Typing Shooter
A free typing practice game — pop the chickens and fish by typing their words!
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Chickens fall from the top and fish swim in from the side, each carrying a word. Type the word and the thing carrying it dies. Let one reach the wall and it costs you a life, and you have three. That is the entire game, and it runs in your browser with nothing to install.
How it works
- Type the word on an enemy to destroy it. You do not need to select a target first — we match what you type against every word on screen.
- Enemies arrive faster and move quicker the longer you survive, and the ramp is driven by both time elapsed and how many you have killed, so playing well makes it harder.
- Three lives. An enemy that reaches the wall takes one. At zero the run ends.
- Type two words back to back without pausing and both can die on the same keystroke, because we keep matching from the front of your input buffer until nothing else fits.
At the end you get a score, plus your WPM and CPM measured from your first keystroke.
Your score is not your typing speed
This surprises people, so it is worth being plain about. The score is a running total, and each kill is worth the length of the word multiplied by how fast the thing carrying it was moving. A long word on a quick fish pays several times what a short word on a slow chicken pays. So the score rewards surviving deep into the run, where words are longer and everything is faster — it is a survival score wearing a typing costume.
Which means a careful typist who lasts a long time can comfortably out-score a faster typist who dies early, and that is working as intended. If you want to know how fast you actually type, look at the WPM figure, not the score.
And treat even that WPM with some suspicion. It is measured while you are under time pressure, choosing between targets, and watching things fly at a wall. That is not the same task as copying a paragraph, and it will not give you the same number.
What is a normal typing speed?
The best number to anchor on comes from a study of 168,000 people typing on their own keyboards: average copy-typing speed was around 52 words per minute. Composition — writing your own sentences rather than reproducing someone else's — is markedly slower, somewhere in the 19 to 32 WPM range, because thinking costs time that typing does not.
Ignore the 100+ WPM averages you will see quoted on typing-enthusiast sites. Those come from people who chose to spend their evenings on a typing test, which is not a sample of humanity — it is a sample of people who are good at typing. Fifty-two is the honest benchmark for an ordinary adult, and if you are near it you are entirely normal.
Typing in your own script
The word list runs in eleven languages and you switch it independently of the site language, so you can read the interface in English and drill Korean, or the other way round. This works because we listen to the browser's composition events rather than raw keystrokes — which is the difference between a typing game that handles Hangul and Japanese properly and one that produces garbage the moment you touch an IME. Most browser typing games are the second kind.
Frequently asked questions
Is this typing game free?
Yes, completely, and there is no account. Nothing you type leaves your browser except the score, and only if you choose to put a name on the leaderboard.
How is typing speed measured?
WPM is characters divided by five, divided by the minutes elapsed since your first keystroke — the standard convention, where a "word" is defined as five characters rather than an actual word. CPM is the same thing without that division. Both clocks start when you first type, not when the game starts, so time spent staring at the screen before you commit does not count against you.
Why is my score high but my WPM low?
Because they measure different things. The score is weighted by word length and enemy speed and rewards surviving; WPM is just characters over time. A long, careful run produces a big score and an ordinary WPM, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Is a WPM of 50 good?
It is normal, which is a more useful thing to be told. The largest study we know of, covering 168,000 people, found an average copy-typing speed of around 52 WPM. If you are somewhere near that you type like a person who uses a computer. The very high numbers you see online come from self-selected typing enthusiasts and are not a fair comparison.
Which languages can I practise in?
Eleven, switchable in-game from the language selector, independent of whatever language the site interface is in. Korean, Japanese and Chinese work properly rather than breaking on the input method, which is not something we can take for granted in a browser game.
Does playing this make me a faster typist?
It will make you faster at this. Whether it transfers to typing an email is a question we cannot answer honestly, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it definitely does is force you to type without looking down, because if you look down something hits the wall.