Hardest Typing Game on This Site

Press Start, then type each long falling word before it lands; three landed words end the run.

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40 words of 9 letters.

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25 words fall, and 3 words on the ground end the run. Type a word to clear it. Your best is the most words cleared, and then the better accuracy.

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One level is picked each day, and its words fall in the same order for everyone. Finish a run and a badge counts your days in a row.

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All 240 words

Level 1: nine-letter words 40

  • adventure
  • afternoon
  • beautiful
  • blueprint
  • breakfast
  • butterfly
  • calculate
  • candidate
  • celebrate
  • chocolate
  • community
  • crocodile
  • dangerous
  • departure
  • everybody
  • fireplace
  • furniture
  • generator
  • handshake
  • hurricane
  • invisible
  • landscape
  • lightning
  • moonlight
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Level 1: nine-letter words, continued

  • newspaper
  • orchestra
  • parachute
  • president
  • rectangle
  • sandstorm
  • signature
  • spaceship
  • submarine
  • tangerine
  • telephone
  • telescope
  • timetable
  • tradition
  • vegetable
  • waterfall

Level 2: ten-letter words 40

  • accomplish
  • atmosphere
  • background
  • blackboard
  • calculator
  • collection
  • completely
  • conclusion
  • dictionary
  • difficulty
  • discussion
  • electrical
  • friendship
  • generation
  • greenhouse
  • helicopter
  • illustrate
  • impossible
  • incredible
  • journalist
  • laboratory
  • lighthouse
  • literature
  • management
  • motorcycle
  • mysterious
  • particular
  • photograph
  • playground
  • population
  • restaurant
  • revolution
  • skateboard
  • strawberry
  • technology
  • television
  • themselves
  • thermostat
  • toothbrush
  • tournament

Level 3: words with Q, X or Z 40

  • amazing
  • antique
  • aquarium
  • blizzard
  • bouquet
  • bulldozer
  • citizen
  • complex
  • conquest
  • dazzling
  • equator
  • equipment
  • examine
  • explorer
  • extreme
  • flexible
  • freezing
  • frequent
  • grizzly
  • hexagon
  • horizon
  • magazine
  • mailbox
  • mixture
  • mosquito
  • paradox
  • pretzel
  • puzzled
  • quantity
  • relaxing
  • sandbox
  • saxophone
  • sequence
  • sixteen
  • taxicab
  • textbook
  • toolbox
  • tranquil
  • trapeze
  • wizards

Level 4: words with a doubled letter 40

  • barefoot
  • bassoon
  • bookshelf
  • broccoli
  • buffalo
  • bulletin
  • cartoon
  • channel
  • cheetah
  • chopping
  • cinnamon
  • classic
  • cottage
  • dribbling
  • eggplant
  • feedback
  • flannel
  • footpath
  • goodness
  • gorilla
  • hammock
  • happiness
  • lettuce
  • mattress
  • messenger
  • occasion
  • opposite
  • parallel
  • pineapple
  • rabbits
  • raspberry
  • ribbons
  • shuttle
  • spaghetti
  • toothpick
  • trillion
  • vanilla
  • woodland
  • wrapping
  • written

Level 5: one finger jumps two rows 40

  • academy
  • anatomy
  • balcony
  • bracelet
  • branches
  • breaking
  • bridges
  • brushes
  • ceremony
  • costume
  • decimal
  • destiny
  • director
  • doubtful
  • dynamic
  • electric
  • entrance
  • garbage
  • genuine
  • gymnast
  • harmony
  • harvest
  • marbles
  • multiply
  • mustard
  • mystery
  • mythical
  • necklace
  • nuclear
  • numeral
  • obtained
  • peanuts
  • premium
  • selected
  • servant
  • sunlight
  • sunrise
  • synonym
  • thunder
  • turbine

Level 6: a mix of all five 40

  • adjective
  • anonymous
  • appearance
  • banquet
  • basketball
  • bookkeeper
  • chessboard
  • chimpanzee
  • classroom
  • coffeepot
  • collected
  • earthquake
  • exhibition
  • exterior
  • jellyfish
  • mahogany
  • notebooks
  • numerous
  • passenger
  • pollution
  • quizzes
  • quotient
  • recycle
  • reputation
  • resolution
  • rhyming
  • satellite
  • secretary
  • staircase
  • successful
  • suggestion
  • symphony
  • tattered
  • timekeeper
  • transition
  • trumpets
  • wallpaper
  • waltzing
  • yellowish
  • zoology

How this list was compiled: Six sets of 40 words chosen for a falling-words typing game and checked on 2026-10-02. Every word has 7 to 10 letters and is in the ENABLE word list (172,820 words in the copy at https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt, checked 2026-10-02), which its compilers released into the public domain; the release notice is quoted at http://wordlist.aspell.net/scowl_v1-readme/ (checked 2026-10-01). Each level keeps its rule: Level 1 words have nine letters and Level 2 words ten, none with Q, X or Z; every Level 3 word has a Q, an X or a Z; every Level 4 word has the same letter twice running; every Level 5 word has two letters running that one finger types on the top row and the bottom row of a QWERTY keyboard (such as C then E, U then N, or B then R), with the finger and row of each letter taken from the standard touch-typing chart at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing (checked 2026-10-01); Level 6 is 40 further words, each of which fits at least one of the five rules and at least eight of which fit each rule. No word is used twice, no word is in the site's children's falling-words game, none is a word of the site's hardest typing test, and none is an item of any other list on the site. Anything rude was left out, and any word that British and American English spell differently. Licence: own work (a selection of words from the public-domain ENABLE word list, https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt)

How it works

This is the hardest typing game on this site: falling words of seven to ten letters, such as saxophone and helicopter. Type each one before it lands. In More options, Fast under Speed cuts every word's time to six tenths.

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How a run goes

A first visit opens on Level 1. Press Start for 25 words, at most three on the pad at once. A wrong key counts against your accuracy. A word that reaches the ground is a strike, and the third ends the run. The Level menu and the Speed buttons are under More options.

What each level is hard at

Levels 1 and 2 are nine-letter and ten-letter words. Every Level 3 word holds a Q, X or Z. Level 4 words double a letter, as in bookshelf. Level 5 sends one finger from the top row to the bottom row or back, as E then C in necklace. Level 6 mixes all five.

  • No two words on the pad start with the same letter, so your first key picks the word.
  • Backspace or Escape lets go of a word you have started.

Questions and answers

What makes this the hardest typing game here?

The words. Each has seven to ten letters, and ten is the longest the game accepts. The levels pick out long words, rare letters, doubled letters and row jumps. The claim covers this site only.

Are there other difficult typing games on this site?

One, built for children: typing practice games is the same falling words game on words of three to eight letters. No word is on both pages, and no word here is shorter than seven letters.

How fast is Fast?

On Fast a word gets six tenths of its Normal falling time, and on Gentle 1.6 times. At the same point in a run a longer word falls for longer, and words fall a little faster as a run goes on.

Are the words real?

Yes. All 240 are in ENABLE, a public domain English word list, and every level keeps its rule. