Nightmare

**Nightmare** is a racer on Nitro Type. He is known for a number of things, including:

* The first racer to complete a 1,200 race session and earn the title "Typing Nightmare", which was named after him
* The captain of the team SECT, as well as its previous incarnation
* The first player to earn the title "Bug Smasher"
* Having had a long history of bans, including the permanent ban of his account dabestswagg

## Account history

### Season 0.5

Nightmare's first account (username: **dabestswagg**) was created on 8 Mar 2013. He placed 46th in Season 0.5, a test season, which lasted from Sep 2016-Jan 2017. The account **dabestswagg** had a history of being banned, and was temporarily banned seven or eight times. However, this account was finally permanently banned on 28 Dec 2016, in the middle of Season 0.5, for exploiting bugs. Less than a week after being banned, on 3 Jan 2017, Nightmare made a new account (username: **sp00kydream**). Amazingly, despite having been able to race for only about 20% of the season on his new account, Nightmare still managed to place 8th for the season. This makes Nightmare one of the few racers to have two accounts in the top 100 in the same season.

### Season 1 controversy

Considering he had done so well in Season 0.5, it is perhaps unsurprising that Nightmare came very close to winning Season 1. Nightmare was neck-and-neck with Smithy by the end of the season, with Smithy having around 2.85 million points and Nightmare having around 2.78 million points. (The third-place racer, Moises, was well behind with around 2.22 million points.) However, at the very end of the season, all of Nightmare's points were manually wiped by the admins due to Nightmare's guest racing abuse, the only type this has ever happened. This means all of Nightmare's season races (nearly 20,000) were discounted, and he did not officially place in the season. Without these points, Nightmare's team, SECT, of which he was captain (see section Team history) finished a very close second, just behind team DOG. Counting these points, SECT would have won the season. This incident received great backlash from players, with some calling Season 1 "rigged." However, Nightmare's points were never reinstated, and DOG are still the official winners of Season 1.

### Present activities

Nightmare officially left the community in late 2017, going into 2018. However, he later returned. He is the first racer to earn the Special Sauce achievement and corresponding title "Bug Smasher" (see section Bug Smasher), having done so at an unknown date. More recently, he received the Shadow XMaxx tree for helping with Nitro Math alpha testing. He re-established team [SECT] on 12 Apr 2022 (see section Team history), which won Season 39-Nitro Arcade Volumes 1 and 2. Nightmare is currently racing actively.

## Team history

### NTF

Nightmare was the leader of the clan NTF which was formed on 29 Nov 2013. At a later date, it merged with SOL to form COL. Nine days after that, COL broke apart, leading to the formation of the new clans NTF, SBD, and NTS, which are regarded as the "big three" elite clans. NTF was often considered to be the "second coming" of NTM, having many of its most famous members. While Nightmare was the leader of the clan, XxShifttheProxX was the co-leader, and Bageled was the former co-leader.

### SECT

#### First incarnation

Nightmare created SECT, aka Empyrean Conquerors, on 16 Jan 2017, with Vielle working with the team. Remarkably, despite having only two weeks (or 10% of the season) to race, SECT still managed to finish 10th that season. The next season, Season 1, was controversial. The team's goal this season was dominating the scoreboards and "emancipating the terrene." They also hoped to upset the "Big Three" teams (DOG, NTA, and STPR), which they did. However, due to guest racer abuse, all of Nightmare's 2.7 million-plus points were manually wiped by the admins; that is, they were officially discounted. Due to this removal of points, SECT finished second to team DOG this season. This incident received great backlash from players, with some calling Season 1 "rigged." However, Nightmare's points were never reinstated, and DOG are still the official winners of Season 1. Later, in May of 2020, the team was auto-disbanded due to Nightmare's inactivity.

#### Second incarnation

Nightmare reformed SECT on 12 Apr 2022, with the goal of winning both parts of Season 39, as well as honoring their victory from Season 1. SECT also launched what would soon become the most popular Nitro Type Discord. The team quickly rose up the leaderboards, soon becoming in the top 100, and within a week in the top 3. Major competition came in the form of teams ELV, TBZ, and REB3LS. The team won both Season 39 Nitro Arcade Volume 1 and Volume 2. The team had to unexpectedly retire at the start of Season 40 due to Nightmare's real-life priorities. It is still around, however, and has no plans of disbanding. It is close allies with team NTM, of which Vielle is captain.

## Special titles

### Typing Nightmare

Nightmare was the first person to race 1,200 times in a single session, which he did on his "dabestswagg" account. For this, the achievement Typing Nightmare and its corresponding title were given to him, although anyone who completed 1,200 session races could achieve this. It was later made unobtainable on Halloween (31 Oct) 2019 due to Travis not wanting players to detriment their health by doing long sessions.

### Bug Smasher

"Bug Smasher" was originally given to Nightmare for finding a vulnerability in the backend which allowed players to double, triple, or even quadruple their race count per minute, also known as multi-tracking. After testing, it was confirmed one could maximize the number of races per minute to their own physical capabilities. Nightmare is capable of typing 130 WPM on average, but by lowering his WPM to 40 he was able to do 5-6 races per minute which means if this glitch was exploited, 4,000 races in a day would be possible. After reporting the bug to Travis and Austin, they awarded him with the "Bug Smasher" title and $15,000,000. **(copied from Nitro Wiki)**

## Stats

The stats for Nightmare's old account (dabestswagg) are unknown. Nightmare's new account (sp00kydream) was formed on 3 Jan 2017. He has around 110 average words per minute, and 232 high WPM. He has exactly 55,555 races and about 95,000 profile views. His highest session on sp00kydream is 2,367 races.

## Leaderboard placements

### Personal

Season 0.5 - **46th** (dabestswagg - banned)

Season 0.5 - **8th** (sp00kydream)

Season 1 - **2nd** (sp00kydream; before wipe)

### Team

Season 0.5 - **10th** (SECT #1)

Season 1 - **2nd** (SECT #1; 1st without wipe)

Season 39 Vol. 1 - **1st** (SECT #2)

Season 39 Vol. 2 - **1st** (SECT #2)