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. |
#4240007 |
Another difference between main and secondary memory is that main memory is usually volatile and secondary is usually nonvolatile. Volatile means that information is deleted when the power is turned off whereas in the case of nonvolatile the information remains. |
262 |
1 |
1.212 |
86.90 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
86.90 |
86.90 |
April 15, 2019 |
| 2. |
#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 |
1 |
1.099 |
78.80 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
78.80 |
78.80 |
April 11, 2019 |
| 3. |
#4240034 |
Another method hackers can use to cause havoc to a website is by using a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). In this method, hackers flood a site with fake requests making all of the site's resources unavailable for legitimate users. |
242 |
2 |
1.072 |
76.88 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
73.12 |
73.12 |
April 17, 2019 |
| 4. |
#4240008 |
The number system we use daily is called base 10 or decimal and it uses 10 numbers ranging from zero to nine. In base 2 or binary there are only two numbers used, zero and one. Each number in binary is called a bit. |
215 |
1 |
1.060 |
76.06 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
76.06 |
76.06 |
April 15, 2019 |
| 5. |
#4240019 |
The rules that computers use to communicate over networks are called protocols. The one the Internet uses is aptly named Internet Protocol (IP), which works closely with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). |
206 |
1 |
1.036 |
74.33 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
74.33 |
74.33 |
April 17, 2019 |
| 6. |
#4240011 |
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Since computes can only understand numbers, letters and symbols must be converted into numbers. |
164 |
1 |
1.001 |
71.76 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
71.76 |
71.76 |
April 17, 2019 |
| 7. |
#4240015 |
The "data about the data" is known as metadata and even though the Greek prefix means "after" is usually comes at the very beginning of the file. |
145 |
1 |
0.912 |
65.38 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
65.38 |
65.38 |
April 17, 2019 |
| 8. |
#4240021 |
Four billion IP addresses seemed like more than enough back in the early 1980's when IPv4 was created, but with so many people on the Internet using multiple devices today, they have run out. In the late 1990's the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) came up with an addressing system that used 128-bits called IPv6. This gives 3.4e38 possibilities. |
352 |
1 |
0.830 |
59.53 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
59.53 |
59.53 |
April 17, 2019 |
| 9. |
#4240010 |
Hexadecimal (also known as base 16) is a common number system in computer science. Since there are only 10 single digits (0-9), the first six letters are also used (a-f). |
170 |
1 |
0.813 |
58.28 — Brian (basis_bradley) |
58.28 |
58.28 |
April 12, 2019 |