Nitro Type – A Competitive Typing Game

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About Nitro Type

Austin Butler and Teaching.com created Nitro Type, an online multiplayer typing game. Nitro Type pits players against up to four other players to see who can type the fastest. It became live on September 8, 2011. Nitro Type’s beta version was released on September 8, 2011. However, Austin mentioned in the first news article that the game had been in production for more than six months and that he had originally came up with the idea for the game five years before its release.

In late January 2012, the game exited beta. It received two significant upgrades in April 2015 and June 2019.

Competitors race in automobiles that travel through the track as users write sentences. Nitro Type does not teach users how to type, but rather uses constant practice in a fun and competitive setting to boost WPM and accuracy. A player in a race must type the words on the screen. In each race, players will have one nitro that may be used to skip words and advance in the race. As an incentive to train, the game awards users with in-game cash for finishing races, which can be used to purchase vehicles and goodies in the Shop. There are also hundreds of accomplishments available that will provide even more money, vehicles, and stuff upon completion (with difficulty ranging from creating an account to completing 750,000 total races). Nitro Type also conducts events and seasons that provide new, limited-time accomplishments, vehicles, and prizes to keep its content fresh.

Nitro Type and Nitro Math share similar features. The same currency, mystery box system, season schedule (including XP and awards), vehicles, garage, loot, friends list, Shop, news page, and Gold Membership system are included.

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Race

Nitro Type revolves around and is defined by races. Racers compete to see who can type a passage or body of text quicker. Each racer’s position is represented by a car on the track. There are two types of races: regular races and friend races. Practice races were removed in the v3 update.

Regular Races:

Regular races, usually known as the “main track,” are open to the public. When a person enters a normal race, their automobile appears on the racing course. The racetrack can accommodate a total of five racers. The racers can be actual individuals or bots that enter the race if there are no available players in a player’s speed range for matching. Following that, a few seconds will elapse before the race begins. During this moment, the text to be written while racing is revealed under the race track. There was once an advertisement banner with Flag Girl next to it. With the introduction of Nitro Type 2.0 in 2015, this was eliminated.

The length of the text is determined by the player’s usual typing pace, which means that regardless of speed, the section will take around 25 seconds to complete without the use of nitro. When the countdown ends, the text below the race may be written, and the person racing is expected to start typing, generally with the objective of finishing the text and crossing the finish line before the other players or bots racing with them. Nitro can be used to skip a word, moving the player forward. They will be disqualified if they go more than twelve seconds without typing any characters.

Friend Races:

Friend races are the same as ordinary races, except that only one player and additional persons invited from their friend list or who join through the player’s join link are allowed to participate. For buddy races, there is also a scripted conversation. The number of participants who may be invited to a buddy race is limited to four. Casual and First To Finish is the two buddy racing modes.

Practice Races:

Practice races were a sort of racing that began immediately when a player entered the arena. The player would be given a whole text to enter that was not abridged based on their typing speed. Practice races were fully private because only one participant may participate in them. Practice races might be used to complete the Practice, Practice Makes Perfect, and Lord of the Practice accolades. With the introduction of Nitro Type v3, they were eliminated.

Race Tracks:

There used to be a variety of tracks available for racing on. Except for select Xmaxx and Summer events, they were picked at random at the start of each race. Using an event vehicle at these events would modify the circuit to reflect the event’s theme. During an Xmaxx Event, for example, the track is snowy, with tinsel and Hanukkah menorahs in the bleachers. The beach motif would take over in the summer. Other tracks included a desert track, a woodland track, and a few more, all of which may be seen here. The multiple race circuits were removed on November 11, 2020, and replaced with the HD track, replete with a live audience. Originally, the HD track simply featured one track, comparable to the grass track below. On May 7, 2021, a Seaside Rally course was introduced, along with sound effects such as a new crowd and bird sounds. The Heritage Trail track, replete with sound effects and animated foliage, was released on October 4, 2021. The Nitro City track, replete with animated lights and a rain animation, was released on November 22, 2021.

Forest Track:

Arctic Track:

Beach Track:

Alternate Beach Track:

Desert Track:

Grass Track:

Holiday Track:

Professional Tips:

A pro tips box may be seen at the bottom of the race screen when waiting for competitors to enter the race. These hints vary from simple typing guidance to urging gamers to express gratitude to their tutors.

Alternative strategies and exploits

|There have been several ways employed by players in the past to complete more races in less time, often to offer themselves unfair advantages, mostly in the context of leader boards. Some of the tactics employed are listed below.

