Published on 2026-08-21
Ranked matchmaking pairs you with a stranger. A shared room link works for anyone who happens to click it. But most of the time, the person you actually want to race is someone you already know — a friend, a sibling, a coworker you keep beating at trivia. WikiRacing's friends system is built around that exact case.
No email, no phone number, no contact sync — just type someone's username into the friends panel and send a request. They accept or decline from their side, and once accepted, you show up on each other's friends list permanently, ready to check in on any time.
Every friend on your list shows a live status: a green dot if they've been active in the last three minutes, and a "last seen" timestamp otherwise. Instead of guessing whether anyone's around to race, you can glance at the list and immediately see who's actually available.
Once you know a friend is online, starting a race is one click away — launch a multiplayer lobby, grab the room link, and send it straight to them. It's the same casual race mode anyone can join, just aimed at someone you know is actually there to receive it, instead of hoping a link posted somewhere gets picked up.
A small badge on your profile pill lets you know when a friend request is waiting, so you're not stuck manually checking a menu. Declining a request costs nothing and doesn't notify the sender differently than if you'd simply ignored it — there's no pressure to accept everyone who sends one.
If someone's more trouble than they're worth, blocking removes any existing friendship immediately and stops that person from sending you a new request in either direction. Public profiles also carry a report button, for anything that goes beyond "I'd just rather not play with this person."
Open the friends panel, add someone whose username you already know, and the next time you're both online, the race is one click away instead of a link you have to go find.