TypeRacer News
Personalize Your Avatar (Happy Holidays!)
Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah! This year Santa Claus brings presents for everyone who supported TypeRacer by upgrading to a premium membership. All of you nice people get to choose from a brand new set of 15 “cool” avatars for your racing pleasure! This collection will be gradually expanded throughout 2012, so this holiday season, please consider [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 13 so far )Ghost Racing and Practice Racetracks
You just got a new opponent on typeracer.com. It’s one of the toughest you’ll ever face – relentless and untiring, this opponent is… yourself! Ghost Racing is the new practice option on typeracer that lets you race against yourself! When you click on the ghost icon (labeled “Do over?”) at the end of a race, you will be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 40 so far )Introducing the Pit Stop
Today we’re launching a huge addition to TypeRacer! The Pit Stop is the new social and informational area of typeracer.com. It’s a place where you can take a break from typeracing to get to know your competitors and let them get to know you. Here is an overview of the specific new features: Profiles Each racer now [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 17 so far )Design A New Universe
athletics (noun): competitive activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness, and skill. — wiktionary.org Over the past three years, TypeRacer has been a fun, even addictive, virtual world for personal development and sportive competition, visited by thousands of people every day. Although I like to think that my selection of funny and interesting texts for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 134 so far )TypeRacer Chrome App
If Chrome is your browser of choice (quite a few megaracers would argue that it lets you achieve the best WPMs), I’m happy to announce the release of the TypeRacer Chrome App! Like most Chrome apps, it’s basically just a fancy bookmark, but in the future it might be able to take advantage of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 25 so far )Improving Your Typing Speed Over Time
A chart of your entire race history is now available on typeracer in the My Scores section! If you’ve completed less than 100 races it plots your scores directly, otherwise it plots your averages at evenly spaced intervals between your first and last race. The new chart replaces the old “last 50″ chart. As you [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 23 so far )Introducing Premium Accounts and Experience Levels
Starting today, everyone’s scorecard will have a new statistic: Experience Level. Experience levels range from Typist 0 to Typist 9 are based on the number of races of you’ve finished. A corresponding icon will appear next to your name to award your achievement and to let your opponents know at a glance how experienced you [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 813 so far )Do you like typing?
Then “Like” TypeRacer on Facebook and spread the word! We’ve added a new “Like” button under the main menu. When you use it, your Facebook friends will get a news feed saying that you like typeracer.com and hopefully you will have more friends to race against as a result! In other news, we’ve added lots [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 111 so far )Looking back on 2009, Kicking off 2010
Thanks for making 2009 another great year on TypeRacer! Last year we launched some groundbreaking features such as typing in 50 other languages and many more great things are coming in 2010. To kick off the new year, I’d like to first unveil the I TYPERACER T-shirt designed by Alex Foygel (you can see more [...]
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