Archive for January, 2018
“Lag” on TypeRacer – And the Secret to Unlocking the Fastest TypeRacer Scores
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The question: Lag?
If you’ve spent some time on TypeRacer, you may have noticed a puzzling anomaly: sometimes your score at the end of the race doesn’t match the score recorded in your typing replay — both of which are displayed at the end of the race.

MaximumChris2 (a.k.a. “Fastest Fingers in India”) loses approximately 27wpm due to latency. Click to see the replay.
The “replay” score is only ever the same or faster than the “recorded” score — if the recorded score is accurate, why is the replay score faster? If the replay score is accurate, why am I getting robbed of my true speed in the officially-recorded score? What’s the difference? We’ll get to the answers below.
I’ve been meaning to blog on this topic for some time now; tonight is the night. While playing some TypeRacer this evening — amidst some problems with my connections — I encountered the bane of gamers (and typists) everywhere: infuriating, punishing lag! (This is how bad it was.)
The lag was of an intensity reminiscent of 1990s dial-up internet on 56k modems — the kind that induces sudden urges to tear out one’s hair and scream, and the kind you may remember back when the internet would drop whenever your mom tried to make a phone call. (Wiki links for younger TypeRacers: dial-up internet and 56k modems).
So what’s really happening here?
The answer: Latency
The answer is that TypeRacer, like many online games, is fundamentally subject to network latency (in competitive TypeRacer parlance, “ping time”). In other words, it takes time (generally a fraction of a second) for your computer to talk to our servers; factors such as your connection quality and distance from our servers work against you if they are poor/far, because they effectively cause our servers to “think” it took you slightly longer to finish the race (thus slower speeds) — after all, it took slightly longer for our servers to receive confirmation that you finished your race.
Why are there sometimes two different scores, though? Because the speed recorded in the replay is calculated arithmetically based on the timing of each character you typed, irrespective of your internet connection. We still use the ping-inclusive speed as your official score, because it’s calculated server-side and isn’t susceptible to hacking or alteration by cheaters — i.e., it’s part of a secure design that ensures TypeRacer remains fair.

Typists at different skill levels type different subsets of all the texts on TypeRacer. Explore TypeRacer texts in the Pit Stop or on TypeRacerData.com.
The good news:
1) Unless you’re in the top 5% of fastest typists, this will likely have little to no impact on you.
2) If you’re in North America and/or have a good internet connection, the impact will generally be negligible.
3) TypeRacer scales its quote length by skill level to ensure that races are long enough to be accurately measured (i.e., faster typists compete on longer quotes, and vice versa).

This screenshot has been included for two reasons. (1) It shows me beating TypeRacer legend Izzy; (2) It shows that, even for typists on questionable internet connections and located on the other side of the world from TypeRacer servers (I’m in China), TypeRacer still generally records your speed with around 98-99% accuracy. The text typed here was among the shortest “Megaracer” texts (209 characters vs. a 200 character minimum), and the recording accuracy would be higher with longer texts and longer races.
#1 and #2 are more or less self-explanatory, since a fraction of a second only matters for the fastest typists, and folks within the North America will generally have a speedy connection to our servers. On #3, many TypeRacer fans are unaware that typists at each skill level will only type texts within a certain range of length; these lengths aim to ensure that each TypeRace lasts around 30+ seconds, and generally no shorter than 26-27 seconds. At this duration, even a slow connection will have minimal impact on your recorded typing speed, guaranteeing accuracy. We also don’t want races to be too short because we don’t think people want ultra-short races — how annoying would it be to wait 5-20 seconds for a race to start, for a racing experience that’s just a fraction of that time?
It is at this point that things get interesting — and controversial. As I write this, I am bracing myself for the yelling, the livid rants, etc. that will be directed at me on the TypeRacer Discord chat, through email, etc. 🙂
The Secret to Typing Ultra-Fast on TypeRacer — and why Lag is Probably Your Fault
For folks who read this post eagerly looking forward to insightful typing advice, I’m sorry to disappoint — this particular post gives no tips on improving your typing. However, I am going to tell you one way (read: “hack”) to get better scores on TypeRacer – the way the pros do it.
The operative idea is simple: most people can sustain higher speeds over shorter periods of time, and on shorter texts — especially after practicing a specific text a few times.
