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
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| Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129. | (playslowaverage) | 156.32 | 99% | 2023-06-24 |
| 130. | (skanide) | 156.07 | 99% | 2024-01-09 |
| 131. | (330am) | 156.03 | 99% | 2024-07-29 |
| 132. | (vdud3) | 155.87 | 99% | 2022-07-24 |
| 133. | (tir4misu) | 155.72 | 98% | 2025-05-23 |
| 134. | (lhykv) | 155.60 | 99% | 2020-11-14 |
| 135. | canary in a colemak (canari... | 155.52 | 97% | 2025-08-01 |
| 136. | (neo_gizmo_colemak) | 155.49 | 99% | 2025-09-28 |
| 137. | (egyprince20) | 155.44 | 99% | 2023-02-01 |
| 138. | i talk to the wind (pastash... | 155.41 | 98.6% | 2024-11-29 |
| 139. | jivanf (jivan108) | 155.29 | 98.4% | 2023-11-26 |
| 140. | (ashesze) | 155.26 | 98% | 2025-05-08 |
| 141. | (staticnine) | 155.25 | 100% | 2020-04-16 |
| 142. | (afz_non_quit) | 155.23 | 98% | 2020-12-16 |
| 143. | phlofy (phlofy) | 154.85 | 98% | 2025-08-07 |
| 144. | i was wrong (firewolfrain) | 154.81 | 98% | 2020-04-10 |
| 145. | (vixt) | 154.62 | 99% | 2023-03-03 |
| 146. | neogeosg (robloxplayer71499) | 154.23 | 99% | 2022-12-22 |
| 147. | Haru (harunonquit) | 154.21 | 97% | 2022-06-19 |
| 148. | Joshua (joshuawn) | 154.17 | 99% | 2022-01-07 |
| 149. | (linuxman_linux) | 154.07 | 99% | 2021-01-07 |
| 150. | Omori (sunnyomori) | 154.00 | 98% | 2022-07-04 |
| 151. | (boy_314) | 153.91 | 99% | 2022-12-24 |
| 152. | DrLawL (drlawc2) | 153.71 | 98% | 2023-05-01 |
| 153. | (paradoxpigeon) | 153.44 | 98% | 2022-03-06 |
| 154. | Leet (leetzero) | 153.37 | 99% | 2023-04-29 |
| 155. | ⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... | 153.28 | 99% | 2020-06-02 |
| 156. | (neimad7) | 153.05 | 99.2% | 2024-07-24 |
| 157. | pumpkinsoup1 (pumpkinsoup1) | 153.04 | 99% | 2023-03-14 |
| 158. | (daniel598) | 153.04 | 99% | 2021-12-10 |
| Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default (English) | 15,716 | 100.40 | September 12, 2019 |
| Instant Death Mode | 4 | 122.99 | June 27, 2021 |
| ᗜ Stenography | 3 | 101.48 | August 13, 2021 |
| All TypeRacer Texts | 1 | 103.17 | May 27, 2022 |