What is it?
Typing Race turns a speed test into a race. Your car moves for every correct letter; the ghost car moves at a steady speed you pick, from 20 to 80 WPM or your own best. Both start with your first key. Reach the chequered flag first with at least 85% accuracy to win.
Who is it for?
Learners who like a clear target, students pushing past a speed plateau, and teachers who want pupils to race their own best rather than each other.
How to use it
- Choose Ghost speed (WPM): 20, 30, 40, 60, 80 or My best.
- Choose Race length: Short (one passage) or Long (two).
- Start typing: “The race starts with your first key”. The text under the lanes shows how many seconds the ghost needs.
- When you finish you see the result and Race again.
How speed is counted: every 5 correct characters (letters, spaces and punctuation) count as one word, divided by the minutes you typed. 250 correct characters in one minute is 50 WPM. Accuracy is the share of keystrokes that were right.
Worked example
A 250-character passage at 50 WPM takes the ghost 60 seconds. If your speed test says 42 WPM, start with the 40 ghost. Win three times, then try 60. “🏆 You won by 3.4 seconds! Try a faster ghost.” means you’re ready. My best uses your best saved race speed, so it gets harder as you improve.
Errors and how to fix them
- “The ghost won by … seconds. Try again, or pick a slower ghost”: choose a speed about 5 WPM below your test result.
- “You were faster, but accuracy was …%. Races count only with 85% accuracy or more”: slow down slightly and fix errors as you go.
- A letter turns red: you pressed the wrong key. Press Backspace and type the right one. Mistakes you leave in lower your accuracy.
- My best score or past results are gone: results are kept only in this browser on this device. Clearing browsing data, private/incognito mode or another browser or phone starts fresh.
Open the tool: Typing Race
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