Pit Stop

The Pit Stop is the social and informational area of  typeracer.com. Here you can take a break from  typera cing  to  read your messages,  edit your profile,  make friends, and learn about your competitors. At the Pit Stop you are also able to see other user accounts that are using the features of the Pit Stop at the 'Who's Here' section. The section below 'Who's Here' is called 'Who's Racing (Latest Finishes)' and it shows anyone that has recently finished a race showing their speed, accuracy, opponents with usernames, number of guest opponents, position, country and username.

Profiles
Each racer has a public profile page, which you can view and edit. Your profile displays all your racing stats, and you can additionally fill out your personal information section to tell others where you live and what kind of keyboard you use.

Most importantly, if you have a premium account, you can now upload a profile picture, which will appear on your popup scorecard during races. And you can also fill out an extended “About Me” section where you can write anything you want to share with the rest of the typeracer community (such as links to your website, blog, Twitter account, Facebook profile, etc.)

Friends
When you come across the profile of a racer you’d like to be friends with, you can send them a friend request right from their profile by going to their profile and clicking on 'Send friend request,' optionally adding a message to the request, then click on the button that says 'Send friend request'. You can invite your real friends by entering their email addresses into the friend finder box on the Friends page. Or you can just grab a link to your TypeRacer profile and publish it to your Facebook stream or Twitter feed so that your friends who use TypeRacer can easily find you.

Messages
You can send a private message to anyone who has a TypeRacer account using the Pit Stop. Premium account holders can send messages to anyone else. Basic account holders can only send messages to their friends, but everyone can reply to all messages. These restrictions are in place to cut down on spam. The scorecard popups on TypeRacer have been updated to let you quickly check out people’s profiles and send them messages. Just left-click on someone’s name or avatar while you’re racing to bring up this menu.