Skyfall
Letters drift down. Type each one before it lands.
This game paces itself, so everybody who clears a level does it at the level's speed. There is nothing to rank, so it has no board — your keystrokes still count towards your key practice.
How to play
Type the letters before they reach the bottom. A key that hits nothing costs a life.
What it trains
Reaction time on single keys. A letter appears and you have a moment to produce it, which is the narrowest thing typing asks of you and the easiest to measure. Targets are weighted toward the keys you are worst at, so the practice lands where it is worth most, and a wrong key costs a life - the point is choosing the right finger, not covering the keyboard.
How progress works here
Each game has eight levels (Ghost Race has one for each of your best runs, up to five) and they unlock in order, so clearing one opens the next. A level is cleared by meeting its own target rather than by scoring highly, and a level you have beaten stays beaten. Your best score and the highest level you have reached are kept on this device, separately for each language.
Whatever you type here counts as practice. Keystrokes are attributed to the character the game asked for rather than the one that arrived, which is how a run of wrong keys still teaches the model something useful about the key you were reaching for. That is what makes these worth playing rather than merely diverting.
Five of the seven publish to a leaderboard, one board for each language and level, and what they rank is typing speed measured during the game, recomputed on the server from your keystroke timings - never the game score, which is a number a browser asserts and nothing can check. Skyfall and Rhythm Keys have no board: both set your pace themselves, so everybody who clears a level did it at the level speed, and a board would rank the level rather than the player.
The levels
- Home row
- Home row, faster
- Top row too
- Top row, faster
- Whole keyboard
- Whole keyboard, faster
- With numbers
- Downpour