A new 30-second test every day at midnight UTC, with the same words for everyone. Your first try counts.
Every day at midnight UTC a new daily challenge starts: a 30-second typing test whose words are picked from the date, so everyone in the world types exactly the same text that day. There is one for each of the twelve languages, from English, French and Spanish to Korean, Vietnamese, Bangla and Hindi with their built-in keyboards. Because the words are the same, the results are fair to compare: a friend's 70 WPM today was typed on the very words you are about to type.
Your first finished try is the one that counts for today's board. Once you have seen the words, later tries are practice: they still earn XP and still count towards your daily goal, but they do not move you up the board. So take a breath before you start, rest your fingers on the home row, and type at a pace you can keep up for the whole 30 seconds.
When you finish, the test is cut into ten parts of three seconds each, and you get a square for each part. A green square means you were at your own average speed or faster in that part; a yellow square means you were slower than your average; a red square means you made a mistake there. Everyone's row is different, even at the same speed, which is what makes them fun to compare. Share them in any chat: the message has your speed, your accuracy and the squares, but never the words, so nobody sees the test before they type it.
Play on consecutive days and you build a daily streak, shown on the challenge page. Signed-in typists with public profiles appear on the day's board, with their squares next to their speed, and the fastest of yesterday is named at the bottom. A quick daily challenge is also the easiest way to keep a typing habit going: thirty seconds is enough to warm up your fingers, see whether yesterday's practice helped, and decide what to practise next. After the test, the results page shows where your time went, your slowest letter pairs, and a practice drill built from them.
At midnight UTC every day. The page shows how long is left until the next one.
Because after the first try you know the words. Later tries are practice: they earn XP and count towards your daily goal, but not for the board.
Each square is a tenth of your test: green at your own average speed or faster, yellow slower, red where you made a mistake.