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Third Round of Polls
Hi everyone, For the past couple months, we’ve spent quite a bit of time and energy trying to figure out exactly what our users want, so that we can make Typeracer better and more enjoyable for...
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All-New Typeracer in Spanish: ¡Bienvenido al nuevo Typeracer Español!
Hola, Typeracers! As you may know, Typeracer has been offering races in non-English languages for over three years now. We currently support 51 languages. Remember this announcement? There has been one...
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Win Prizes in TypeRacer’s First Official Book Contest
Introduction A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of attending a book talk by author Daniel Isenberg on his new book called Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create...
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The Contest Results Are In
The time has come to announce the results and winners of our first official book typing contest! There were 829 participants who completed a grand total of 43,056 races, cumulatively typing out over...
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Review of the Corsair K-series Gaming Keyboard
This keyboard and the customizable lighting (available on the “RGB” models) are insanely cool and its mechanical switches will certainly give you a speed boost. The RGB models come in 3 sizes: K65...
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The Community and The Numbers, 2014 Edition
Some things you probably didn’t know about Typeracer in 2014… Anybody who’s been on Typeracer for a while will know that the site is a platform for people all around the world to motivate each other to...
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New texts come to Typeracer. . . thanks to all of you!
People often email or post about how Typeracer should add more texts. We have about 700 at present, but we realize that this number needs to keep increasing, especially as some users complete a lot of...
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Celebrate Typeracer’s 7th Birthday with a Typing Contest!
This month Typeracer will be celebrating its 7th birthday! When I think of how old Typeracer is getting, the first thought that pops into my mind is that I must be getting old too! I started playing...
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Winners of Typeracer 7th Anniversary Contest – and a new Typeracer World Record!
Hi All, I’m pleased to announce the winners of Typeracer’s 7th anniversary typing contest! The details of that contest were outlined in our last blog post. To refresh everyone’s memory, in the 7 days...
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Bad news for cheaters on Typeracer – and other new improvements!
Hi Typeracers! Cheaters can prepare to see a message like this whenever they try to login. (“All your accounts are belong to us.”) In the heat of mid-summer, what could be better than sitting in the...
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Typeracer Summer Video Contest
[9/10 Update] Four submissions have been received – everyone is getting a prize! We’re extending the deadline to 9/17 to give some folks more time! Submissions received: OSUBORA:...
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New quotes added to Typeracer!
Hi folks, Last week we added 250 new quotes on Typeracer. We’ve added plenty of easy, short ones, as well as a few long, nearly-impossible ones — such as the text Sean Wrona won on at the Ultimate...
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Top 100 Most Valuable Racers: Past 2 years: 2014-2016
Hey Typeracers, As most of you know, the TypeRacer home page sports a “high scores” board to honor the fastest typists of the hour, as well as the top-100 in terms of overall average speed, races...
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TypeRacer Championship 2017 launched!
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,...
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TypeRacer adds a thousand quotes from classic literature and films – reaches...
Hi everyone, 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...
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Detailed info now available in racing history
Hello Typeracers! 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...
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Typing Replays
We’ve just rolled out an update of TypeRacer, featuring a new and improved typing interface, which allows us to record your actual typing and show you a replay at the end of the race. It looks like...
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Back by popular demand
In response to your comments about our new typing interface, we have added the option of reverting back to the old typing interface, at your discretion. If you feel that the new typing interface is...
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New Pit Stop features: full race history and typing replays
To supplement the typing replays that were enabled earlier this month at the end of each race, we are now adding the ability to view typing replays of your prior races, as well as those of your...
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Enjoy the new quotes added to TypeRacer – and tell us what you like to type!
Hi TypeRacers! New Quotes In January we announced that around 1,500 new quotes had been added over the previous several months, bringing the total to just over 2,000 in the main English universe. This...
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