Type the words and your camel runs. Beat three pacer camels to win.
The camel race is a typing test with an audience. You type 30 everyday words, and your camel moves along its lane as you finish each one. Three pacer camels run beside you at steady speeds: one a little slower than your recent speed, one at it and one a little faster. Your recent speed is the average of your last ten tests in this browser, or 30 words per minute if you have not taken any yet, so every race is close.
You win when you finish before every pacer. Each pacer keeps exactly its speed from start to finish, so a race is lost in the middle as often as at the end: a pause to fix a string of mistakes lets the fast camel through. Wins and finished races unlock camels to race with, and winning at 60 words per minute or faster unlocks the golden one.
Because the race is a real test, you get the same results as any test when it ends: your speed and accuracy, how much time went to fixing mistakes and pauses, and the keys and letter pairs that slowed you down, with a practice drill built from them. A race also counts towards your daily goal and streak.
When you are ready for real opponents, try a live typing race: up to five people on the same words, or ghosts of real past runs at your level when nobody else is around.
Eight words per minute slower than your recent speed, the same, and six faster.
No. Races count as practice; the leaderboards compare standard tests.