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 2.5 million words on 25 passages from the book Worthless, Impossible and Stupid, at an average speed of 82 WPM (that’s about 520 hours or 21 days of typing)!

And now it’s my great pleasure to announce the winners! As you may recall from this blog post, there were two ways to qualify for a prize:

Top Contenders By Points Earned

For the purpose of this contest, points were calculated based on your WPM multiplied by the total number of words typed.

Rank	Racer	Points earned	Avg. WPM	Races completed	Words typed	Prize
1	dumdumbrulz	38,402,775	115	8344	343,507	$50
2	elusoryx	20,479,254	124	2564	166,973	$30
3	fightin_phils	14,824,314	158	1448	94,983	$20
4	neithan	6,297,661	79	1213	81,107
5	ceiba	4,571,493	79	874	58,889
6	kaqqy	4,413,194	104	661	42,970
7	lucean	3,315,830	85	552	39,113
8	whyuhefftobmad	3,025,890	73	625	42,389
9	violatorj7	2,985,308	115	449	26,492
10	dvorakmax	2,983,992	99	460	30,647

If you participated but didn’t make it to the top 10, you can still check where you stand in the full list of scores here!

Lottery Results

There were 442 participants who completed at least 10 races and thereby became eligible for the random prize drawing. We have conducted the drawing and compiled a list of contenders ranked by lowest lottery number. Over the coming days we will be emailing the contenders individually, in that order, to offer prizes while supplies last.

Disclaimer: Being on this list does not guarantee a prize, since there’s a limited number of prizes available, and other restrictions as described in the contest details (for example, we can’t mail books and T-shirts outside the United States).

Lottery #	Racer	Points earned	Avg. WPM	Races completed	Words typed
1	darrive	59,983	74	13	822
2	hysteria111	47,806	54	12	894
3	bookspinner	60,971	91	10	678
4	tetsuro	128,423	92	18	1,393
5	bostikforever	56,254	71	10	801
6	kreuzfeld	40,676	69	11	594
7	weirdokeren	50,718	70	13	731
8	ruddy_dvorak	85,775	31	58	2,750
9	altobeast	64,470	93	11	712
10	crocket101	1,972,292	91	353	21,967
11	kiethuynh	49,485	72	11	702
12	prusswan	59,302	76	10	767
13	teddylie	283,365	104	41	2,752
14	billyluck	107,792	69	24	1,559
15	busey	95,751	65	19	1,476
16	diogop	51,441	86	12	634
17	maniaklord	35,384	56	11	640
18	vin_man101	81,602	70	20	1,194
19	muchtypewow	126,998	91	22	1,410
20	lindeman	56,694	80	11	709
21	buuvinhpro	60,147	77	10	784
22	asbah1	783,609	59	215	13,599
23	_faya_	34,901	50	11	735
24	cosmonaut	238,858	93	45	2,567
25	inoahlot4	67,480	103	10	659
26	hifreeo	90,806	74	17	1,248
27	himanshujaju	95,168	68	25	1,407
28	azxuy	99,618	113	21	921
29	pieman353	68,614	90	11	772
30	gktek	1,032,565	114	143	9,122
31	effort0208	108,514	61	27	1,767
32	mrcizzo	49,857	101	10	503
33	kevinlizarraganunez	19,594	33	11	614
34	cyberwire	47,975	101	11	476
35	pshy0	610,701	79	129	7,715
36	kat198135	232,021	104	43	2,241
37	filaval	41,787	53	12	785
38	parlai	185,135	118	25	1,574
39	wasilsiddiqui	60,306	76	14	804
40	mayo_tp01	290,667	84	52	3,434