To take advantage of this and get fast scores, we have two main options — i.e. ways to type shorter content:
(1) Find a friend or random person who is a slower typist (beginner level, 0-24wpm) and race against the typing ghosts in his/her replays. This enables you to race ultra-short texts, even if you’re a faster typist. (Saving these scores requires Premium.)
(2) Race against a slower (beginner level) friend in a private race track that he/she hosted. If you don’t have a friend, you can simulate a friend by creating a new account (guest or registered), get a slow average by doing one purposefully slow race, and then hosting a “beginner racetrack” for yourself. Use two different browsers for your two accounts. Anyone who joins this racetrack will be served races on the shortest texts on the site.
This is how most of the recent single-race speed records have been set on TypeRacer; e.g., how Michael DeRoche broke 300wpm late last year.
So there you have it. Although we here at TypeRacer don’t exactly endorse this type of racing, we don’t have any reason (or a good way!) to prohibit typists from typing the content they want to — even if it’s not the appropriate length for their skill level. (Related: type ultra-long texts in our Marathon universe. One race might take you 20 minutes. Remember to set the display to show just one line of text.)
If you’ve never tried this before, you might find it fun to give it a try. Keep in mind that this is not what TypeRacer was designed for, and by actively seeking out the shortest quotes (even if you’re a Megaracer), you’re circumventing the fundamental controls that TypeRacer has in place to ensure accuracy of your recorded speeds; you’ll be entering the wild wild west, and there’s no guarantee that you won’t lose typing speed due to “lag” or “ping time”, especially if you’re on a slower connection and/or far away from North America.
Good luck breaking those speed records!
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TypeRacerData.com Growth in 2017 — 39 million TypeRaces!
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TypeRacerData.com is “a supplemental, third-party information center for TypeRacer” which is free and open to everyone for tracking stats in more detail, and building an even more engaging typing experience. It’s particularly great for statistic enthusiasts.
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Examples of what it can be used for:
- Track your typing speed on a month-by-month basis
- Find your fastest X races, see what texts they were on, and try to beat your scores on these texts (you’ll need a TypeRacer premium account if you want to save practice mode scores)
- Browse the shortest/longest and easiest/hardest texts on TypeRacer
- View other metrics, such as the variance among your scores, and the average of your fastest race on each text (a.k.a. “text bests“)
- Check your longest “marathons” — i.e. greatest number of races in any 24-hour period
- Much more!
Launching in late 2016, the year 2017 was the first full year that the site operated.
During 2017, the database grew to include over 39 million TypeRacer races and 23,000 accounts!
This may be a small fraction of the millions of registered TypeRacer users, but it is the largest third-party TypeRacer database in history (and yes, others have been developed!) and among the fastest competitive typists on the site, it’s a largely comprehensive and authoritative record.
Congrats to TypeRacerData, and a special thanks to its founder Noah (licahfox – TRData) who has poured a lot of sweat and blood into building and maintaining this resource for the TypeRacer community!
The growth charts are below and the full data are public on Google Sheets.

TypeRacerData doubled in size, indexing around 20,000,000 new races in 2017.

The number of accounts on TypeRacerData quintupled over 2017 — from fewer than 5,000 to almost 25,000.
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2017 TypeRacer Competition Winners and Assorted Announcements
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Today we’re pleased to announce the TypeRacer 2017 yearly competition winners. The concepts of Points and Competitions were introduced in July; for anyone who’s not familiar, points are earned by completing Type Races (calculated as Points = Typing speed * Text length) and competitions are conducted daily, weekly, monthly, and annually, with winners being calculated based on total points accumulated. The feature wasn’t applied retroactively, so today’s 2017 competition winners are those typists who accumulated the greatest number of points from 7/26/2017 to the end of the year.
The list of the top 50 typists in 2017 is below in this blog post (the full top-100 is in TypeRacer Speed Records and Contest Winners (Google Docs]). Coming out at the top were TypeRacer stars Wordracer888 (TRData) and Deroche1 (TRData) — both averaging between 124-125wpm this year — as well as newcomer Viellain (TRData). We’ll be sending them some TypeRacer T-shirts to say “Congrats!” — it’s great having you guys on the site.

What better way to let people know you’re serious about typing than sporting a TypeRacer T-shirt or hoodie?
