Anniversary Day: Celebrating Four Years of Typing Records!
When typeracer.com, the world’s first real-time multiplayer typing game, went online all the way back in March, 2008 (remember this blog post?), we didn’t yet have a way to save your score. This capability was introduced on August 8, 2008, and today marks exactly 4 years since the very first user accounts were created and the first races were recorded in our database.
I want to wish a happy 4-year anniversary to valikor, bryans, and bob_bongloaded, and everyone else who signed up on the first day! Almost a million users have joined since then and over 38 million races have been recorded in typeracer history.
Your Badge of Merit
To commemorate your dedication to typeracing and to say thanks for 4 years of patronage, I spent a good portion of the summer creating these merit badges for everyone.
The badge is an image URL that you can publish anywhere on the web, put on your resume/CV, or even email to your parents! It will display your latest stats and will be updated automatically each time you finish a race. This badge is your official score card and typing certificate, signed by typeracer.com.
Here is the badge for bryans, for example:
http://data.typeracer.com/misc/badge?user=bryans
For best results, you can publish your badge using an HTML code snippet that links to your profile. You can see your badge and get your code right now by visiting your profile page.
New Avatars For Everyone
We’re also celebrating with 10 new racing avatars and giving everyone, not just premium members, an opportunity to use them for a month. Just go to your profile page and choose any one of the 25 “cool avatars” to add a personalized touch to your typeracing. New avatars for everyone!
10 new racing avatars now available!
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Oh that’s great! I started doing this, I don’t know about 6 months ago and I got my friend Nayeli addicted to it. I just wanted to say how this game has been a great experience for me and I will continue to stay loyal to this game. The creator of this website is BRILLIANT!
Anonymous
August 9, 2012
the link is not working for me dude……..
Anonymous
August 9, 2012
Which link and what do you mean by not working?
typeracer
August 9, 2012
The link with ……
i am not able to post it on facebook…..
Anonymous
August 10, 2012
Oh I see what you mean! Facebook doesn’t like the HTML code. Will provide a fix for this shortly. Thanks for spotting this!
typeracer
August 10, 2012
The badge is an image URL that you can publish anywhere on the web, post on facebook, put on your resume/CV, or even email to your parents!
not working on fb…
Anonymous
August 10, 2012
Happy Anniversary to TR
Love this site.
COMRADE Schoaib Shahnawaz.
August 10, 2012
Thanks Comrade!
typeracer
August 10, 2012
One thing else Alex, Why gravatar.com’s profile is not working here on this blog anymore..?????
COMRADE Schoaib Shahnawaz.
August 10, 2012
I have no idea, sorry. I didn’t change anything.
typeracer
August 10, 2012
Well, good to see you back on track Alex, and thanks that you changed the copyright 2008–2011 to 2008-2012 I had posted about this on TR group on FB as well.
I have a request from you that at least visit the forum and TR group once a week, I know you are a busy person but for the sake of TR you have to do it because there are many cheaters and people face some problems and it’s good to see that the owner is responding to their questions.
Regards
Comrade.
PS: Where is ChimChim these days??
COMRADE Schoaib Shahnawaz.
August 10, 2012
Happy Anniversary! \m/
Jaideep
August 14, 2012
Heay, I am realy good and I just got on.
Laila
March 12, 2013
happy record making …
n keep on typing guys….
ajityahoo876
August 11, 2012
how to change the time of the race track?
Anonymous
August 12, 2012
I’ve already completed 1 thousand races! I still have to practice because I’ve got 54 wpm in average. I hope anybody can tell me what are the secrets for making up to 100 wpm!. I’m gladly waiting for your reply you can send me your email plazajosenestor@yahoo.com so that I can improve my typing skills in shorter time. My goal right now is to make it up to 2 thousand race! Thanks for the mod of the typeracer.com I am addicted to it. More power! 😀
Jose Nestor Plaza
November 29, 2012
I just typed the same paragraph four times in 16 minutes. Are there not as many paragraphs that come up in the races?
Anonymous
January 1, 2013
Great site. Sometimes boring and how do you chat?
taylor
April 8, 2013
When I do the typing challenge, in the CAPTCHA bit, I can’t get anywhere near my typing speed. I just did 147wpm and and on the test only 53wpm. I sit there waiting 16 seconds for the text to appear and this happens. Can anyone tell me what’s happening? Is my computer up to scratch? Thanks for the help – Rachael
Anonymous
April 25, 2013