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But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

—from In Search of Lost Time, a book by Marcel Proust

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1. (joshua728) 253.75 100% 2024-04-09
2. rocket (mythicalrocket) 242.27 100% 2022-10-22
3. rrraptor (drybowser888) 234.63 99.3% 2025-03-09
4. (728joshua) 234.60 99.4% 2025-03-22
5. hi (helloimnotgood1) 232.37 99.3% 2025-03-29
6. Jammie (typos_z) 221.83 99% 2023-09-20
7. asdfasdfb (yuasd) 221.57 98% 2024-01-23
8. saerith (arabianghosthaunting) 220.30 100% 2022-01-14
9. Rrraptor (megaextremist) 218.58 100% 2022-01-04
10. Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 217.78 99% 2019-05-09
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12. איזי (iamtyperacer) 214.49 100% 2023-05-23
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19. (carlibou) 205.95 100% 2021-11-19
20. Vielle (arc_sec) 203.96 99% 2022-11-05
21. (alpha_panda) 202.93 100% 2020-01-17
22. eiko (eikomaniac) 202.68 99.7% 2024-09-09
23. (flaneur) 201.72 99% 2022-09-03
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Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 45,882 86.20 January 13, 2017
Instant Death Mode 95 89.34 October 8, 2017
ᗜ Stenography 6 114.85 September 21, 2021
New English Texts Are Here 2 132.70 December 30, 2019