TypeRacer

I think there’s something wrong with me. I came across this simple web game called TypeRacer and actually found my competitive nature kicking in and making an otherwise productive day into a keyboard melting experience. And the odd thing is that it’s probably good for me.

The whole idea is that it gives you a paragraph from a book, movie or song that you have to type, accurately, as fast as you can. At the same time, other people are racing against you to type the paragraph faster. Little Volkswagen New Beetles race along the top of the screen to show the progress. The first to complete the paragraph with no mistakes wins. Then you go on to the next race.

The thing is that I nearly flunked my typing class when I was in high school.  I’ve gotten better with typing in my computer career but I still make plenty of mistakes.  But making typing into an on-line competition?  I’m already up to 60 words per minute!  Granted that’s in a short burst typing out one paragraph, but still – it’s improvement.

Of course there’s also a leaderboard that shows the fastest typers and obviously there are some robots that play this game too because I don’t hink it’s humanly possible to type at 217 words per minute.  Perhaps there’s a cheat like Aimbot for typing or something.  Who cares.  Try it out.