Winners of Typeracer 7th Anniversary Contest – and a new Typeracer World Record!
Hi All, I’m pleased to announce the winners of Typeracer’s 7th anniversary typing contest! The details of that contest were outlined in our last blog post. To refresh everyone’s memory, in the 7 days starting from Apr. 7th, all racers were given a score calculated by multiplying their average typing speed by the number of words typed during these 7 days; the users with the 7 highest scores have won a prize. Furthermore, all typists who completed at least 7 races during those 7 days were entered into a drawing, and 7 lucky winners were selected. Below are our champs (note that #8 to #15 are “honorable mention”, and in italics):
| # | Racer | Points earned | Avg. WPM | Races completed | Words typed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erniechiew  |
16,363,180 | 122 | 2383 | 133,823 |
| 3 | shoaib_shahnawaz  |
13,270,459 | 109 | 2146 | 120,725 |
| 4 | nadel1232  |
8,631,589 | 111 | 1973 | 78,052 |
| 5 | aaron_livefit  |
8,186,580 | 139 | 1256 | 59,220 |
| 6 | elusoryx  |
7,470,999 | 131 | 1022 | 57,153 |
| 7 | kevinski1  |
6,658,903 | 96 | 1536 | 70,374 |
| 8 | lucean  |
5,635,020 | 97 | 1035 | 58,161 |
| 9 | zoli | 5,314,553 | 64 | 2200 | 83,091 |
| 10 | janlonden  |
4,686,780 | 90 | 920 | 52,187 |
| 11 | maximumchris2  |
4,401,835 | 142 | 846 | 31,162 |
| 12 | tesla_diesel  |
4,283,196 | 116 | 668 | 37,122 |
| 13 | aaindtharivalan_p |
4,188,288 | 92 | 819 | 45,625 |
| 14 | christhomas95  |
3,986,767 | 97 | 737 | 41,060 |
| 15 | kellysgreens |
3,897,979 | 126 | 863 | 31,255 |
We’ll be contacting #1 to #7 to ask what prize they prefer. A special congrats to our winner Ernie C (erniechiew), who completed 2,383 races at an impressive average of 122 wpm!
Moving on now, below are the lottery winners, who were randomly selected from the pool of typists who completed at least 7 races in 7 days starting on Apr. 7th.
| # | Lucky Draw Winners | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | little_dino |
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| 2 | rovr |
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| 3 | tm_mad  |
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| 4 | flyafyoungblood |
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| 5 | cvanskiver67 |
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| 6 | ashikur11 |
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| 7 | oscaroketch  |
Congratulations to the winners–we’ll be contacting you via email to arrange the prize distribution. Thanks for participating, and happy birthday Typeracer!
-David Pritts (valikor)
TypeRacer Blog 
[…] Edit: Contest results have been posted here! […]
Celebrate Typeracer’s 7th Birthday with a Typing Contest! | The TypeRacer Blog
April 23, 2015
Thank you for the shoutout! I appreciate the premium account. That day definitely took its toll on me. In all I believe it was about 23 hours 15 minutes of continuous typing, switching between a private track and the main track to avoid waiting and rack up races faster. I didn’t feel any pain, just a lot of fatigue, but my average speed has dropped by about 10 WPM since that day.
Thank you also for your work on the site. This is definitely the best place I’ve found to type online. I like seeing that some of the cheaters are being removed from the top 10s as well!
Best wishes,
Michael DeRoche
Michael DeRoche
April 23, 2015
Oh, and congratulations to Ernie Chiew for the #1 place! I thought I had it for sure, but obviously he finished well above me.
Michael DeRoche
April 23, 2015
Thanks, Michael! I thought I was set for second place as well, but the math somehow worked in my favor. Kudos to you for completing 2000 races in under 24 hours while still maintaining a solid average WPM throughout the torture — certainly a more impressive feat than my coming in #1.
Ernie
May 6, 2015
congrats all winners ! ! !
thank u typeracer for organising such events…… looking forward for more..
aaindthu
April 24, 2015
Have you emailed us yet? I’m just wondering because I’m not entirely sure that my account (nadel1232) has a registered e-mail on there.
Jeremy
April 24, 2015
Yes, you have a registered Yahoo email address, and we contacted you there.
Thanks!
David Pritts
Typeracer
davidtyperacer
May 3, 2015
And your response has been received 🙂
davidtyperacer
May 3, 2015
Yay! Glad it paid off. Started 4 days late but glad I caught up.
Justin
April 25, 2015
Thanks for those reading, I am a twelve year old typist! I recommend this to anyone who is looking to improve their typing or just want to practice.This may not be the best place to improve but it might help you. @GameDevs Could you possibly make a place for kids that are interested in racing each other? Because when ever I go to race online I have to go versus people who are typing 100+ WPM I would enjoy this more if their was one. (My stats) Skill level : Pro / Average speed: 59 WPM
Anonymous
June 3, 2015
Hi Anonymous,
Your speed is 59wpm, but you are usually matched against 100+ wpm users? If so, please email support AT typeracer DOT com so we can investigate. This should not happen generally-speaking.
David Pritts
Typeracer
davidtyperacer
June 11, 2015
Is it possible to add some statistic that might encourage people to not leave races during play? Way too often you end up playing against yourself because people move on to the next match.
SwaaX
Mads Andersen
July 2, 2015
I absolutely detest the extremely distracting ads, that keep popping up on the both sides of the screen, right before a typing race begins. Please, Please design this website to get rid of these ads completely.
I have a focusing problem and these ads are distracting me from concentrating and building up my speed, but most importantly, my accuracy!!!!!
Anonymous
July 16, 2015
When I have to waste time ‘hiding’ ads, the type racer screen containing the item to be typed, is frequently blocked by “type this” message. The problem is this message often blocks the word and cannot be typed. Eventually, an another automatic message pops up “you are out of time” Please have your IT/web designers fix this
Liz
July 16, 2015
Thanks typeracer. Now aiming at clocking 60 words per minute. I will be glad if given assistance on how to reach this target. Kenya loves you!!!
OSCAR
July 27, 2015