Cheating, sometimes known as “hacking” or “botting,” is the most prevalent way to exploit races. Cheaters utilize a typing tool or script to input keystrokes automatically. All typing tools and scripts are forbidden, and any non-Gold member who cheats will be permanently banned.
There are several hacks that let players to edit the text, use endless nitros, write numerous characters or words in a single keyboard (e.g. macros), or view the longest word in the race. With the exception of seeing the longest word, all of these tricks are prohibited.

Professional Tips:

A pro tips box may be seen at the bottom of the race screen when waiting for competitors to enter the race. These hints vary from simple typing guidance to urging gamers to express gratitude to their tutors.

Alternative strategies and exploits

There have been several ways employed by players in the past to complete more races in less time, often to offer themselves unfair advantages, mostly in the context of leaderboards. Some of the tactics employed are listed below.

Cheating, sometimes known as “hacking” or “botting,” is the most prevalent way to exploit races. Cheaters utilize a typing tool or script to input keystrokes automatically. All typing tools and scripts are forbidden, and any non-Gold member who cheats will be permanently banned.
There are several hacks that let players to edit the text, use endless nitros, write numerous characters or words in a single keyboard (e.g. macros), or view the longest word in the race. With the exception of seeing the longest word, all of these tricks are prohibited.

Sandbagging

Sandbagging is the deliberate slowing of typing speed in order to race at slower speeds. This method is beneficial for several reasons: Lower speed ranges have more racers. As a result, the races will load faster, allowing players to enhance their race completion to time spent ratio. Lower speed ranges include shorter messages, requiring fewer keystrokes (and hence less energy). For some players, this boosts their chances of obtaining a new high speed because they are not required to sustain a high speed for longer periods of time.

It allows for multitasking since a player who is traveling at a slower speed than their real speed can stop frequently during the race without losing or being disqualified.

Sandbagging was often employed to obtain accomplishment titles such as “God Mode” and “Holiday Hacker”. However, with the loss of these successes and some administrative efforts to deter sandbagging, the practice has gone out of favor. It may still be utilized to speed up completion of the “Winning Races” Daily Challenges.

Nitrolling

Nitrolling is the skilled use of nitros, typically at the finish of a race, to tease or “troll” other players by taking the win. Nitrolling has been mentioned in the game (ex. the Salty sticker). This approach is sometimes utilized in conjunction with sandbagging, in which the racer may slow down after accelerating up to use nitro. If a user uses nitro on the final word, their car will halt at the finish line while the nitro animation is playing, even if they are not in the race sequence. Vielle was the first to create this phrase in 2012.

Guest Racing

Guest racing is a technique in which the user opens a friend’s race track URL on four other browsers or devices while running autorefresh on them. As a result, when they join their own buddy race track, each race starts immediately. This reduces bot load times, providing the gamer with a significant competitive edge.
Guest racing was utilized to speed up race load times by racers such as Vielle and former moderator andrew1167 as early as 2013. It was utilized again by Nightmare in 2017 during Season 1 to strengthen his squad, culminating in a dispute that effectively rendered guest racing illegal.
In spite of this, Galaxied and ayeyuhskuh utilized it once again during Season 18, which led the moderators to substantially reduce bot load times for racers above 100 WPM and forbid several guest racers from participating in a single friend race.

Account Sharing

A user who shares their account information allows other players to complete races on their behalf. Although this strategy is legal, it has traditionally received negative feedback from the locals. The possibility of the account being stolen rises as a result. This is a significant danger, particularly in light of the fact that many victims of account theft typically are unable to recover their accounts.

Multi-Tracking

Racing on numerous windows simultaneously is referred to as multi-racing (also known as multi-tracking). Multitracking comes in two varieties:

running many races simultaneously on a same account. Nightmare employed this technique for the first time in Season 1. As a result of his reporting, the accomplishment and title “Bug Smasher” were created. During Season 18, ayeyuhskuh utilized the technique and reported it, leading to its patching.
spreading out the execution of several races among several accounts. This technique effectively combines account sharing, multi-tracking, and sandbagging from the previous section. During Season 39, Vielle created it. The technique, which was demonstrated on the Top Type YouTube channel, was mostly employed by SECT members.

Because neither approach allows much opportunity for breaks, finishing races with multi-racing or guest racing is often thought to be more demanding on the player than it would otherwise be. Due to the disqualification timer, multi-racing especially needs the user to switch windows every 8 seconds (if racing on two accounts), and this time period lowers if the player chooses to use more accounts. As a result, multi-racing is only employed by the most skilled players because it necessitates extensive knowledge of other gaming techniques like sandbagging and account-sharing, as well as a player’s ability to type at a reasonable pace and be familiar with keyboard shortcuts.