RaccoonType — Minimalist, High-Performance Typing Platform
A minimalistic, high-performance customizable typing platform. Measure your WPM, race friends live in multiplayer lobbies, compete on ranked ELO ladders, and master programming syntax.
RaccoonType — Minimalist, High-Performance Typing Platform
A minimalistic, high-performance customizable typing platform. Measure your WPM, race friends live in multiplayer lobbies, compete on ranked ELO ladders, and master programming syntax.
Analyzes your last 40 typing sessions to build an 8-category Typing DNA profile — speed, accuracy, consistency, punctuation, numbers, capitals, transitions, endurance — and generates personalized priority drills to break your plateaus.
Diagnostics without practice are just trivia. Turn your Typing DNA insights into permanent muscle memory:
Isolate friction letters and tricky bigrams in specialized touch-typing drills.
Validate your speed gain on the standard 60-second sprint benchmark.
Put your new accuracy to the test against live opponents on the seasonal ELO ladder.
A traditional typing test is a passive stopwatch: it gives you a single WPM number, lets you repeat the same errors, and provides zero guidance on how to break through your speed ceiling.
An AI Typing Coach treats typing as a high-precision biomechanical skill. By recording your keystroke flight times, key-release durations, transition bigrams, and error clusters across 40 sessions, RaccoonType builds a comprehensive 8-Category Typing DNA profile:
Maximum velocity on comfortable home-row patterns vs. overall pace.
Ratio of correct keypresses to backspaces; minimizing error cascades.
Standard deviation of keystroke intervals; steady metronome cadence.
Inter-key flight time between awkward finger combinations (e.g. `tr`, `br`).
Commas, periods, quotes, and semicolons without losing forward momentum.
Top-row finger reaches without looking down at the physical keyboard.
Opposite-hand Shift key coordination without hitching keystroke timing.
Ability to sustain 90%+ of peak burst speed across 3, 5, or 10-minute runs.
Most typists do not plateau because their hands are slow; they plateau because 2 or 3 “friction keys” (often `b`, `p`, `x`, or pinky reaches) cause micro-hesitations. A 120ms pause on a weak letter shatters rhythm, forces the visual cortex to intervene, and leads directly to typos on the following two characters.
Instead of forcing you to retype generic paragraphs, RaccoonType’s priority engine synthesizes personalized adaptive drills that densely pack your trouble letters and bigrams into high-frequency patterns, rewiring muscle memory in 2–3 short sessions.
Many typists believe that typing faster simply means moving fingers more aggressively. In reality, errors carry an immense penalty:
A typist cruising steadily at 70 WPM with 99% accuracy will easily outscore a frantic typist bursting at 95 WPM with 91% accuracy. RaccoonType’s coach trains you to eliminate backspacing by locking cadence at 98% accuracy first.
Typing Practice
Targeted touch-typing drills, weak key isolation, and bigram rhythm exercises.
Typing Test
Free online typing test across 15s, 30s, 60s, and words modes to benchmark your WPM.
Ranked ELO Ladder
1v1 competitive matchmaking. Climb from Bronze to Grandmaster on the seasonal ladder.
1 Minute Typing Test
The global 60-second typing speed sprint benchmark with WPM, raw WPM, and accuracy breakdown.
3 Minute Typing Test
180-second stamina and rhythm evaluation favored by corporate employment screenings.
5 Minute Typing Test
Official 300-second civil service and government job certification test.
The AI Coach analyzes your last 40 typing sessions to build an 8-category Typing DNA profile (speed, accuracy, consistency, punctuation, numbers, capitals, transitions, endurance), an error heatmap across the QWERTY layout, and a list of weak bigrams. It then generates personalized priority drills targeting your lowest-scoring dimensions.
The dashboard works for guests using local session history. AI-powered custom drill generation (LLM-backed personalized topics) requires a free sign-in.
Typing DNA is an 8-pillar performance profile built from your last 40 typing sessions. It measures what you type (speed, accuracy, consistency), how you type under different demands (punctuation, numbers, capitals, transitions between keys), and how long you sustain it (endurance). Each pillar is scored 0–100 and classified as strong, average, or weak. The coach uses these scores to pinpoint your biggest bottleneck, generate targeted drills for your weakest keys and bigrams, and track your 7-day trend so you can see whether a specific intervention is working.
Yes. Signed-in users can request custom drills on any topic — for example 'semicolons', 'phone numbers', 'JavaScript async/await', or 'medical terminology'. The system generates a 60-second targeted practice session.
Most users see measurable improvement in their weakest dimension within 2–3 focused drill sessions. The AI Coach tracks your 7-day trend and recommends the next best session based on your current rate of change.
Consistency measures how even your rhythm is across a test — steady keystrokes with few bursts and stalls. Two typists at 70 WPM are not equal if one types evenly and the other alternates sprints with corrections: the consistent one converts speed into ranked wins. The coach scores consistency 0–100 from your per-second pace and prescribes rhythm drills when it lags your raw speed.