Text #142

It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial atmosphere for the right sort of unruliness - that it is a home not just for the smart, but for the smart-alecks. And hackers are invariably smart-alecks. If we had a national holiday, it would be April 1st.

—from Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, a book by Paul Graham

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Rank Username WPM Accuracy Date
1. (joshua728) 219.14 100% 2024-04-02
2. Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 200.07 100% 2019-05-25
3. Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) 192.42 99% 2017-07-23
4. realboot (sahibprime) 188.97 99.3% 2023-08-02
5. (alpha_panda) 188.86 100% 2020-02-29
6. why this site keeps freezin... 188.44 100% 2022-08-22
7. $950 kevin rudd pay packet ... 187.28 100% 2021-10-10
8. 🌹 Black Rose 🌹 (rosew... 185.19 100% 2020-02-04
9. fish and chips (heavenseer) 182.74 100% 2021-10-21
10. chillin (slekap) 179.72 99% 2021-03-12
11. discord.gg/typeracer (landa... 178.87 99% 2020-09-29
12. locked in (g1_petroleum) 177.53 99.6% 2024-07-05
13. xKµkKain- (tsvukk) 175.09 100% 2014-11-04
14. nobody (notanytypist) 174.43 100% 2023-06-26
15. kiregaki (kiregakii) 174.28 97% 2022-08-29
16. ANDREA (andreaak00) 173.83 99% 2022-09-05
17. Xeogran (xeogran) 173.44 100% 2020-01-03
18. Jammie (nonquit) (typos_zzz) 171.79 98.7% 2023-10-10
19. whomsts mans (afterbreakonly) 171.47 100% 2019-05-24
20. lavé (traben) 171.41 99.6% 2023-10-06
21. youtube.com/draggggggggg (g... 171.27 100% 2014-06-22
22. r (deroche1) 171.12 99% 2019-02-10
23. PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) 171.02 98% 2013-07-30
24. Noah (licahfox) 170.95 — 2009-03-29
25. Kathy (florentine) 170.53 95% 2017-05-10
26. (fenno4) 170.35 99% 2023-09-16
27. (keegant) 170.06 99% 2021-06-13
28. B4CK (ayeyuhskuh) 169.51 99.6% 2025-04-13
29. Fyda (fyda) 169.09 96% 2013-09-19
30. Vielle (arc_sec) 168.96 98% 2019-04-19

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Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 116,426 71.57 August 3, 2008
Instant Death Mode 229 70.03 April 1, 2010
Riverside Middle School 19 33.91 January 24, 2011
##typeracer 4 82.66 February 14, 2021
TypeRacer Classic 2 54.09 June 1, 2021
All TypeRacer Texts 1 38.66 June 12, 2021