No way to change keyboard layouts?

It would be nice if it had the option to indicate you which finger you should be using to press the key ideally. Like the mechanigraphy games.

Dollars to doughnuts this is collecting keypress-cadence data for fooling anti-automation algorithms with natural typing speeds.

If you think about it as a game and not a typing exercice it's quite good, feels a bit like a typing guitar hero, and the animations are fun. Also learned some words. It lacks an accessible about page, you only reach it once going through a complete round.

It's weird to see only one word at the time. I don't think this reflects my true typing speed as I have a tiny pause to read the word once it shows on the screen. On the other hand, I'm able to read multiple words ahead as long as I can see them and naturally remove the pause.

I like it, but the fact that you don't have to input the whole word correctly and only each individual letter really conflicts with my muscle-memory to correct mistakes. I also think the animations and effects are a little over the top and they distract me from typing.

Black text on a purple key is hardly unreadable for me.

had to disable vimium because it doesn't work well with this site. I don't know enough about the extension to know whether that's the site's fault, but I'm assuming it's not a blacklist type of thing. Improving accessibility might solve it

I like the animations and general appearance, and how snappy it feels. Would prefer if mistakes required a backspace though, and also more than one word at a time. Also unclear if the timer starts when the word is shown or when you start typing.

Very snappy, I like the animations very much (they keep changing, you had fun!). I tried signing in with Google and it didn't work (blank screen). But I've played a lot with these games and I've made my own, and yours is very addictive because feels quick and the feedback is clear. Also I found the jump from the first wave (short words) to the second (very long words), a little too big. I would put an intermediate one in between.

super annoying that for me, backspace just inserts an unknown character instead of working? I correct mistakes with backspace all the time, I don't always type everything perfectly the first time.

The custom keyboard that they have on the web page is pretty small compared to the OS keyboard on iOS, when I use the page on an iPhone.

If I could use the iOS keyboard I think I would get a much better speed. I usually type with fingers from both hands on iOS. With the custom keyboard that they have on the page I can only use one finger from one hand to type.

I think this is a nice challenge. Touch typing was something i was never taught. I definitely have incorrect finger placement for instance.

However I know my overall typing speed is good from the 20 years i've spent behind a keyboard! I actually think the UI is good, with some interesting elements that are not so distracting.

Typing speed tests are always fun. I enjoy https://monkeytype.com/

It’s quite interesting how we are used to our mobile phone keyboards “AI” helping us to type better. Would love to learn more about how that prediction works. I remember my old 2010 HTC phone to be really hard, meanwhile in 2025 it feels like i can type anything without thinking.

As a Dvorak user on a laptop it was confusing seeing a QWERTY keyboard on the screen that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything.

The wpm score is also a bit meaningless when you're typing individual words at a time. My normal typing score is around 120wpm and this was scoring me at 64wpm. It's more about reflexes than about typing speed per se.

I'm finding that not typing a space between words really messes me up

Visually breaks if you try to make the font a reasonable reading size. Why does it disable backspace?

E: It also seems to be registering inputs incorrectly if you type fast enough. On a bad day I clear 140 on monkeytype, can do minutes long tests without any errors.

this is fun but you are killing speed by not showing the next 2-4 words. I'm not even that fast really 85wpm but having to wait for the next word it is leaving a lot of speed on the table for no reason.

Hah, i got 45 wpm and i can't even touch type but just stare at my keyboard pointing two fingers somewhere. Anyway i don't need this skill anymore, god thanks, i can now just use ai to command this machine over voice, faster than touch typists.

To anyone who does keyboard handling, please don't use KeyboardEvent.code like this site does unless you have a reason to ignore all users that use a different keyboard layout: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...

> Warning: This ignores the user's keyboard layout

Keyboard small. Fingers big.

Fun game. I feel like with all the mobile keyboard tapping and LLM-prompting this is going to be a dead skill in a few generations