Accuracy Matters

Awesome… in love with it already…
And the ‘slow death mode’… even more awesome!! 😀

Typeracer,
I have one more suggestion,
Can’t you give one more chance (or let’s just say allowed number of mistakes.. 3~5 in a single race) so that it works better.. because in so many races, I have been kicked just due to a period or question mark with inverted quotation marks.. I hope you consider this too… 😦
Regards

Eric..

Mm, perfect. This is keeping the game ‘pleasantly frustrating’. 😉

NICE JOB

Impressive

Wrona is fast! http://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/?p=873

Does he do dvorak?

Das Keyboard should still sponsor here, I’m almost tempted to buy one of those.

Thanks, Typeracer: This was a great idea. The new game is very difficult but very fun and rewarding as well. I love the emphasis on accuracy, since as you said, that’s just as important as speed.

Typeracer vet, I have only ever used QWERTY.

The Das Keyboard is (slightly) faster, but the difference is mostly negligible. I gained 5-10 wpm maybe. I gained more than that from switching from Firefox to Google Chrome… I’m not sure it’s worth what they’re charging considering it’s not really THAT much faster. I was still one of the fastest typists here on a keyboard I bought from Staples for $10 or $15…

I really love it! I have been bogged and stuck at about 60 wpm for a good few months now. Can’t get it improved to like 65 or 70, no matter how I try.
This Instant Death Mode could be a great booster for me.
Loving it, even though I managed to complete only 3 out of about 20 races I have taken today. But I have reinforced a lesson onto me, which I have learned during the course of the last few months: have to improve on accuracy first if I want to climb the speed ladder!
Great great awesome job ! Sudos to all you guys at Typeracer! Thanks a million – for typeracer and even more so as you have just dropped the Instant Death bomb!

Hi everyone!
My WPM on the new version of typeracer is very poor. Does the typeracer change something when calculate WPM? Anyone feel the same? Please answer me!
Thanks.

its fun.. completing a race is itself a challenge..

Please Typeracer if people leave before a race commences allow the remaining competitor to be credited with a win – I seem to have to abandon about 50% of races because of unenthusiastic racers.

well, i just got that read yesterday. i haven’t been on in a week. hey ya’ll!!!

I think there should be statistics about how many races have failed and percentage of successful races! Also the disqualified pop up is annoying, should just go to another screen that says you failed and only need to click once to start a new race instead of closing the popup and then starting a new race.

Good morning all!
Megan Perry – Thanks, I use the same strategy.
Pndragon – I agree entirely it’s very exasperating.
Typeracer – I’d like to know the accuracy of the opposition, how about adding accuracy stats. as well as the speed stats. that we normally see against racers?

Yes,
I agree to pndragon’s statement.
Also there should be a stastics log for all the races done so far…

Regards

Eric..

Same with me Noah, when I was typing with 84 WPM in Instand Death Mode,
I landed at 77 WPm, I was pretty disappointed..
It was a little bit shocking for me..
But I came to know that it certainly happens in every race and the “Words per minute” have been counted in the same way..

Alex E. Thanks for your prompt response, you said, “James, I don’t think that’s a bug. Your final wpm is reported as it is recorded on the server, which might be slighly off from what it looks like in your browser. This happens for ALL the players in every race, for the sake of a fair comparison.” (capitals inserted)
Alex if this adjustment also applies to the BOTS there would be no problem – as the finish order displayed in the browser would be preserved. – In my case the race was against 2 BOTS (no other humans), my car reached the end BEFORE the BOTS, while my final WPM was adjusted their’s remained the same as seen in my browser (Opera)!!! – The race order was NOT preserved.
If this is not a BUG, how can it be a FAIR comparison?

morgali keep training and you will be better..hey who is this guy lolorcopter?i see that he has a funny name and he types very well:P

The photo at the top of this blog post is hilarious. It is almost as good as the old picture of a “walking race”.

Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber “Eenie Meenie

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i was the one who overreacted!

Typeracer(alex) can you tell me if i can change my account information if I want?Is it possible..i was curious if I can change my last name..

http://groups.google.com/group/typeracer/browse_thread/thread/611e1756efa9409f >>>> Report cheaters here.

Slobodan is a bad leaver, yes. But I think he is not a cheater. His speed is maybe because the site bugs a lot today.
It’s really annoying, sometimes we can begin at 1200 wpm or 800-700…

how can i change my profile information?is it possible?can anyone tell me?

