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Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the audience's patience developing a new setup. Once you've got the audience laughing or on a roll, it's better to stay with toppers - a series of punch lines, each related to the previous one.

—from Comedy Writing Secrets, a book by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz

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Leaders

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Rank Username WPM Accuracy Date
1. Rrraptor (megaextremist) 211.14 99% 2021-08-07
2. Jammie (typos_z) 210.14 99% 2023-04-25
3. Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 209.92 100% 2019-05-27
4. Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) 204.43 100% 2016-07-19
5. $950 kevin rudd pay packet ... 201.02 100% 2023-10-16
6. (joshua728) 200.44 98% 2021-03-11
7. Kathy (florentine) 196.84 100% 2017-04-19
8. (j89243fj29) 196.64 99% 2023-09-13
9. wrm (languidness) 194.98 97% 2015-07-04
10. Xeogran (xeogran) 191.35 100% 2021-05-28
11. locked in (g1_petroleum) 189.95 99.6% 2025-01-15
12. mako (mako640) 189.74 100% 2020-04-30
13. (flaneur) 189.03 99% 2023-03-21
14. Fyda (fyda) 188.04 98% 2013-08-26
15. Vielle (arc_sec) 187.95 99% 2021-09-16
16. (keegant) 186.16 99.2% 2024-06-16
17. paradoxical (chaoschild) 184.91 97.9% 2023-10-11
18. decompose (decompose) 183.66 99% 2021-06-17
19. (shazman) 183.07 99% 2020-08-09
20. Ibexus (ibexus) 183.00 100% 2022-05-12
21. Shoemaker-Levy 9 (atthetop) 182.94 100% 2023-01-05
22. xKµkKain- (tsvukk) 181.95 98% 2013-12-02
23. bubchi89 (bubchi89) 181.61 100% 2021-04-15
24. taran (slowaccount) 181.32 100% 2019-05-03
25. B4CK (ayeyuhskuh) 180.94 100% 2024-10-16
26. Kµkkain (tsvuk) 179.27 100% 2012-07-06
27. Rrraptor (lalabird8) 177.89 99% 2020-03-27
28. (mononym_jisoo) 177.25 100% 2022-10-17
29. Ｖｏｌｈｏｓｉｓ (v... 177.20 98.5% 2023-05-26
30. new account fenno4 (fennomak) 176.71 99% 2023-08-24

Universes

Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 124,976 75.66 September 30, 2008
Instant Death Mode 284 74.09 March 29, 2010
Riverside Middle School 34 42.77 January 24, 2011
Smoke Rise Prep 18 57.21 July 12, 2016
TypeRacer Classic 3 57.74 July 27, 2021
##typeracer 2 70.16 February 22, 2021
The Little Middle School 2 31.84 November 5, 2012