We’ll also be sending a TypeRacer t-shirt to the guy whose last on the list below — Mr. Jon Lachney (jlachney – TRData) — for a couple reasons. (1) To thank him for doing a great job leading the TypeRacer moderation team, and (2) To congratulate him on his 2017 typing performance (after all, #50 may be last on the list below, but it’s definitely not shabby out of millions of registered users!).
We’re offering a free year premium subscription to the other leaders in the top-10 — although at least half of them have already supported TypeRacer by purchasing one. We’ll give them next year free if they want.
Congrats to everyone, and good luck in the 2018 contest! The winners are listed below, and a few additional announcements are at the bottom of the post.
2017 TypeRacer Competition Winners
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | wordracer888 | 3,544,345 | 124.4 WPM | 172 WPM | 98.30% | 31627 |
2 | deroche1 | 2,901,098 | 124.8 WPM | 317 WPM | 97.80% | 34193 |
3 | viellain | 2,831,396 | 105.4 WPM | 222 WPM | 97.90% | 40325 |
4 | bblaise | 1,710,602 | 141.5 WPM | 203 WPM | 99.10% | 14674 |
5 | pjayys | 1,625,837 | 93.7 WPM | 132 WPM | 97.70% | 19663 |
6 | chimchimchim | 1,589,109 | 116.8 WPM | 170 WPM | 98.20% | 15227 |
7 | northern_lights | 1,511,745 | 99.1 WPM | 145 WPM | 98.60% | 16762 |
8 | mikerubby | 1,306,127 | 75.4 WPM | 136 WPM | 97.00% | 20465 |
9 | atthetop | 1,252,103 | 122.2 WPM | 232 WPM | 96.90% | 13796 |
10 | kayak1 | 1,158,499 | 114.8 WPM | 172 WPM | 97.50% | 11103 |
11 | khronic | 1,086,700 | 107.1 WPM | 200 WPM | 97.80% | 11766 |
12 | p0sh | 1,053,562 | 133.5 WPM | 225 WPM | 98.60% | 10434 |
13 | disclo5ure | 1,047,064 | 149.6 WPM | 222 WPM | 98.80% | 8702 |
14 | lithox2 | 1,001,555 | 128.4 WPM | 200 WPM | 97.60% | 8994 |
15 | crdm0 | 972,073 | 139.0 WPM | 209 WPM | 98.50% | 8453 |
16 | alpha_panda | 959,177 | 148.0 WPM | 285 WPM | 98.50% | 8665 |
17 | newkeyboardlove | 903,845 | 133.6 WPM | 243 WPM | 98.10% | 10105 |
18 | modest_ked | 891,694 | 132.8 WPM | 259 WPM | 97.10% | 8384 |
19 | mark40511 | 851,227 | 114.5 WPM | 164 WPM | 99.20% | 9867 |
20 | thunberg123 | 791,723 | 116.4 WPM | 168 WPM | 98.10% | 7936 |
21 | oneguardsam | 782,917 | 78.7 WPM | 117 WPM | 97.00% | 11300 |
22 | typingartist2 | 753,037 | 149.4 WPM | 207 WPM | 98.20% | 5825 |
23 | oooyay | 751,409 | 96.4 WPM | 137 WPM | 97.20% | 8703 |
24 | rportnoy | 749,107 | 88.6 WPM | 126 WPM | 98.70% | 9762 |
25 | tajiracer | 744,474 | 103.7 WPM | 160 WPM | 98.70% | 8221 |
26 | vdud3 | 743,565 | 129.6 WPM | 181 WPM | 97.90% | 7148 |
27 | vinniwooh | 739,708 | 133.0 WPM | 280 WPM | 98.60% | 11696 |
28 | smallchicken | 736,896 | 93.3 WPM | 165 WPM | 97.40% | 9214 |
29 | mcaso123 | 735,811 | 154.0 WPM | 246 WPM | 97.30% | 7403 |
30 | get_a_lif3 | 698,900 | 115.5 WPM | 177 WPM | 97.80% | 6775 |
31 | vinninq | 691,569 | 124.0 WPM | 205 WPM | 98.00% | 10976 |
32 | shariqueahmer | 690,667 | 109.9 WPM | 175 WPM | 95.90% | 7233 |
33 | vixt | 681,851 | 99.8 WPM | 175 WPM | 97.00% | 7701 |