It’s great. However, generally, I’m not sure that accuracy is really what improves typing speed. I’d say just learning to type the right way and then practice and practice. That would really improve typing speed all the more as time goes on.

JackS
Fun Typing Games

Hi everyone out there!!! This idea has been
great and has been making typeracer more
popular. However typeracer can always use a
little improvement dont you think everyone?!?
I have started a discussion at forums about
more ideas on how to make typeracer better.
If you have any ideas do tell! I’m all ears
everyone! I WANT TYPERACER TO BE THE BEST IT
CAN EVER BE AND I KNOW MANY OF YOU DO TO SO
GIVE ME YOUR IDEAS AT FORUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys. No I’m not a cheater, what you probably find unreal because I leave a lot of races. But actually I’m not good in typing on an english language, my real average speed is 80wpm. But only on “I know a bloke” I am able to type over 150wpm. I have a video of my typing on that text, and this is the link of it…

i have only been a part of typeracer for one year, but i feel as if i have been a part forever!!!

Alex E. please fix cheating test!!! I just scored 116wpm and get no text in the box. what’s going on??

Invite me to type I will make total domination
im a nerd :3

This a good idea i think i’ll do this

Youre all gay youre all gay (youre all gay)

Delete that account.

Serbia has no better typist than me! 🙂
Sorry, but that’s the truth… If there is one, my e-mail is mozaikbaloni@gmail.com
he is free to e-mail me. 🙂

Guys,
I got my best speed today… 131 WPM

Eric

This game rocks lol 🙂 it really helps like even through punctuation and spelling mistakes!!lol :):(:):(:):(

wish there wer cheats
lol

have fun playing

Hello Alex I think it encourages the world to play a lot more if we would see on the site leaders in the race to play thank you in advance.

1) kllingtype=46839
2) dufour=45790
3) nattukittu=32391
4) chimchimchim=29970
5) chuchoespanto=23865
6) nozden=17400
7) jaunty_jalopy=16932
8) rapid=16572
9) ning*=15616
10) roi1=15610
11) therealmcoy=14746
12) fightin_phils=14589
13) aram90=14077
14) grrarg=13700
15) mrlago=12727
16) jezebe11e=12329
17) bob_bongloaded=12184
18) valikor=12138
19) brandong=11364
20) bigd4316=11341
21) lebao=10798
22) azee=10517
23) moobin=10270
24) kymdawn=10200
25) moobin2=10083

DUFOUR

Congrats S S (chimchimchim),
you have successfully completed 30,000 Races…

Eric

Hey people out there who think they’re fastest of the fast at typing. Your not in the running for fastest typist in the world until you can type an average of at least 170wpm! And Zoran something tells me im going to be faster than you in my teenage years. True you might improve but i found i improve much much quicker than most others. I shall begin to improve slower as i get faster but i still think i can beat you somewhere in my teenage years Zoran. 10 right now in a few more years i think i’ll have what it takes to TAKE YOU DOWN. May typeracer be alive for out children, or grandchildren, and our grandchildren’s children. MAY TYPERACER LIVE FOR MANY GENERATIONS TO COME!!!!!!

Im 14 and i can type 132wpm
fastest 160wpm
But I just get so many typing mistakes, high wpm is just because my hand is fast. The Instant Death Mode makes me can only play 1 out of 100 races.
account:屈機獸(leonleung96)

hello everybody. i am here now!!!

Alex Sir,
Are you sleeping?
Open your eyes and see what’s going on?
Delete David Bandel (sharpnova)’s account…

Eric

Good job RambooUAE (killingtype),
You have created a new milestone worth 47000 Races..
This is incredible…
Congratulations!!!

Eric

zoran,i know that when you think that you are the best from your country is something important,but if you think that you are faster than 8 milion serbs it’s an exageration of your skill because it’s away of thinking that is exagerated cause not all 8 milions are typing..but anyway i m not saying that you are not good i was just saying that maybe it is the time to give the torch to a younger serbian to be your succesor:P

I do wonder who the fasetest typist in America is. Sean Wrona is one of the fastest but not the best.

If he wasn’t cheating, this is my vote for the fastest American that I’ve seen…

I have been on that site and am usually between 160-180 wpm, but I believe my record there is 184 wpm which was something like sixteenth there, but bear in mind that people can race there as many times as they like and this guy says he’s regularly around 185 wpm. I think that’s exaggerating because I’ve seen the score distribution and very few people have ever been at 185. But if the guy’s legit, he is my vote.

