Today we’re pleased to announce new site-wide records by Michael DeRoche (deroche1 – TRData) and ⦗𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐋⦘ ⦓☾✹✯𝚅𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎✯✹☽⦔ (Viellain – TRData).
Some of you will remember from this blog post in July that the all-time single race speed record on the site was 295wpm by Kathy (florentine – TRData). Just a tad shy of the ludicrous 300wpm barrier! Video is here — don’t blink, she blazes through it and the video is pretty much over as soon as it starts!
TypeRacer is pleased to announce today that on Sep. 6th, TypeRacer legend Michael DeRoche passed the 300 barrier, setting a site-wide speed record with 300.42 wpm. Great work Michael! (Note: keyboard typists only — excludes stenographers).
History of TR Speed Records
See the replay of the 300wpm record!
Race against Michael’s Ghost — Try to beat 300wpm!
While Michael’s typing record was set in 2.05 seconds, we also want to congratulate ⦗𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐋⦘ ⦓☾✹✯𝚅𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎✯✹☽⦔ (Viellain) who beat the site-wide Marathon record with 3,820 races in 24 hours. Viellain started on Sep. 4th, 2017 at 9:12PM EST and did almost 4,000 races within the 24 hours following. Needless to say, Viellain won our daily competition on 9/5 (when he did most of his Marathon races), accumulating 200,761 points over the two days that his Marathon spanned. We’re pretty sure that’s a record too.
I chatted with Viellain on the TypeRacer Discord and asked if he had any comments for the announcement. He promised he would be breaking the record again by the end of September, with “a marathon to end all marathons.” He also stated “SECT won seasons 1” and “All hail and Glory to the Empyrean Forces, for we are the Conquering OverLords”
We’re not entirely sure what those last comments mean but are including them anyway 
Congrats to Viellain! We upgraded his account to Premium for free to congratulate him. We’re impressed by his tenacity and glad to have such dedicated typists on the site.
In an interesting twist, Michael DeRoche was the previous holder of Viellain’s record. Below are the Marathon leaders from TypeRacerData.com. This announcement marks a new record for Mike — while he’s being simultaneously dethroned by Viellain on another record.
| # | Racer | Most Races in 24 hrs. |
| 1 |  www.discord.me/typeracer (viellain) |
3,820 |
| 2 | Michael DeRoche (deroche1) | 3,097 |
| 3 | Taro Yada (yada) | 1,619 |
| 4 | still type (mokori) | 1,320 |
| 5 | ♕ David ♕ (valikor) | 1,179 |
| 6 | F@§T£RPr0 (fastermart) | 1,000 |
| 7 | DUFOUR (Best Races) (119.83 WPM) | 999 |
| 8 | but thou must (pentalon) | 900 |
| 9 | Nadel (nadel1232) | 889 |
| 10 | Shoemaker-Levy 9 (atthetop) | 829 |
| 11 | Steve (haxmatix) | 802 |
| 12 | MadsFuldGas (swaax) | 778 |
| 13 | once upon a time in Chinois… | 777 |
| 14 | facebook.com/sumitbest (sum… | 737 |
| 15 | Alexander (nomak) | 734 |
Congrats!
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