34 | neopergoss | 679,803 | 104.9 WPM | 136 WPM | 98.40% | 7217 |
35 | mc0sta | 678,301 | 63.3 WPM | 96 WPM | 96.90% | 12850 |
36 | alanis | 657,551 | 115.2 WPM | 167 WPM | 97.80% | 6319 |
37 | hujala | 649,283 | 150.1 WPM | 222 WPM | 98.50% | 5594 |
38 | volhosis | 630,919 | 129.6 WPM | 249 WPM | 97.50% | 7107 |
39 | miket349 | 630,723 | 103.5 WPM | 144 WPM | 98.00% | 6950 |
40 | mattbierwirth | 624,798 | 102.7 WPM | 138 WPM | 97.20% | 6752 |
41 | ronakkaria | 619,250 | 74.6 WPM | 121 WPM | 96.60% | 9500 |
42 | mako640 | 608,723 | 155.6 WPM | 190 WPM | 99.10% | 4377 |
43 | amun | 598,470 | 127.5 WPM | 184 WPM | 98.30% | 5295 |
44 | shefakala | 595,091 | 92.1 WPM | 140 WPM | 96.30% | 7474 |
45 | justiceex | 588,105 | 88.2 WPM | 138 WPM | 97.00% | 7490 |
46 | stewiegriffin666 | 581,453 | 94.1 WPM | 140 WPM | 97.30% | 7310 |
47 | alyciahtollison | 560,395 | 109.3 WPM | 152 WPM | 98.40% | 5730 |
48 | dizo | 554,337 | 74.3 WPM | 103 WPM | 97.90% | 8499 |
49 | nameless337 | 546,723 | 132.8 WPM | 165 WPM | 99.20% | 4564 |
50 | jlachney | 543,211 | 124.8 WPM | 225 WPM | 97.40% | 6435 |
Monthly Competition Winners
DEC 2017
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | deroche1 | 939,780 | 150.5 WPM | 317 WPM | 98.60% | 6996 |
2 | bblaise | 496,608 | 143.1 WPM | 203 WPM | 99.10% | 4175 |
3 | newkeyboardlove | 459,383 | 129.9 WPM | 243 WPM | 97.90% | 4415 |
4 | wordracer888 | 388,218 | 128.7 WPM | 172 WPM | 98.30% | 3277 |
5 | pjayys | 381,254 | 98.4 WPM | 132 WPM | 97.90% | 4313 |
6 | viellain | 325,623 | 143.2 WPM | 222 WPM | 98.10% | 2779 |
7 | shariqueahmer | 316,345 | 112.1 WPM | 175 WPM | 96.00% | 3230 |
8 | trihard7 | 311,221 | 86.6 WPM | 123 WPM | 97.90% | 4089 |
9 | typingartist2 | 296,175 | 152.1 WPM | 207 WPM | 98.50% | 2191 |
10 | vinninq | 284,243 | 124.5 WPM | 205 WPM | 98.00% | 3872 |
11 | atthetop | 280,335 | 122.5 WPM | 232 WPM | 96.80% | 2728 |
12 | kayak1 | 266,717 | 113.1 WPM | 165 WPM | 97.40% | 2551 |
13 | lowda9 | 256,275 | 87.2 WPM | 122 WPM | 98.20% | 3296 |
14 | argyrwnt | 241,521 | 54.5 WPM | 87 WPM | 95.90% | 5571 |
15 | chimchimchim | 238,712 | 118.9 WPM | 170 WPM | 98.50% | 2189 |
NOV 2017
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | northern_lights | 777,667 | 100.2 WPM | 145 WPM | 98.50% | 8500 |
2 | deroche1 | 634,416 | 88.3 WPM | 308 WPM | 97.70% | 11568 |
3 | wordracer888 | 569,763 | 125.5 WPM | 170 WPM | 98.30% | 5043 |
4 | viellain | 511,373 | 142.4 WPM | 218 WPM | 98.00% | 4360 |
5 | smallchicken | 492,835 | 93.1 WPM | 159 WPM | 97.40% | 6180 |
6 | crdm0 | 369,829 | 140.8 WPM | 209 WPM | 98.40% | 3240 |
7 | bblaise | 347,570 | 143.8 WPM | 202 WPM | 99.10% | 2963 |
8 | mikerubby | 342,289 | 79.4 WPM | 136 WPM | 97.00% | 5351 |
9 | analternateaccount | 302,703 | 109.3 WPM | 168 WPM | 97.80% | 3111 |
10 | vinninq | 283,474 | 124.2 WPM | 202 WPM | 97.90% | 4851 |
11 | lithox2 | 281,471 | 129.9 WPM | 197 WPM | 97.50% | 2614 |
12 | p0sh | 281,302 | 134.4 WPM | 221 WPM | 98.60% | 2963 |
