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Type!

Short words fall down three columns. Tap a word's column to type its next letter — the keycaps at the bottom show what's due. Finish each word before it lands. 3 landed words and the page jams.

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Type — Free Online Falling Word Tap-Typing Reflex Game

Type! is a typing game with no keyboard required. Short words — CAT, BOLT, NOVA — drop down three columns toward a glowing platen line, and each tap on a column types the next letter of the word falling there. The letter you owe is always lit in gold on the word itself and mirrored on a keycap at the bottom of its column, so your eyes never have to leave the action. Finish every letter and the word bursts for a bonus worth its length plus three; let a word touch the line and you lose one of three hearts. Three landed words and the machine jams — game over. It's free to play in any browser, mobile or desktop, with nothing to install.

How to play

Tap anywhere in a column to type one letter of the lowest word in that column (on desktop the 1, 2, 3 keys or arrow keys work too). A three-letter word needs three taps, a four-letter word four — you can hammer the same column as fast as you like, and tapping an empty column costs nothing. Points trickle in over time while you play, every typed letter adds one, and finished words pay a bonus. Words fall faster and arrive closer together the longer you last, and eventually two or three columns fill at once.

Tips

Burst-tap: the moment a word spawns alone, rattle off all its letters immediately instead of pacing yourself — a cleared column is a safe column. When two words fall together, finish the lower one first even if the higher one is shorter; height is the only clock that matters. Four-letter words are worth more but take an extra beat, so late in a run treat any fresh four-letter word as your top priority before the screen gets crowded.

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