Below you will find a set of texts used on TypeRacer. Certain texts only appear on certain difficulties.
| Rank |
ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
Top Score |
Top 100 |
Average |
Active Since |
| 1. |
#0 |
This is a placeholder text. You are seeing it because there are no other texts available for your skill level. Please tell your system administrator to add some texts! |
167 |
9 |
1.399 |
104.88 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
85.32 |
85.32 |
March 8, 2018 |
| 2. |
#4020004 |
The core of a computer consists of the CPU and the main memory. Together these things do all the "heavy lifting" in the computer. Everything that happens on the computer goes through the core. |
192 |
3 |
1.096 |
82.17 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
79.82 |
79.82 |
March 8, 2018 |
| 3. |
#4020026 |
The speed of a computer is usually measured by the number of basic operations, such as additions, that can be performed in one second. The fastest computers available in the early 1940s could perform about five operations per second. The fastest today can perform about a trillion. Buyers of personal computers know that a machine that seems fast today will seem slow in a year or two. |
385 |
1 |
1.088 |
81.56 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
81.56 |
81.56 |
April 17, 2018 |
| 4. |
#4020002 |
All other programs on the computer would be considered applications. This includes word processors, photo editing software, web browsers, games, music programs, pretty much everything else on your computer except for saved files. A few popular applications include Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes, Google Chrome, and Minecraft. |
360 |
4 |
1.086 |
81.42 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
73.20 |
73.20 |
March 8, 2018 |
| 5. |
#354 |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. |
212 |
1 |
1.053 |
78.97 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
78.97 |
78.97 |
March 3, 2018 |
| 6. |
#4020031 |
A computer network is a group of computers that are connected so they can share resources using a data link, usually a cable or wirelessly. These networks could be a set of 20 school computers, a large business with thousands of computers that are all sharing files, or even a family with 3 computers all connecting to the same media server in their house. |
356 |
1 |
1.050 |
78.72 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
78.72 |
78.72 |
August 9, 2018 |
| 7. |
#4020023 |
Your computer successfully creates the illusion that it contains photographs, letters, songs, and movies. All it really contains is bits, lots of them, patterned in ways you can't see. Your computer was designed to store just bits-all the files and folders and different kinds of data are illusions created by computer programmers. |
331 |
3 |
1.002 |
75.11 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
72.08 |
72.08 |
March 14, 2018 |
| 8. |
#4020009 |
Another difference between main and secondary memory is that main memory is usually volatile and secondary is usually nonvolatile. This difference refers to the stored information and the power supply. Volatile means that information is deleted when the power is turned off whereas in the case of nonvolatile the information remains. For example, when a computer is shut down, all the main memory is wiped clean, but thankfully the secondary memory will remain as is! |
467 |
1 |
0.991 |
74.29 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
74.29 |
74.29 |
March 8, 2018 |
| 9. |
#4020024 |
To err is human. When books were laboriously transcribed by hand, in ancient scriptoria and medieval monasteries, errors crept in with every copy. Computers and networks work differently. Every copy is perfect. If you email a photograph to a friend, the friend won't receive a fuzzier version of the original. The copy will be identical, down to the level of detail too small for the eye to see. |
395 |
2 |
0.977 |
73.28 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
70.18 |
70.18 |
March 14, 2018 |
| 10. |
#4020020 |
The world changed very suddenly. Almost everything is stored in a computer. Court records, grocery purchases, precious family photos, pointless radio programs... Computers contain a lot of stuff that isn't useful today but somebody thinks might someday com in handy. It is all being reduced to zeroes and ones-"bits." The bits are stashed on disks of home computers and in the data centers of big corporations and government agencies. The disks can hold so many bits that there is no need to pick and choose what gets remembered. |
529 |
1 |
0.950 |
71.23 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
71.23 |
71.23 |
April 11, 2018 |
| 11. |
#4020007 |
The secondary memory is all other memory outside of the main memory that the computer accesses. Secondary memory is used for long term storage and gets physically changed when files are saved or deleted. Because of this change it is slower than main memory (although still very fast). The secondary memory is much larger than the main memory and usually only gets changed when a user changes the information, such as saving or deleting. Common secondary memory devices are the hard drive, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, USB storage devices, and flash drives. These things hold the software (OS and Apps) that the main memory will access. |
629 |
1 |
0.946 |
70.91 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
70.91 |
70.91 |
April 23, 2018 |
| 12. |
#4020030 |
There are three ways websites know who you are: You tell them by logging in. They've left cookies on one of your previous visits (a cookie is a small text file stored on your local hard drive that contains information that a particular web site wants to have available during your current session or from one session to the next). They have your IP address (Your IP address is a number like 66.82.9.88 that locates your computer in the Internet). |
446 |
1 |
0.911 |
68.28 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
68.28 |
68.28 |
April 11, 2018 |
| 13. |
#4020016 |
Other times [when compressing data] it is important to get the exact solution, meaning that when a file is uncompressed, it need to have all the original information that it had before it was compressed. When compressing text files or emails, it is important to maintain all the original information; otherwise, certain letter or words might be missing. This kind of compression is known is known as lossless compression, it does not lose any data during compression. |
467 |
1 |
0.890 |
66.70 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
66.70 |
66.70 |
March 8, 2018 |
| 14. |
#4020001 |
The operating system is the visual representation of the computer. The OS includes the desktop, start menu, icons, file view, etc. Again, the software is just a series of ones and zeros that cannot be understood by a human (there are usually billions of them at a time), so the operation systems help make those ones and zeros easy to read and understand. Some popular operating systems include Windows 10, MacOS Sierra, and Linux. |
431 |
3 |
0.883 |
66.23 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
61.07 |
61.07 |
March 3, 2018 |
| 15. |
#1971759 |
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Gandhi |
84 |
1 |
0.882 |
66.13 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
66.13 |
66.13 |
March 3, 2018 |
| 16. |
#4020005 |
The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the part that carries out every command or process on the computer. It can be thought of as the brain of the computer and is extremely fast (usually measured in gigahertz or billions of processes a second). By the time information gets to the CPU it is broken down to all ones and zeros. One of the reasons it can process so many commands is because it only needs to recognize those two numbers. |
432 |
1 |
0.873 |
65.45 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
65.45 |
65.45 |
July 30, 2018 |
| 17. |
#4020035 |
The Internet is commonly referred to as the World Wide Web or simply the web. Although the web is part of the Internet, they are not the same thing. The Internet has many services using separate protocols, the web is just one of them. Other services/protocols include e-mail (Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP and Post Office Protocol or POP), Internet telephony (Voice over Internet or VoIP), and file transfer (FTP). The web displays websites on web browsers and uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) that has extra security like SSL/TLS. |
588 |
1 |
0.833 |
62.46 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
62.46 |
62.46 |
March 26, 2019 |