Typing games · Arcade
Outpace
A three-minute run against the night, set to your own typing speed. Every number in it is a typing number: you go further by typing faster and cleaner.
Outpace is made for a keyboard. On a phone or tablet, tap the words to bring one up.
How Outpace works
The night follows your comet through the text at a pace set from your usual speed, the middle of your latest rounds: 80% of it in the first sky and 6% faster in each of the ten. So a 20 WPM typist and a 150 WPM typist face the same run, and as practice makes you faster, the night speeds up with you. The only way to go further is to type better.
Every right key moves you on. Each slip lets the night lunge, so accuracy counts as much as speed. Glowing words carry one of your weak keys or slow key pairs from your typing habits: type them without a slip to push the night back. When the night catches you, you lose one of your three lights, and the run ends with the third, or after sky 10.
A run takes about three minutes. If you haven’t typed here before, a short warm-up measures your speed first. Every run counts as practice: it goes into your daily goal and your habits like any round, and the results show how your weak keys did against your usual.
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