.
Nakoda
April 24, 2009
Are there Fight Club quotes, too? That would be great.
Anonymous
August 22, 2009
I hate my life . Alex Cherwinka
Anonymous
September 18, 2009
report the world.
Anonymous
December 5, 2009
there’s this funny quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, i think it would be funny
its when the whale is talking about what itself is, before smashing to the ground on MAgrathea.
you should look it up
skateboymax
May 1, 2011