Looking back on 2009, Kicking off 2010

ok sorry

Hi there Raheema – thanks for your comments of encouragement. I’m glad you’re optimistic, because I think it’ll be some time before I reach 128wpm. I feel super glued to 114wpm – it seems like its 50 years ago when I reached 114wpm! I don’t remember the actual text but it would have been one of the easier 4/5 line texts, as I am hopeless at the anything that requires a sprint speed. I am a bit of a “plod” typist really and do better on the longer texts.

Yeah, where’s the chatbox? I don’t know what the owner of this site is doing… maybe he’s gotten lazy 😉

(just kidding 🙂 )

Thanks to Phillies_Magic for some good races. Thanks to you, my 12,000th race was a memorable one… luckily you didn’t beat me in that one 😉

TypeRacer, one question for you. My friend Slobodan practiced for a couple of days a text “I know a bloke…” and he did here 140 wpm. Of course, since he is an average typist (70-75 wpm) he couldn’t pass the test. He didn’t cheat here, but he DID GET 140 wpm. What should he do?
Of course, I don’t need to say that he is veeeery, veeery disappointed about the site now. :-\

I knew people would like the idea of having a chatbox, the more the merrier, plus if many people like the idea typeracer will probably put one on typeracer.com
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Im also looking forward for that centuarian rank or whatever its called for 100wpm and up, more ranks more challenges for a young typist

I think they should make it with chat like on the personal racetracks that would be awesome!!

Anukool Deval How did you type 507wpm for half the race and then leave? Are you a cheat?
Typeracer I have screen captured him/her, if you’re interested please explain how to send.

yeah, i think that a chat box would awsome! and also i need some freinds.

;;; Typeracer I have screen captured him/her, if you’re interested please explain how to send.

FYI, it’s possible that there was a glitch of some sort. This happens sometimes, and people usually quit when they notice it because they don’t want the erroneous score recorded, from what I’ve heard. If it’s a new user it could go either way; in any case, click the user and use the Report feature and one of the admins will get it taken care of. 😉

;;; There’re some cheaters!,
;;; For example:
;;; S S (chimchimchim)

lol

;;; COIMBRA149 (coimbra)

LOL.

I think someone is sore.

well, andy, i’m glad you’re keeping up with the people who want a chat box!!!

Gentlemen, we have a new Typing God. That’s Sean Wrona! 203.7 wpm in last 10 races, 213 wpm max.typing speed. Impressive, isn’t it?!
Whoever thinks that he can beat his score, I would like see him/her to try it. My opinion is that his score is going to last for years.

232wpm!! Amazing Jelani, what text? was it legit? 😉

You’re right, Valikor; we’ve definitely had some good races.

Jelani, it’s mindboggling to see that score on the high scores list. I’m actually almost speechless. Incredible.

Mentioned in another thread, but not sure if you would read it, so i’m posting it here again.

For Traditional Chinese, one cannot do the verification test coz captcha doesnt work on traditional chinese characters. So all we can see are a bunch of meaningless boxes.

Soarer:

The obvious solution is to use simplified characters. While you’re at it, you can start speaking 普通话 instead 😉 (joking)

I’m actually going to Hong Kong in 1 week, maybe I’ll see you there!

Actually they’ve both already become #1.

Jelani 232 wpm, Sean 222…
Insane guys, congrats to you!
You’re probably the two fastest guys in the world (?).

By the way, thanks you typeracer for the translation in other language. Nice stuff … but (yes there is always a but!) the translation is pretty bad. Moreover in French you can’t type some caracters (or you have to use special ones). If you could do something about it would be great!

Adrien

well these scores still arnt impossible to achieve. Its 4 characters counts as 1 word not your actuall words per minute so the scores are still possible. Now for another short article.
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Oh Sean Wrona you are unbelievable! A new record 222wpm nicely played! Wooo these competitors are unbelievable Sean Wrona has overun Jalani Nelson once again and is now number 1 with an amazing average of 205.1,OUTSTANDING! Jalani Nelson doesnt have much hope left. Will she rise up and unleash her inner typing beast?! we shall see soon. Go Jalani Nelson and Sean Wrona!!!