I’ll add that I do think Jelani is a faster sprint typer than I am, although I believe I am a faster endurance typer than he is.

Oh I’ve seen that video before! I used to go on that site but its been a while and i forgot the name of the site. I wasnt sure if he was from America but if he is then he is probably fastest.

Number of races per day for the top 19 (Races Completed)

5) chuchoespanto : 93,97
6) nozden : 75,97
4) chimchimchim : 47,49
16) bob_bongloaded : 38,41
1) killingtype : 36,27
3) nattukittu : 31,21
11) fightin_phils : 28,50
13) grrarg : 22,27
12) aram90 : 20,88
10) therealmcoy : 18,52
18) bigd4316 : 17,20
8) rapid : 13,12
2) dufour : 12,77
7) jaunty_jalopy : 8,12
15) jezebe11e : 7,57
14) mrlago : 5,61
19) brandong : 5,44
9) roi1 : 3,83
17) valikor : 3,82

I notice a great fall for races completed. Yet, nobody at the present time (last 1000 races) exceed 100 races per day.

The time when dufour, me or later killingtype did 200 races per day was bygone.

A lot of racers in this top were gone, what a pity ! roi1, valikor, brandong and jezebe11e, where are you ? …
Buck up guys ! 😀

(Hope to reach 20 000 races soon ^^)

if anybody’s on go to my track http://play.typeracer.com/?rt=trandy569

An interesting statistic information in our player would be our number of races completed in our 1000 final would be good I think

Last 1000 races: 17.68 races by day.

so you type with 8 fingers or with how many?well buy yourself a better keyboard

@Leon Young
Ya, You can say I type with 8 fingers.
And I have two keyboards at home, one is the logitech one which I love it very much(should be logitech nano)
And the other one is the HP one (can’t stand cause it’s too hard)
and well, all keyboards at home are not bought by me, they are all brought by my parents, and I actually don’t have the ability to buy a good keyboard myself…

Dang! She is faster than me by nearly 50wpm! Shit! Her average is better than my best. Awwwwww! To think i was one of the fastest typists of my age currently. But after seeing her speed i think there are alot of 5th graders that are faster than me. This bites! Well I’m gonna have to practice more.

previous messag was from me. Either way she is pretty fast if she’s a 5th grader or a middle schooler.

I can’t log on my account in typeracer(leonleung96)
Please check what’s going wrong, thanks!

Friends check out this link,
here is the image of David Bandel (sharpnova)’s fastest race and slowest race record…
Can anyone hike this fast within 247 races?
Check out this link:
http://tinypic.com/r/29qodnr/5

fren =>> Karen (motsak)

Avg. speed (last 10 races) : 128 WPM
Avg. speed (all time) : 133,202
Best Race : 172 WPM
Races completed : 1265
Races won : 1025

It’s him. The others are very far.

Who is the fastest typist in HK?
I think it should be Nick Yeow.
And I wondered my rank among HK typers.

@Nozden

I’ve always seen you, and I have been racing with you for a long time.
But the fact is, I lost most of the match……
I don’t know you are just sprinter or just type with stability. But the thing is, I am a 120% sprinter, if I can’t sprint (that means there is a typo when i sprint), then I can’t concentrate on the words left and it will result in extremely low wpm, (you should know that).
So many typos…training hard. You know, I always get higher than 145wpm when i get 100% , but it’s only 1 out of 50 races……
And If I remember correctly, my average is higher than you…

so karen is the first..but i wonder who is the second french typer around here?:P Nozden you are a very good typer too

I like the instant death mode, but could you please remove the dialog box that pops up after a loss. Either that or give the OK button on the box focus so I can just hit enter to clear the box, instead of using my mouse.

Dear Developer,

First I have to apologize for not reading all the comments. Second, I think that it would be even more dramatic not to kick the player from the race in this mode but just to make him stop typing, so he may be able to see the final top, to see how that dude who was way slower than him passed him.
with gratitude, Vrexo

Instant death mode really nice,
it helps a lot…

Hello Typeracer:
I completed 10 races in Instant Death Mode but I don’t find my name on the Fastest Typist Section. 😦
Please let me know, when can I expect my name to be there?

Wow(gulp)