13 | pjayys | 278,058 | 96.9 WPM | 131 WPM | 97.80% | 3200 |
14 | y4mz | 263,551 | 98.5 WPM | 150 WPM | 96.50% | 2981 |
15 | tajiracer | 262,624 | 102.7 WPM | 137 WPM | 98.60% | 2815 |
OCT 2017
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | wordracer888 | 1,103,479 | 123.1 WPM | 171 WPM | 98.30% | 9945 |
2 | viellain | 811,400 | 131.5 WPM | 213 WPM | 97.70% | 7673 |
3 | northern_lights | 599,526 | 97.8 WPM | 139 WPM | 98.70% | 6760 |
4 | deroche1 | 546,637 | 131.1 WPM | 287 WPM | 97.30% | 8827 |
5 | crdm0 | 523,935 | 138.3 WPM | 205 WPM | 98.50% | 4500 |
6 | lithox2 | 470,454 | 125.6 WPM | 200 WPM | 97.60% | 4199 |
7 | p0sh | 294,190 | 131.7 WPM | 213 WPM | 98.50% | 2462 |
8 | mikerubby | 273,533 | 77.1 WPM | 124 WPM | 97.10% | 4116 |
9 | largev | 272,617 | 121.0 WPM | 188 WPM | 97.70% | 3974 |
10 | bblaise | 260,967 | 143.5 WPM | 192 WPM | 99.20% | 2219 |
11 | kayak1 | 258,305 | 114.6 WPM | 163 WPM | 97.50% | 2477 |
12 | atthetop | 257,956 | 122.7 WPM | 226 WPM | 96.90% | 2644 |
13 | pjayys | 252,915 | 96.5 WPM | 128 WPM | 97.90% | 3031 |
14 | alpha_panda | 250,876 | 147.4 WPM | 271 WPM | 98.30% | 2288 |
15 | oooyay | 248,704 | 98.2 WPM | 137 WPM | 97.20% | 2817 |
SEP 2017
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | viellain | 1,142,533 | 86.4 WPM | 204 WPM | 98.00% | 25172 |
2 | wordracer888 | 782,754 | 124.2 WPM | 170 WPM | 98.30% | 7014 |
3 | deroche1 | 758,946 | 153.3 WPM | 300 WPM | 97.70% | 6599 |
4 | chimchimchim | 369,278 | 117.0 WPM | 163 WPM | 98.20% | 3521 |
5 | modest_ked | 367,990 | 131.6 WPM | 216 WPM | 97.10% | 3314 |
6 | mikerubby | 317,123 | 71.4 WPM | 109 WPM | 96.80% | 5209 |
7 | pjayys | 315,874 | 91.3 WPM | 126 WPM | 97.60% | 3979 |
8 | kayak1 | 280,721 | 116.5 WPM | 172 WPM | 97.50% | 2690 |
9 | thunberg123 | 277,777 | 115.8 WPM | 168 WPM | 98.20% | 2855 |
10 | vinniwooh | 274,627 | 133.2 WPM | 194 WPM | 98.70% | 4749 |
11 | disclo5ure | 271,543 | 150.1 WPM | 218 WPM | 98.80% | 2401 |
12 | wumpified8 | 265,723 | 136.2 WPM | 193 WPM | 97.60% | 2180 |
13 | dizo | 244,025 | 74.4 WPM | 101 WPM | 97.90% | 3741 |
14 | susavile | 220,000 | 85.0 WPM | 119 WPM | 97.80% | 2916 |
15 | primalknight | 218,547 | 129.5 WPM | 211 WPM | 97.70% | 2966 |
AUG 2017
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | wordracer888 | 620,240 | 123.3 WPM | 169 WPM | 98.40% | 5626 |
2 | vixt | 426,588 | 98.7 WPM | 158 WPM | 96.90% | 4880 |
3 | chimchimchim | 418,640 | 115.8 WPM | 165 WPM | 98.10% | 4131 |
4 | pjayys | 397,735 | 88.0 WPM | 118 WPM | 97.60% | 5140 |
5 | typingartist2 | 383,871 | 147.7 WPM | 206 WPM | 98.00% | 3055 |
6 | bblaise | 351,537 | 138.1 WPM | 192 WPM | 99.00% | 3134 |
7 | oooyay | 271,887 | 94.1 WPM | 134 WPM | 97.10% | 3233 |
8 | ultrashibe | 246,676 | 118.5 WPM | 180 WPM | 97.00% | 4158 |
9 | modest_ked | 245,952 | 132.2 WPM | 220 WPM | 97.30% | 2417 |
10 | vinniwooh | 242,717 | 130.2 WPM | 188 WPM | 98.60% | 3725 |
11 | atthetop | 240,046 | 121.4 WPM | 215 WPM | 96.90% | 3061 |