Typeracer, PLEASE delete my 183 wpm typing. I even didn’t type the anti-cheating test. It’s accepted by site, don’t know why. My best is 166 wpm. That score should stay.

Zoran probably does have a point. I believe Jelani’s best was 205 and my best was 206 before yesterday, and that is a statistically unlikely improvement. I got a 210 and 211 yesterday to set the then-record of 203.5, then Jelani broke it thanks to the 232, then I broke it back thanks to the 222. I have some doubts myself. Jelani could have improved a ton, and probably has since he hadn’t played here in months. I have a 10 wpm higher average than him on my arenasnow (race-selecting) account, and a 5 wpm higher average on arenasnow2 (the account I finish every race on), and I do think he is faster. I do have a faster keyboard than I did when I was starting, but the discrepancy probably is not that much. I can’t really tell by the feel whether there was a glitch or not. The game didn’t freeze or anything, and I’m not sure I can feel the difference between 200 and 220. I can feel the difference between 160 and 180, though, which may indicate that speed was only actually around 200 rather than 220. Eh, I don’t know.

Prior to today my fastest score was 205, then this morning, in the span of about an hour, I got 232 and 209. It’s possible I hit a glitch, but I’m not sure. A glitch I’ve noticed (even in the distance past, not just today) is that if you get off to a very fast start, your wpm counter at first says something ridiculously high (like, over 300wpm), and takes a second or two to drift downward. I also did heavy race selection this morning though. In the very beginning, when I started TypeRacer, I finished every race. Then, before today, I entered every race but only finished the good ones. This morning, I didn’t even bother starting on a text if it looked hard.

ok Sean ill remember that from now on. On to another short article
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There you have it people. Sean Wrona and Jalani Nelson gave their side of the story. They both think that there might have been a glitch in the races they both made today. Many of our fans think it was a glitch. How well we resolve this? Well how bout asking them to do 10 more fresh races for both of them. What do you say Sean and Jalani 10 more races istn so bad is it? If they do do it we will see who is number 1 Sean Wrona or Jalani Nelson. 2 competitors and only room for one champ. Who will it be? Please place your votes in as soon as you can to who will be number 1 if both of them say yes to the 10 races.
—————————————— ok im not an article writer anymore. So Sean and Jalani will you do the ten races? Im dying to know who is the best. Can both of you do it please.

Lawl, Andy should be a sports reporter.

But is there an inaccuracy in his article? 😮

Did he say there are four characters per word when it’s really five? 😮

Is Typeracer using four instead of five? :O

Find out next time Alex logs in! 😀

You’re right Jack. It’s five.

yeah its 5 i mustve made a mistake when i did my report i dont proof read it so.

yeah!! i am loving type racer beter and better everyday!! 🙂

Does anyone know, is there a possibility that text “bugs”? I’m asking this because I did my record (new one with a bug – 183 wpm) on “Remember that humor is written…”, and 2 minutes ago I typed that text again with 3, 4 mistakes and I did 151 wpm (which is impossible for me to do it with so many mistakes).
Jelani, Sean, what texts did you type for your 200 wpm + scores?

@andy, you have no idea what are you talking about!!!

I forgot to put my name on that post…

I give up I think. I always thought Jelani was faster. I just replaced a 196 with a 196, and I should have waited before accepting that. Since I have a 190 and 193 in there too, I’d probably need 10 more 200+ races and not get impatient and accept a 190-200 race in order to beat what I have now, especially since I don’t see myself duplicating a 222 again.

I didn’t run into the bloke quote the past few days at all, actually. I don’t like that as much as everyone else seems to as I mistype the word bloke a lot for some reason. I think it may be that I type l’s wrong. I don’t know.

I think I tend to do best on the four-line ones, because I’m allowed to make an error and recover. The six-line ones I end up making too many errors on, while I usually can’t keep myself making an error on a two-line passage like the bloke quote…and if you make an error on a two-line passage it’s really hard to beat 150 or something.

