So how fast can YOU type? Would you like to get faster? Would you like to play a game in the process? Then you have got to visit TypeRacer. This thing is addictive, let me tell you.
How does this tie in with Stephen Colbert exactly? I’m getting there, I promise! According to our friends over at Pop Candy, “I know a few of you are already addicted to TypeRacer… The cool thing about the site is that its typing tests incorporate passages from cool movies, songs and books, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Clockwork Orange and Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!).” Yes, you could end up getting the opportunity to speed type the words of Stephen! I’ve played quite a few of these games and come up on Stephen’s book for the selection a few times.
So if you need something to do for the next 30 minutes until Steve Carell hosts Saturday Night Live tonight, and you want to race me, I’ll be here:
Okay..you’re right. That is addicting. On my first try I got a quote from I Am America…the chapter on Hollywood, and it was really kind of distracting. I type so much faster when all of the words are, you know, REAL.
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This is awesome! I haven’t gotten a chance to play yet, bit I definitely will sometime. Right now it’s way too late, and I’m way too medicated to even contemplate playing. Seriously, who gets a cold in May?!
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you werent kidding when you said addictive.
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was gonna edit, but it kept saying “Load comment failed”.
Vtech guy who is getting 120+ wpm is gotta be cheating. 150 words per minute is more than 2 words a second. He’s gotta have one of those voice translation packages.
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Ooo, that was fun. Now they just need to find a way to harness all that free typing for charitable purposes.
There’s some speed racer typing over there who just swept by me at a clip of 221 wpm. S/he goes by Utkarsh Kukreti, but I’m betting it’s really…
RAAAAAAAINN!
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I just typed a phrase that I thought was pretty cool and I wanted to read whatever book it was that it was from. after I finished and looked at the cover, realized I read the book a few years ago, but I didn’t even remember it existed!
have only typed one IAAASCY passage. I bet I beat all my competitors with they deft right-pinky action need for “Stephen.”
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I haven’t read Stephen’s book yet (just got the audiobook yesterday!), but I knew that I was typing a paragraph from the book when I fumbled my way through “celebritocracy” – that’s a Stephen Colbert word.
Oh and I agree on the addictiveness. But I feel that I get smarter while I play, so it’s alright.
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Totally just got the “no free rides” passage from IAAASCY. It made my day. :)
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God, so freaking addictive. Games #31 and 59 were the passage about him dictating the book over Columbus Day Weekend. None of the others were from IAA(ASCY!). My fingers are exhausted, and I’m never going to beat this mysterious “David” who consistently gets over 100 wpm. Gah!
Edit: Oh, super! We can edit comments! But for only a certain amount of time, is that what the countdown is?
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Same passage again: race #79.
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