Race the AI by typing words. Each correct letter pushes your car forward; first past the chequered flag wins. Three difficulties from 38 to 72 WPM. Free in browser.
Type the highlighted word on your keyboard — each correct letter advances your car. Backspace fixes typos. On mobile tap the focus button to open the keyboard. Pick easy, medium, or hard before pressing Start.
Typing Race is a head-to-head speed-typing game. You and the AI start at the same gate; every correct keystroke nudges your car forward by one chip, and the AI cruises at a steady chars-per-second pace. First past the chequered flag wins — and at higher difficulties the only way to stay ahead is real-world typing speed.
Competitive typing is older than the modern keyboard. The first speed-typing contests ran in 1888 on Remington typewriters; today sites like TypeRacer and Monkeytype host millions of matches. A working typist averages 40 WPM, an experienced one 60 WPM, and the upper professional band sits between 80 and 120 WPM. Our hard difficulty puts the AI around 72 WPM — beatable, but you'll feel it.
Each word draws from a pool of two hundred of the most common English words, so the game doubles as practice for everyday text. Accuracy is tracked separately from speed: typos require a backspace correction and count against your final percentage, so blazing through and fixing later costs you more than careful, steady typing.
Words per minute = (correct characters / 5) / (elapsed minutes). Five characters per word is the standard convention used by every typing-speed test since the 1950s.
Indirectly. WPM counts only correct characters, so each typo you don't backspace simply doesn't add to your progress. Backspacing costs time but adds to accuracy denominator.
40 is functional, 60 is good, 80+ is competitive. Touch-typing courses typically push beginners to 40 WPM in a month and 60 WPM in three.
You have to fix them — every character must match the target word in order before you can continue. The next-letter cursor moves forward only on a correct keystroke.
Multilingual word lists are on the roadmap. For now the 200 most common English words give you broad coverage of everyday typing patterns.
No. The AI runs at a fixed characters-per-second pace per difficulty: 3.2 cps (easy), 4.5 cps (medium), 6.0 cps (hard). That predictability is part of the challenge — you know exactly what to beat.