I’ll still probably practice on my arenasnow2 account, for which I do not use race selection.

Did Jordan use race selection to get fourth place? I’m thinking so, because I am faster than him. So at least I can be first among the non-race selection accounts…

@andy, do you have some problem maybe?
I don’t know what are you trying to do by posting 20 comments per day.
@Sean Wrona, Jordan did choose the texts too, everyone did that in the top20 list.
I hope that the rules are going to be changed. I think there should be a place on typeracer especially made for those who want to be in some kind of list and there all of us who want that would typed 10 different texts IN A ROW (no choosing the texts as we do it now when we want to enter that list). That would be the most honest way, all other is a sh*t!

Good work Sean and Jelani 🙂

The possibility of a “glitch” is fairly straightforward. From my experience, it has nothing to do with the particular text you’re typing (How could it?)I also don’t know if it’s correct to call it a glitch.. it’s just the nature of the internet, as the communication between players’ computers and the server is not instantenous.

Typeracer simply takes the number of characters in a text, and divides by the time that it took you to finish the race… if your connection is going slow on a particular day, and it takes the data longer to reach the server, then you get a slightly slower score because the server thinks it took you longer. On the other hand, if somehow your app gets ahead of the server by a split second (maybe the server lags for a moment? I have no idea) then your speed can become faster.

When typing fast, a tiny amount of time can make a big difference. My best race ever was 204wpm. The text was 180 characters long, so I typed it in 10.588 seconds. In this case, 0.5 seconds would make the difference between 195wpm and 204wpm. So, if I got a 0.5 second head start because the server lagged or something like that, then my actual score was only 195. Imagine the advantage that a 1-second head-start would provide! 99.99% of the time, this is fairly inconsequential… but if a person is typing between ridiculously fast, a lot happens, even in a split second 🙂

So, I do think that occasionally, for whatever reason, Typeracer makes a user start typing either too early or too late, causing the phenomena Sean described (starting a race at 10,000wpm, etc.)

Anyone have an alternative explanation? I hope someone with more computer knowledge would chime in. I wonder if there’s anything that can be done to “fix” this…

I will suggest that an alternative ranking system (hopefully a more robust one) might make this inconsequential.

Well, fixing race selection is easy. Reset all players’ last 10 race averages to 0 and simply give each player a score of 0 if they leave a race. That would prevent race selection in the future. Since the maximum scores without race selection would probably be more in the 170-180 range, they would seem more attainable to more players and probably we’d get most of the top players typing more often than they had been in the previous months. That’s an easy fix and I wouldn’t mind it. I don’t know how popular it would be here though.

As for the glitch I suspect I know less about the inner workings of applets than most of the other Megaracers do, despite my relatively minor web design experience, so I’ll let Valikor deal with that one.

Reseting all players’ last 10 race averages to 0 and simply give each player a score of 0 if they leave a race is a great idea but i suspect that many people wont like it too

Zoran, stop cheating. 🙂 (joking)

I have no idea how feasible it is to “remove” a score. That would have to be a special request to Mr. Typeracer.

Sean:

That was among the longest, most off-topic rants I have read in a while! I liked it though 😉 Plus, I started it. I thought I recalled seeing on your facebook that you’d studied CS. Guess I was wrong.

I don’t do coding. When I was 12 I did web design, and since then I’ve tinkered in Javascript to create some scripts related to typeracer (I have not been involved in “coding the Typeracer database”… heavily or otherwise!), and done other misc. activities. I guess I’m better than average though.

I gave considerable thought to how I could steer this discussion in the direction of being on-topic, but to no avail. 🙂

David
PS – what’s 37 * 38 ? And how long did it take you to calculate? haha

what is the matter with the connection today,, the racer starts over one thousand words

im ready for some new things for typeracer this year!

I havent forgotten! Who wants a chat box!!! We got a few so far!

Typeracer please remove kumar(coomar) he is a cheat. Stabbing from behind! (comming from the start magically finishing without car progressing)

Rapid, why did it take you so long to get 150?

