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Direct Answer: Start a free typing race with friends in under a minute. Open TypeDash, create a private room, share the invite link and race up to five people live.
- Start a free typing race with friends in under a minute. Open TypeDash, create a private room, share the invite link and race up to five people live.
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You can start a typing race with friends in under a minute, for free, with no sign-up. Open TypeDash, create a private room, send your friends the invite link, and race the same passage live while every car moves on the track in real time. Up to five people can race at once.
This guide walks through the steps, explains what a race with friends keeps track of, and covers ways to play when your friends are not online at the same time.
Start a typing race with friends in four steps
- Open TypeDash in your browser. There is nothing to download and no form to fill in. The game creates an account for your browser automatically the first time you visit.
- Create a private room. You get your own room with an invite link.
- Share the link. Paste it into WhatsApp, Discord or any chat. Anyone who opens it joins your room straight away.
- Race. Everyone types the same passage at the same time. Synchronised over low-latency WebSockets, you see every car move live, and the results show speed, accuracy and finishing place for everyone.
Then run it back. Most groups play more than one race, and the room remembers who is winning.
| Race Format | Opponents | Sync Style | Best Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Room | 2–5 Friends (Invite Link) | Real-time live track | Game nights, study groups, office breaks |
| Public Match | Up to 5 Global Racers / Bots | Real-time live track | Ranked ladder climbing & level progression |
| Ghost Replay | 1 (Friend's recorded ghost) | Asynchronous | Different schedules or time zones |
| Daily Challenge | Global leaderboard | 1 Attempt per day | Daily consistency & benchmark testing |
What a race with friends keeps track of
Private rooms in TypeDash are friendlies. That means two things.
They do not award ranked points, so playing with friends never changes the public world rankings. The global board stays fair for everyone.
They do keep everything that matters between friends:
- A running series score for the room, so you can play first to five.
- Head to head records. Every pair of people who race together keeps a permanent record of who has beaten whom.
- Your daily streak. A race with friends counts as playing that day, so it keeps your streak alive.
Two players or a full room of five
A typing race works well with just two people. It is a fair, quick duel: same passage, same start, and the faster, more accurate typist wins. With a full room of five, the race becomes chaos in the best way, with combos, nitro boosts flaming across the track and golden words that reward a perfect word with a big bonus. Every player in the room sees when someone fires their nitro.
Before the start you can even rev your engine by mashing keys during the countdown, and send quick reactions mid race.
Race a friend who is not online
You do not have to be online at the same time to compete.
- Beat my ghost. Every finished run can become a share page with a card that unfurls in WhatsApp, Discord or X, showing your numbers. Practice runs come with a link that lets your friend race the exact replay of your run, a ghost car typing exactly as you did.
- The daily challenge. Everyone in the world gets the same passage each day, and only your first finished run counts. Compare your result with your friends' at the end of the day.
Typing races for a class, a team or an office
TypeDash has teams. Create one, share the team invite link, and every ranked point a member earns counts for the team, with your team tag shown next to your name in every lobby. It is an easy way to run a friendly competition across a class, a coding club or an office. Countries work the same way automatically: every point also counts for your flag.
For a class, a good format is a short private race at the start of a lesson, then the daily challenge as homework, with the best scores compared the next day.
Race in other languages or on code
Rooms are matched by language and mode. You can race in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Indonesian or Turkish, or switch to code mode and race on real lines of JavaScript, Python, SQL, Go and more. Developers will find that much harder than prose. Our guide to typing practice for programmers explains why.
Want to win more races against your friends? Read how to type faster and more accurately, a simple 4 week plan. Or try our other game, Gotcha Rush, where you and your friends guess what a piece of code prints. Both are on our free coding games page.
Questions, answered
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Open TypeDash, create a private room, and share the invite link with your friends. When they open the link they join your room, and you all race the same passage live.
Up to five racers can share one race, and every car moves on the track in real time.
It is free and nobody needs to sign up. The game creates an account for each browser automatically, so points, levels and streaks are saved without an email address.
No. Private rooms are friendlies and do not award ranked points, so the world rankings stay fair. They do keep your daily streak alive, record head to head results and keep a series score for the room.
Yes. TypeDash works on phones and can be installed from the browser, and the keyboard opens as the race starts so it is ready at go.
A good one is free, opens in a browser, lets you create a private room with an invite link, and shows everyone's progress live. TypeDash does all of that and adds combos, nitro and golden words to make each race more exciting.
