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. | Emilee (ecoleman) | 66.58 | — | 2011-04-12 |
| 2. | Russell (rjakay) | 43.56 | — | 2011-01-27 |
| 3. | Kyra (kmartens) | 42.97 | — | 2011-01-27 |
| 4. | Brooke (balff) | 42.14 | — | 2011-02-03 |
| 5. | Kennedy (kalucas) | 39.98 | — | 2011-01-26 |
| 6. | Justine (jbrammer) | 39.37 | — | 2011-01-26 |
| 7. | Aaron (abeireis) | 39.01 | — | 2011-02-03 |
| 8. | Chris (cwilson) | 34.52 | — | 2011-02-08 |
| 9. | Chris (csgriger) | 31.96 | — | 2011-02-03 |
| 10. | Skylar (smchargue) | 31.55 | — | 2011-04-11 |
| 11. | Samantha (samgordon) | 31.40 | — | 2011-01-26 |
| 12. | Bradley (bmcginnis) | 29.90 | — | 2011-03-18 |
| 13. | Braeton (bcmoore) | 27.36 | — | 2011-04-11 |
| 14. | michael (medwards) | 26.81 | — | 2011-02-08 |
| 15. | Maddie (majbuckingham) | 25.70 | — | 2011-04-11 |
| 16. | Hannah (hhenderson) | 25.06 | — | 2011-01-26 |
| 17. | Hayley (hjhaines) | 24.18 | — | 2011-02-08 |
| 18. | Keeley (kswenson) | 23.92 | — | 2011-01-24 |
| 19. | Michael (mpracht) | 18.37 | 89% | 2011-05-12 |
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| Instant Death Mode | 229 | 70.03 | April 1, 2010 |
| Riverside Middle School | 19 | 33.91 | January 24, 2011 |
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| TypeRacer Classic | 2 | 54.09 | June 1, 2021 |
| All TypeRacer Texts | 1 | 38.66 | June 12, 2021 |