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Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight lifts. They stay below ground for months at a time, armed with pistols and homemade grenades, chiseling out ore and then grinding it and extracting the gold using mercury, just as poor gold miners do at the surface.

—from Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff, a book by Fred Pearce

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Rank Username WPM Accuracy Date
14446. Carter (mburchell) 87.31 96% 2023-12-20
14447. sadwipe (sadwipe) 87.31 96.5% 2023-11-13
14448. danny (stewyvirus) 87.31 97% 2023-04-12
14449. kchou (kchou0907) 87.30 98% 2021-10-25
14450. Abzal (abzal_myrzash) 87.30 97% 2023-06-27
14451. logan (logan11212112121) 87.30 95.6% 2021-02-18
14452. Auslady (auslady) 87.30 99% 2014-03-07
14453. Michael (bigb0ss) 87.29 95% 2017-05-07
14454. David (favidavid) 87.29 96% 2017-05-02
14455. Henriko (zayde) 87.29 94% 2015-01-28
14456. Bevo (bevo) 87.29 96% 2014-05-24
14457. burnotce23 (burnotice23) 87.29 98% 2012-03-13
14458. ItzGauche (itzgauche) 87.28 97% 2024-03-15
14459. Neil (100wpmin1monthez) 87.28 98% 2022-08-01
14460. Suraj Gurung (samiraz) 87.28 98.3% 2023-11-20
14461. Breyton (breytonioso) 87.28 94% 2016-02-08
14462. levi (leviathan_307) 87.27 97% 2024-01-24
14463. Tanmay (tanmaypawar90) 87.27 99% 2021-04-16
14464. yesman (yesman9527) 87.27 99% 2021-09-08
14465. Tristan (beckonez) 87.27 95% 2021-05-20
14466. Lonar (wily2005) 87.27 100% 2012-08-04
14467. moncojhr (moncojhr) 87.27 2010-12-26
14468. Spy (lightningspy) 87.27 2011-01-30
14469. Desi (_aka5h) 87.26 98% 2023-01-04
14470. romeb69476@mliok.com (romeb... 87.26 98% 2023-08-06
14471. Donavan (gurstinger) 87.26 97.2% 2021-02-03
14472. darkestrevolt (darkestrevolt) 87.26 97% 2022-09-15
14473. hello (askmeaquestion) 87.26 95% 2015-03-27
14474. Megan (megceratops) 87.25 97% 2024-01-11
14475. Timothy (timaloy) 87.25 93% 2014-12-15

Universes

Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 113,259 79.84 May 21, 2010
Instant Death Mode 174 74.65 May 28, 2010
Riverside Middle School 12 46.12 February 3, 2011
Easy Texts 9 86.62 September 5, 2010
TypeRacer Classic 5 71.88 May 27, 2021
##typeracer 4 86.40 January 24, 2021
Mrs. Wunschel's TypeRacer Universe 2 55.41 January 18, 2013