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Many introverted hackers who are next to inarticulate in person communicate with considerable fluency over the net, perhaps precisely because they can forget on an unconscious level that they are dealing with people and thus don't feel as stressed and anxious as they would face-to-face.

—from The Jargon File, a book by Eric S. Raymond

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Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 44,677 81.07 August 31, 2016
Instant Death Mode 54 91.55 December 21, 2018
ᗜ Stenography 4 109.31 April 19, 2021
New English Texts 1 109.71 June 4, 2022