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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966. | Brodo (tchoe87) | 112.17 | 98% | 2020-10-19 |
| 1967. | bro called saul (bigswagllord) | 112.17 | 99% | 2023-03-16 |
| 1968. | harry (harrysz) | 112.16 | 98.5% | 2024-08-27 |
| 1969. | David (dcohen91) | 112.16 | 98% | 2025-07-21 |
| 1970. | Sabari (sabari314) | 112.13 | 98.1% | 2025-03-17 |
| 1971. | Ian (cacapizon) | 112.13 | 97% | 2023-10-31 |
| 1972. | Speedy (flux2k) | 112.10 | 97% | 2021-02-09 |
| 1973. | Pratik (dudepc) | 112.10 | 98.4% | 2024-02-21 |
| 1974. | Nguyen Truong (racing_typer... | 112.07 | 97.8% | 2024-01-18 |
| 1975. | Dan (danbanica) | 112.06 | 97% | 2025-07-20 |
| 1976. | Bryon (btjanaka) | 112.06 | 98% | 2022-04-06 |
| 1977. | Lost (lostelo) | 112.06 | 98% | 2025-06-20 |
| 1978. | Ankush (ankush12345) | 112.06 | 98% | 2022-06-07 |
| 1979. | Sam (mayorenderman) | 112.04 | 98.4% | 2025-05-12 |
| 1980. | Danny (battny) | 112.03 | 97.9% | 2024-10-25 |
| 1981. | Turning 14 in 2 Weeks! (spe... | 112.03 | 96.1% | 2023-12-14 |
| 1982. | Taylor (zottay) | 112.00 | 97% | 2023-02-25 |
| 1983. | DustySheep (smowbog) | 112.00 | 99% | 2022-09-13 |
| 1984. | NON-STOP (paktypest) | 112.00 | 96.8% | 2021-01-30 |
| 1985. | random (orangejuice123) | 111.96 | 99% | 2025-02-12 |
| 1986. | Am1n (vividus) | 111.94 | 98.1% | 2024-05-30 |
| 1987. | dude (udead1) | 111.94 | 98% | 2022-01-13 |
| 1988. | Owen (owenc1272) | 111.93 | 97.9% | 2023-09-26 |
| 1989. | Clown (clownoce) | 111.91 | 98% | 2025-11-25 |
| 1990. | SLSL (slslz) | 111.90 | 98% | 2023-07-17 |
| 1991. | BaconFarmer420 (baconfarmer... | 111.88 | 97.6% | 2023-08-03 |
| 1992. | isaac (iguak412) | 111.88 | 97% | 2021-09-15 |
| 1993. | armenn (armenn) | 111.88 | 97% | 2019-12-13 |
| 1994. | Gerard (gerdperez) | 111.87 | 99% | 2025-04-03 |
| 1995. | mechanical (cakesogood) | 111.87 | 99% | 2020-03-19 |
| 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 |