😉

Pure luck or a bug.

Dilys, thx although i think its a bit outrageous.
The text was “A little boy went out to play.”

Hi typeracer I just scored 172wpm on a text (my fastest so far), when I tried the anti-cheat test there was no text (blank for about 20 seconds) until counter reached 9 seconds. Is this normal or a bug??

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Il se passe que ça me casse les couilles car typeracer lag beaucoup. Alors le webmaster va faire un petit effort et me réparer tout ça. 🙂

Ah, et puis, si vous effacez mon message, prenez en compte ma considération (si vous savez lire le français ou si vous êtes assez intelligent pour prendre un traducteur assez fiable).

Et, tant qu’à faire, faut vraiment changer les guillemets pour les textes français. Vous savez, les guillemets comme ça : » ce serait bien de les changer en “, vous voyez ? Ce serait plus pratique pour taper les textes, vous me comprenez ? J’espère que oui.

Et puis, vous savez, je suis pas méchant, c’est juste que j’aimerai assez que ça bouge un peu. Vous penserez que j’ai raison, un jour ou l’autre.

Typeracer: I have just done 128wpm and although I passed the cheaters test, I don’t believe its real. I think there is still something wrong with the system.

Oh typeracer looks like you got some stuff to many bugs today and its a new month. What a shame. I dont know how all of this is happening to everyone and not me but i think typeracer should do something about this.

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this website dosen’t suck, it is awesome!!!

well, if we get the improvements, it will be while worth the wait andy!

it could be a year!

@Anyone who wishes to improve on this site I’ve compiled some of the most useful words to help increase your speed:
the to a of and I you that in it is was for they on are with like be The my or this me as not your can but one he from what all there had It – we will when have You just if no And more know time who were into do at so out don’t But life way up their has get world then his an which them only by been would think than never got some here because want see say first down day before He our other many make good going about So If through those people over him go every We That us most how In years things need man two now even come always There A these show her away thought thing much mind its being back any again When They where very said really little keyboard home am after Now.

what do you mean The Way Love Goes?

Raheema:

Always the optimist! I took on board what you said last time about accuracy and rhythm and it has helped, although I have a long way to go! What also helped were comments made by Noah (licafox), Jack Aviado and Valikor in the “Forum” on how to improve typing speed. Some of Noah’s suggestions were particularly useful.

they do it well! hey ya’ll

It was my comment for the cheater I am so fast.

please Brandon give us a break, learn to type instead of using voice recognition software!

hey ya’ll, what’s up. we really really do need
a chat box because it can get pretty suspicious
on how people type so dang fast. i wonder why
andy hasn’t been on here? i am finally beggining
to get past 40 gwam. i mean i know that aint
a lot but it is good for me let me know who wants
a chat box. can i get a whoop! whoop!

Are you coming out to play today Rambo (killing type)?

Make it 41 for the chatbox…!

Oh an anonomous whoever you are go for it! Keep practicing and you’ll keep getting better and better. Take me for an example. I used to type 27wpm now I type 65wpm! I hope I can make it to 80wpm by the end of this year!

Ramboo(UAE):
Same here – my exams are in May. Does this mean you will go slow again and I will be able to give you a good thrashing (you know just as I usually do – ha ha!)?

Civilization IV
developed by Sid Meier

Scores for this quote: Your last 10 Top 10
(hide)

1 152 wpm Phillies_Magic (fightin_phils)
2 145 wpm carlos rodriguez (yo_el10)
3 134 wpm Kevin N (blinky)
4 134 wpm carlos rodriguez (yo_el10)
5 133 wpm Phillies_Magic (fightin_phils)
6 133 wpm Andrew (alphaaj86)
7 132 wpm Robert Price (zapakh)
8 131 wpm RambooUAE (killingtype)
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9 130 wpm Phillies_Magic (fightin_phils)
10 128 wpm Dennis L (skys)

You’ve improved unbelievably RambooUAE to be in sort of company!

RambooUAE r u an Indian?

