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I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 I'm pleased to report that we have just deployed a new version of typeracer.com. The most prominent new feature that we added was the ability to view detailed race info in your race history ("My Scores" section). If you click on one of the race numbers, you will be able to see the full text that you typed in that race, along with other details. This is a feature that many of you have been requesting, and I'm happy to say that we finally got around to making it happen! We hope that you will find this new information useful. Reading this old Reddit thread, and seeing the following comment, got me thinking. maelfyn -2 points 8 years ago Game needs more quote variety. I think I was typing about ten different quotes. Averaged about 98 wpm After reading this, I realized that an announcement about our progress on adding new, richer texts is long overdue. So, without further ado. . . Typeracer Texts Quotes – 2017 New Years Status Update We're starting to build up a regular cadence for adding new quotes. As of January 14 2017, we are at 2,058 quotes in the main universe, play.typeracer.com ! Of those, a total of ~1,500 new quotes have been added since Sep. 2016. Typeracer's quote environment is the broadest, and freshest, it's ever been. If you've been racing much recently, you'll have noticed the new quotes. Our newest batch has includes a selection of user submissions; as a reminder, you can always submit your favorite quotes using the "Contribute" link at the bottom of TypeRacer . (We will review it only if the submission is complete.) Thanks to everyone who has been submitting! Everyone has a part in defining what Typeracer becomes by submitting their favorite quotes, so if you have any ideas, be sure to submit them. We also added both quotes from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's books (we kept it to 2 quotes per candidate!). I hope you enjoy all of these new quotes as much as I have. For me it's been a learning experience being exposed to many of these classic works for the first time during a race. Does exposure to texts through a typing game translate into any kind of comprehension, spark any interest, or create any other value? I'll leave that to the community to decide, but I'm optimistic, and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say. On the competitive side of things, the freshness of quotes has made the high scores on individual texts more accessible than they've been in years. Typeracer's fastest typists haven't been able to race on many of the new quotes, and some quotes have barely been raced at all. It's fun to be among the first people to type a new quote, and as an added bonus, anyone who completes these quotes is bound to get on the high scores list for that quote. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! There are a lot of folks we need to thank for their contributions in helping us passing the 2,000 mark – you know who you are and thank you for everything. In particular, I'd like to thank Sean Wrona (arenasnow) who has given us much inspiration in terms of our vision for our texts. Quick Tip – "Texts completed" As a quick tip, you can track your progress in the quotes (i.e., how many of Typeracer's total quotes you've completed at least 1 race on) with the "texts" metric on www.typeracerdata.com leaders. It's a fun way to track your progress, and you'll know that as long as you're racing, you're making progress. Interested in helping out? Anyone interested in helping us add more texts to Typeracer (selecting sources, entering texts into the system, reviewing texts, etc.) Hope you enjoy the new texts, and know that we have a lot more coming in 2017. Let us know what kinds of quotes you want. Leave a comment on the blog, or stop by to discuss with us in the unofficial Typeracer Discord channel. Happy New Year Hi All – Happy belated New Year! On behalf of Typeracer I'd like to introduce our first (but hopefully not last) guest author on this blog. Noah (licahfox) is an old-timer on the site, and truly a top-rate typist. Back in Aug. 2008, the first month that Typeracer supported user accounts, and thus the beginning of all our data, Noah was the #1 typist, with an average of 160 wpm during that month. He also had the highest single score (213 wpm), a huge 50-60wpm higher than his next competitor. I recall being one of the best racers myself (my 128 wpm average put me in 6th place in this timeframe, and I was the second most winning typist (982 wins) — second only to Bob Bongloaded (bob_bongloaded), who had an impressive 2,000+ wins! Noah was always able to beat me, but at least with his being a professional organist, I was okay with that! In any case, later in the post we're going to introduce a new exciting feature. The dedication of Typeracer's fan base over the years has been inspiring to me, and the fact that we have a chance to collaborate with an old Typeracer fan who's been playing since the beginning is completely yuge, and we're happy to be working with Noah to introduce this new feature. Let's consider it Noah's "Christmas present" to the Typeracer community – a engineering marvel for armchair software engineer Noah "Licahfox", pulled off in all the spare time that he most certainly does not have. It any case, since this "Christmas Present", a new Typeracer contest format, is based on the Typeracerdata.com platform, we thought we'd announce Noah's main TRData website here on our blog at the same time. What is Typeracer Data? Typeracerdata.com: It's an awesome website for Typeracer fans and racers trying to track their progress. It's also motivating, with statistics like "text bests" (the average of a user's best race on each text). For me personally, this lets me view every race as an opportunity to beat my record on the individual text–regardless of how hard or easy it is–and effortlessly track my progress. This might help keep Typeracer fresh for some people. The rankings on the site are unofficial, since the database is incomplete by nature, but at least for the fastest typists, the data is largely complete and should be pretty accurate. And, the more the site is used, the more complete the data becomes! The competition on Typeracer is heating up One last thing I want to call-out before I turn you over to Noah is that I'm truly impressed with how the competitive environment on Typeracer has blossomed over the past 8 years. Noah had the fastest average in Aug. 2008 but is now 59! We now have racers such as "Typeracer Domination" Award-Winner Izzy (blade5468), Typeracer Hall-of-Fame 2016 nominee Fyda, Romanian typing legend Andrei "Why didn't anyone nominate me?" Cristescu (kakarotto), upcoming Sean-Wrona-challenger Shazzy (treiderik) are setting a very high bar, and it's been a lot of fun racing with you guys in 2016 |
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