Penalty shootout against an AI keeper. Tap inside the goal to aim — the keeper reads your shot and dives. Score more than the AI across five shots to win. Free.
Tap or click inside the goal where you want the ball to go. The keeper picks one of three zones and dives within 80–180ms — corners are hardest for the keeper to reach but easiest to miss. Five shots each, most goals wins.
The penalty kick is football's purest one-on-one duel. From eleven metres away the striker has roughly a half second to decide where to shoot before the keeper begins to dive; in elite leagues the success rate hovers between 75% and 80%. Penalty shootouts have decided World Cup finals, Champions League titles, and countless cup competitions since their introduction in 1970.
This version is a five-shot shootout against a computer keeper. Tap inside the goal where you want the ball to go — the keeper reads your aim, gets it right about 45% of the time, and dives within an 80 to 180 millisecond reaction window. The closer your shot is to a corner, the harder it is for the keeper to reach, but a corner shot also has the smallest margin for error.
Behind the simplicity the keeper has only three zones to commit to — left, centre, right — so a confident corner shot beats a centre shot statistically. The AI plays straight: roughly 70% scoring rate per shot. Beat that average across five attempts and the match is yours.
Roughly 75–80% of penalty kicks in elite leagues are converted into goals. Our AI plays around 70%, which is realistic for an unselected sample — World Cup data sits a few points lower than club football because the pressure is higher.
It splits the goal into three zones (left, centre, right) and reads which one your aim lands in. With 45% probability it guesses your zone correctly; otherwise it dives to one of the other two zones at random.
Yes. Shots that land outside the goal's frame count as misses — no goal, no save, just embarrassed silence. Aim a bit inside the posts to be safe.
The keeper begins diving 60 to 180 milliseconds after your tap, then the dive itself takes 350 milliseconds. The closer your shot is to a post, the less likely the dive reaches it in time.
Not in this version. After five shots each, a tied match ends as a draw. Sudden-death support is on the roadmap.
The striker. Goal size and reaction asymmetry favour the kicker — even with a perfect guess, the keeper can only reach part of the goal in the available time. Our 70% AI scoring rate reflects this real-world advantage.