12 | dizo | 239,694 | 74.0 WPM | 103 WPM | 97.90% | 3690 |
13 | khronic | 223,622 | 106.0 WPM | 193 WPM | 97.70% | 2421 |
14 | mark40511 | 207,607 | 109.3 WPM | 160 WPM | 99.00% | 2148 |
15 | tencion | 202,495 | 102.6 WPM | 143 WPM | 97.10% | 2230 |
JUL 2017
Username | Points | Avg. speed | Best speed | Accuracy | Races | |
1 | erikjscott | 133,865 | 145.2 WPM | 219 WPM | 98.70% | 1113 |
2 | bblaise | 125,339 | 138.8 WPM | 183 WPM | 99.00% | 1090 |
3 | jlachney | 114,565 | 119.6 WPM | 196 WPM | 97.30% | 931 |
4 | playscrabble | 108,781 | 131.9 WPM | 182 WPM | 98.30% | 920 |
5 | vixt | 106,303 | 91.9 WPM | 131 WPM | 96.50% | 1316 |
6 | fastermart | 102,641 | 108.1 WPM | 159 WPM | 97.80% | 964 |
7 | atthetop | 81,944 | 121.3 WPM | 213 WPM | 96.80% | 991 |
8 | wordracer888 | 79,892 | 124.9 WPM | 170 WPM | 98.20% | 722 |
9 | alanis | 75,709 | 112.2 WPM | 156 WPM | 97.80% | 775 |
10 | typingartist2 | 72,901 | 148.3 WPM | 205 WPM | 98.10% | 578 |
11 | oooyay | 70,907 | 92.6 WPM | 120 WPM | 97.10% | 868 |
12 | jessegarcia | 70,849 | 135.3 WPM | 186 WPM | 97.70% | 609 |
13 | tereterna | 63,439 | 112.0 WPM | 145 WPM | 98.00% | 639 |
14 | elusoryx | 60,809 | 136.6 WPM | 174 WPM | 98.50% | 514 |
15 | tesla_diesel | 58,696 | 120.4 WPM | 153 WPM | 98.70% | 522 |
Other Announcements
We have a few additional announcements below:
- Typist⦗𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐋⦘𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘕𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯 (osubora – TRData) has made a generous $20 contribution for the sake of sponsoring this year’s first monthly contest. I’ve personally matched his contribution, so we have a $40 prize pool for January. The prizes for the January competition are: 1ST PLACE – $20; 2ND and 3RD PLACE – $10. (Paypal account required). Good luck!
- The winner of TypeRacer Christmas art contest was been updated on the blog post here.
- As a quick “Christmas gift” to a few folks in the community who’ve been asking, we’ve made two recent changes to TypeRacer universes. (1) began a pilot of a new “marathon” universe dedicated to ultra-long texts — currently they’re between 1,500 and 8,000 characters. (The longest texts on TR today are around 850 characters). We included texts such as The Declaration of Independence (8,000 characters) and MLK’s “I have a Dream” speech (3,000 characters). This track is not for the faint of heart! Make sure you click “Change display format” and choose to display text on a single line. (2) The “code” universe, which features texts in various programming languages, has received some new texts. Feel free to submit texts for either universe!
That’s all for today – happy new years and good luck improving your typing in 2018!

In the Marathon Universe, the ultra-long texts might not fit on your screen unless you change your TypeRacer display settings to use one line only. Recommended for only the most serious typists 🙂
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