ROBOType
A downloadable game
I was getting annoyed with online typing simulators - every time I pressed Ctrl+W, it would close the page. But this is a common shortcut to delete the last word, similar to Ctrl + backspace. Speaking of which - there are a lot of natural text field shortcuts that these typing games don't give you.
The number of collections available right now are somewhat limited. You can add your own by creating new text files in the /collections directory or in subdirectories.
I made this game as a submission to the 2026 Handmade jam. Wasn't able to finish it in the Jam, but I liked the idea so I worked on it a bit longer.
You can view the full sourcecode here: https://github.com/Tejas-H5/ROBOType
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I like it!
As someone who has tried a lot of online typing speed improvement websites, this one has the best foundation.
I like that it is minimal and straight to the point.
I would recommend adding a feature so that when you hit ENTER/RETURN to go to newline, that it would retain the TAB state of the previous line, as this is very common in code editors.
Thanks! I've been thinking about this comment, and I've decided that I won't be adding this feature. The game is largely about typing stuff yourself with 0 assists.
A large take-away I've had from playing this game, is how much (or little) the IDE niceties were actually helping me. For example, it made me realize that actually, I can type pretty fast! Faster than an LSP's autocomplete can recommend me suggestions even. In my own dev environment, I've recently disabled my LSP's autocomplete entirely, keeping the ability to manually trigger completions when I'm completely lost or exploring, and it seems to have improved the speed at which I can type out code by quite a bit. But I do think you need to have sufficiently high typing speed for this to actually be worth it.
You've also come to the realisation that tabbing for indentation is actually kinda annoying, and it's good that IDEs do this for you. I would rather not remove this realisation for the next person that plays the game.