Daily typing challenge
One quote, the same for everyone, every day. Type it as many times as you like and your best run goes on today's board. The challenge resets at midnight UTC, and the countdown above tells you how long you have left.
Again, it much assists a prince to set unusual examples in internal affairs, similar to those which are related of Messer Bernabo da Milano, who, when he had the opportunity, by any one in civil life doing some extraordinary thing, either good or bad, would take some method of rewarding or punishing him, which would be much spoken about. And a prince ought, above all things, always endeavour in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man.Board
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Oct 31 nobody ranked; the board stayed open all day.
How the daily challenge works
Each day we pick one passage from a public-domain book. One recent pick was a line from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 115 characters and 22 words long. The next might be Austen, Dickens or Conan Doyle. Because everyone gets the same text, a score on the daily board means the same thing for every person on it, which isn't true of a random word test.
You get unlimited attempts. Only your best counts.
To make the board, a run needs at least 90% accuracy. A sloppy 120 WPM doesn't beat a clean 80 here, and that's on purpose. Each entry is checked the same way as every leaderboard result on the site: we recompute it from the keystroke log before it's ranked, so the number on the board is the number you actually typed. How we keep the boards fair.
Streaks
Finish a run on a given day and your streak carries on. It doesn't have to be a fast run or a ranked one, just a finished one. Miss a day and it starts again from zero.
We kept the rule that simple deliberately. A streak should get you to sit down at the keyboard for a minute, not make you anxious about a number. If you want to know why we built it that way, there's a short piece on daily streaks without burning out.
Guest or signed in?
You can play as a guest and see your speed straight away. To appear on the board and keep a streak, you'll need to sign in. There's no password, just a link sent to your email.
Why a daily quote works as practice
A random word test is good for measuring raw speed. A real sentence is different: capitals, commas, the odd semicolon, words you don't type every day. Doing one real passage a day, properly, is a steady way to get better at the kind of typing you do at work. It also takes about a minute.
Every quote in the library also has its own all-time records. Pick any of them on the quotes page to type it and see how you stack up against everyone who has typed it, or head to the leaderboards for the timed tests.