It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial atmosphere for the right sort of unruliness - that it is a home not just for the smart, but for the smart-alecks. And hackers are invariably smart-alecks. If we had a national holiday, it would be April 1st.
—from Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, a book by Paul Graham
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| Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26665. | Luke (lhauflin) | 60.75 | 95% | 2013-02-07 |
| 26666. | Doofy (bwarkee) | 60.75 | 100% | 2013-06-15 |
| 26667. | Derek (pieeater289) | 60.74 | — | 2009-10-31 |
| 26668. | type_shark (evil_retype) | 60.74 | 93.7% | 2023-09-13 |
| 26669. | infinite (infinite_wotah) | 60.74 | 97% | 2021-10-30 |
| 26670. | Rahul (gautamrahul) | 60.74 | 92% | 2012-08-16 |
| 26671. | steven anderson (thewolf17__) | 60.73 | 96% | 2023-06-28 |
| 26672. | Văn (pqvan20) | 60.73 | 97% | 2021-09-25 |
| 26673. | Cloud (cranston) | 60.73 | 95% | 2021-01-15 |
| 26674. | taseh (taseh) | 60.73 | 95% | 2020-11-16 |
| 26675. | David (felanee) | 60.73 | 92% | 2014-04-22 |
| 26676. | ekaray (ekaray) | 60.73 | 95% | 2019-04-21 |
| 26677. | Pamela (pamela) | 60.73 | — | 2008-11-06 |
| 26678. | Owen (randname1) | 60.73 | 93% | 2016-06-12 |
| 26679. | Gail (jade2) | 60.73 | — | 2010-12-14 |
| 26680. | iGlitch (31501508) | 60.73 | 98% | 2018-03-16 |
| 26681. | Connor (yahoofanboy) | 60.72 | 94% | 2023-01-24 |
| 26682. | Mochi (mochisun) | 60.72 | 97% | 2022-08-22 |
| 26683. | Ujwal (flawed_gamer) | 60.72 | 95% | 2021-03-05 |
| 26684. | lilinfang (hk_l) | 60.72 | 96% | 2021-02-08 |
| 26685. | Dan Jayson (danjayson) | 60.72 | 94% | 2020-01-06 |
| 26686. | NinerSechs (neunsechszwei) | 60.72 | 91% | 2014-02-07 |
| 26687. | liz (geoday) | 60.72 | — | 2010-07-06 |
| 26688. | Clumsy (dumpling) | 60.72 | — | 2010-02-16 |
| 26689. | colemak_girl (icanntspel) | 60.71 | 95% | 2020-08-12 |
| 26690. | Mukund (mukund420) | 60.71 | 94% | 2016-01-20 |
| 26691. | Vivek (v234singh) | 60.71 | 92% | 2011-09-09 |
| 26692. | zhuzewei (zhuzewei) | 60.71 | 93% | 2015-12-10 |
| 26693. | ✈FollowMe✈ (shamshadtahir) | 60.71 | — | 2011-04-11 |
| 26694. | Brendan (barefootcatfish) | 60.70 | 86% | 2016-03-23 |
| Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default (English) | 116,426 | 71.57 | August 3, 2008 |
| Instant Death Mode | 229 | 70.03 | April 1, 2010 |
| Riverside Middle School | 19 | 33.91 | January 24, 2011 |
| ##typeracer | 4 | 82.66 | February 14, 2021 |
| TypeRacer Classic | 2 | 54.09 | June 1, 2021 |
| All TypeRacer Texts | 1 | 38.66 | June 12, 2021 |