It wasn't that I had anything against the movies, but they had never been very important to me, and not once in more than fifteen years of teaching and writing had I felt the urge to talk about them. I liked them as everyone else did - as diversions, as animated wallpaper, as fluff. No matter how beautiful or hypnotic the images sometimes were, they never satisfied me as powerfully as words did. Too much was given, I felt, not enough was left to the viewer's imagination, and the paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us.
—from The Book of Illusions, a book by Paul Auster
Active since September 12, 2019.
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Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
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3717. | Saulius (zemfry) | 95.13 | 97% | 2022-03-03 |
3718. | 🐢🐢🐢🐢 (amogh1420) | 95.13 | 98% | 2021-01-18 |
3719. | player (writer35) | 95.12 | 95% | 2022-08-26 |
3720. | josh (qicksilver) | 95.10 | 97% | 2021-03-16 |
3721. | Grim (grim_reaper191713) | 95.09 | 97% | 2023-01-24 |
3722. | Ur (usus) | 95.09 | 98% | 2021-02-11 |
3723. | Ethan (ethanchansk) | 95.08 | 96.7% | 2023-11-29 |
3724. | marmarmar123 (marmarmar123) | 95.07 | 98.2% | 2023-10-02 |
3725. | ⚡Laxus⚡ (laxusdreyarv) | 95.07 | 98% | 2021-07-27 |
3726. | george (doctoras) | 95.07 | 98% | 2021-01-02 |
3727. | Theodore (boss_baby_2) | 95.06 | 99% | 2023-05-25 |
3728. | Dylan (slumpgod) | 95.06 | 97% | 2020-07-22 |
3729. | Tom Marvolo Riddle (sugar_k... | 95.05 | 96% | 2022-12-05 |
3730. | Cheuk (cheuk2160) | 95.05 | 97.1% | 2023-10-06 |
3731. | Sarves (xmemestar420) | 95.05 | 96% | 2023-09-18 |
3732. | Pepe (pepeworm) | 95.04 | 96% | 2020-10-20 |
3733. | David (the_pursuit) | 95.03 | 95.3% | 2021-02-04 |
3734. | qwertyuiop (k3ack3r) | 95.03 | 97% | 2023-07-15 |
3735. | JanBa (pythonbyte) | 95.02 | 96% | 2023-08-29 |
3736. | Ink (lordcubes) | 95.01 | 97% | 2021-09-11 |
3737. | Ahnaf Shahriar (asifthegreat) | 95.01 | 98% | 2023-09-06 |
3738. | Mark (markadsp) | 95.01 | 99% | 2022-05-01 |
3739. | k (mc0sta) | 95.01 | 98% | 2023-04-09 |
3740. | Blane (bparker) | 95.00 | 98% | 2019-10-07 |
3741. | Jayden (jaydenvii) | 94.99 | 98% | 2023-09-14 |
3742. | James (anhotep) | 94.98 | 98% | 2022-02-09 |
3743. | thatBeatsguy (thatbeatsguy) | 94.98 | 97% | 2021-08-17 |
3744. | Albert (levan24) | 94.97 | 97% | 2022-07-21 |
3745. | JayDee (jamiedee) | 94.95 | 97% | 2024-01-17 |
3746. | Mil (mil1534) | 94.95 | 97% | 2020-08-03 |
Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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Default (English) | 12,273 | 100.28 | September 12, 2019 |
Instant Death Mode | 3 | 112.93 | June 27, 2021 |
ᗜ Stenography | 1 | 134.81 | August 13, 2021 |
All TypeRacer Texts | 1 | 103.17 | May 27, 2022 |