Type Racing

Have you ever wanted to feel the rush that race car driving gives? Have you ever wondered what racers feel when behind the wheel? Are you a computer guy who just couldn’t get out of your chair? Feeling lazy?

Then Type Racer is for you!

I’ve recently got into Type Racer only because a classmate of mine, while we were in class, was observing me as I type and type and type the notes that the teacher was giving us that day. Of course, as much as I can, I do my best to be consistent when it comes with a skill such as typing. Anyway, she was looking at me and after the lesson, she approached me and asked if I could help her with typing. The first thing that came to mind was Type Racer which was actually introduced to me by tPenguinLTG (who else would, right?). Once we got into the conversation, I started telling her the ways of how I learned how to type, which was putting my fingers on the home row keys and just keep on typing “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy, snoozing dog,” because the sentence has all the letter in the alphabet, therefore letting the typer touch all the keys (at least, the alphabetic ones).

Type Racer is great because of three reasons:

1. It keeps track of your score/average
   This one is quite interesting. I’m assuming most typing websites and programs and games take care of the same ordeal, but this one seems to be more accurate. Not only does it keep track of your average, but also your accuracy with typing the given paragraphs.
2. You can have your own account
   When you enter the site, you have a choice of either playing as a guest or playing with your own account. With an account, you can actually keep track (and keep record) of your average speed and your accuracy level. Having an account is advantageous so you can have your own cool username.
3. Competition, competition, competition
   As much as they hold records of your typing skills, they also show them off. They have updated leaderboards where the best typers are put on rank. This is good to look at, so that you know who to beat and what score to beat. Oh, the excitement!

You can try and beat my score of 71 words per minute (for some of you, that’s easy). Yes, that is slow, but forgive me, I’m not “accurate” really, I’m more of a typing student rather than a typing master or typing legend (I have no idea what I mean here, I’m high on medication while writing this).

Here’s the website: Type Racer

Add me on your friends list: dreadnoughtsix

Keep Typing!