@James Bawnd ;):
Nah, RambooUAE’s not Indian…! The last three letters of his nickname is where he’s from… the United Arab Emirates! 🙂
And congrats RambooUAE, for being in the top 10 of the Civilization IV quote, and for reaching 150wpm! 😉

@David Joseph (davidj123256)- Maybe you are unaware that many of your compatriots live and work abroad. 😀

BTW Vet.= Veteran competitor 😉

@Incredulous Vet:
ah, makes sense… but, I checked his stats ‘n all the other day, and it said that he was from the United Arab Emirates…so! 🙂
But, who knows, I might be wrong… we’ll wait for him to reply..! And, Incredulous Vet., what’s your name in Typeracer?

English is the third most popular language.

Typeracer is hiding!!! 😛

You are partly correct. Mandarin is the most popular by far. 2x more than the second most popular language which is Hindi not Spanish. Close guess though. Spanish is the 4th most popular language in the world. But English and spanish is very close. About only 1 million more people in the whole world speak English more than Spanish.

Hello All!
This is I am so fast 😀 (fastestypist) here.
I was not aware of this website, since I had been a good typer in my company (as well as my entire group).
But if ya all support for deletion of my account, then I will surely support your decision. But remember, I will make a come back again.. You can contact me at fastestypist@gmail.com for any queries regarding my typing skills. If I were a cheater, I’d rather not had passed any anti-cheating (typing challenges) tests..

I am so fast 😀 (fastestypist)

Iamsofast does have a point. How could he be able to cheat on the anti-cheating test. Very few people on typeracer can do it now and I doubt he is one of them.

Re: fastestypist, it did seem odd to me as I saw that you scored in the 110’s and 120’s, and then in the high 160s, so I submitted a report once. Of course it’s up to admin to determine whether anything funny is going on and not up to us to claim that you’re cheating and whine until you get banned.

By the way, I hear it’s trivial to “cheat” on the anti-cheating test by simply typing very fast with little regard for accuracy since it doesn’t demand very good accuracy. I haven’t seen it in a while though.

David,
Thanks brother… I am soon planning to move above in the TOP 20 LIST..

I am so fast 😀 (fastestypist)

And by the way David.. My username which you typed (fastesttypist) is something like this —-> “fastestypist”

I am so fast 😀 (fastestypist)

dear drexel and phillies_magic
This is my private race track :
http://play.typeracer.com/?rt=trfastestypist

I am so fast 😀 (fastestypist)

My desktop computer more or less died a day before I left for Austin, where I won the Ultimate Typing Championship this weekend. While in Austin, I used a laptop keyboard, and I used this same laptop keyboard when I got home because my desktop was not working. That is why I only got 117 wpm on one of the races the other day; on my desktop, I very, very rarely am that slow. I realized I could connect my desktop keyboard to my laptop today, and if I compete in TypeRacer races in the next few days, I should be faster as a result.

Congratulations on winning Sean! Your opponent had no chance! People should lower the suspesion that i am so fast is a cheater

I wish to be in the top 20 one day…hopefully before age 21. Once again i am 10 and type 70wpm wooooo!!!!!!!!!

forget typeracer. He doesnt reply now and HE NEVER WILL!!!!!!!!!

Now do you believe me Zoran, or you want one more chance to prove that I am a cheater…
Skill works… not the controversy..
Do you still think that I Am a cheater?

I am so fast 😀 (fastestypist)

thank you. and im on go to eric’s track until mine is ready.

im online peoples! go to eric’s track

Hey all of you! I’ll be in my track at INSTANT DEATH MODE! at http://play.typeracer.com/?rt=trandy569&universe=accuracy I’d really like to test it out with some of my buddies here on typeracer!

where are you from andy, you said it is only 7:40 where your from?

Typeracer I just typed 114wpm, in the test box there was NO TEXT yet timer was counting down. Another bug sorry.

What happened mallika you are afraid??? Come on baby, you cannot win with me…. Come on Mallika race with me

hey guys wats up

Wow typeracer is amazing! I got 76 wpm average and 90 best wpm when I played this app. for 1st time. Is This good enough?