feross · February 29, 2012 01:32 · Feb 29, 2012 · Feb 29, 2012
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+// Feross Aboukhadijeh - Apr 12 2010
+// 
+// Script I hacked together to cheat on TypeRacer.com. You use it by waiting for the typing game
+// to start. Once it starts, open up Firebug, paste in this code, and run it. Now, just press
+// space to auto-type each word. I made the user push space, as opposed to advancing the words 
+// automatically because I believe the site looks for a keypress event before evaluating the contents
+// of the input box. I could not figure out how to fake a user keypress event. Perhaps this is
+// disallowed for browser security reasons?
+//
+// Next todo: Site detects the unbelievable WPM and asks you to do a captcha test.
+
+wordNumber = 0;
+function PrintNextWord() {
+    word = answerArr[wordNumber];
+    inputs[0].value = word;
+    wordNumber++;
+}
+
+// setup - run once
+
+document.onkeypress = PrintNextWord;
+
+firstWord = null;
+for (i=0; i<99; ++i) {
+    firstWord = document.getElementById("nhwMiddlegwt-uid-" + i);
+    if (firstWord != null) {
+        break;
+    }
+}
+
+answer = null;
+for (i=0; i<99; ++i) {
+    answer = document.getElementById("nhwRightgwt-uid-" + i);
+    if (answer != null) {
+        break;
+    }
+}
+
+answer = firstWord.innerHTML + answer.innerHTML;
+// alert(answer);
+answerArr = answer.split(" ");
+
+inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
+
+PrintNextWord();