In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
—from Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a book by Douglas Hofstadter
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| Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997. | Nigerian (poobear_) | 85.97 | 97% | 2018-12-03 |
| 1998. | TacoWaco (mrspork) | 85.97 | 97% | 2020-01-10 |
| 1999. | A (achongl) | 85.97 | 95% | 2019-05-13 |
| 2000. | Alex (eggstreme) | 85.96 | 97% | 2017-12-10 |
| 2001. | Galatia (xisnyang) | 85.93 | 96% | 2019-12-29 |
| 2002. | sfg (nigh) | 85.90 | 98% | 2018-05-25 |
| 2003. | 德古斯 (papaco) | 85.89 | 97% | 2018-01-09 |
| 2004. | Nichole (nboise) | 85.88 | 99% | 2020-07-09 |
| 2005. | joe (jwvv77) | 85.88 | 96% | 2018-06-07 |
| 2006. | tacoadolescent (tacoadolesc... | 85.86 | 96% | 2020-06-24 |
| 2007. | benben (20iq) | 85.85 | 97% | 2019-06-12 |
| 2008. | Ivan (seedeath) | 85.85 | 96% | 2020-09-04 |
| 2009. | Snader (mrsander) | 85.82 | 94% | 2020-10-13 |
| 2010. | Emmanuel (esamics) | 85.81 | 98% | 2019-06-17 |
| 2011. | LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... | 85.80 | 95% | 2020-07-19 |
| 2012. | Stewart Stewart (stewsquared) | 85.78 | 97% | 2019-01-10 |
| 2013. | Celeste (aeyu) | 85.75 | 97% | 2020-05-30 |
| 2014. | Kevin (kjax) | 85.75 | 97% | 2020-09-09 |
| 2015. | Aproop (aproop) | 85.75 | 96% | 2020-03-31 |
| 2016. | Ethan (ethan568) | 85.74 | 99% | 2017-11-09 |
| 2017. | Rae (raedog) | 85.71 | 96% | 2018-04-16 |
| 2018. | Fried (frieddust) | 85.71 | 96% | 2017-11-03 |
| 2019. | tstats[ilaghardcore] (ilagh... | 85.70 | 95% | 2019-08-06 |
| 2020. | yoname (yoname) | 85.70 | 99% | 2018-06-04 |
| 2021. | Mustafa (mustafakhan205) | 85.69 | 98% | 2019-09-20 |
| 2022. | WayTooMuch37 (waytoomuch37) | 85.69 | 96% | 2020-10-23 |
| 2023. | Timmy (chet09) | 85.67 | 98% | 2020-11-14 |
| 2024. | Travisd32 (travisd32) | 85.65 | 98% | 2019-10-28 |
| 2025. | Shawn (wangsl23) | 85.65 | 98% | 2019-04-24 |
| 2026. | how? (haotingz) | 85.64 | 98% | 2019-01-14 |
| Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default (English) | 7,825 | 84.36 | July 25, 2017 |
| ᗜ Stenography | 6 | 71.93 | September 21, 2021 |
| Instant Death Mode | 3 | 99.09 | January 2, 2020 |
| Sean Wrona's Universe | 3 | 137.80 | March 28, 2017 |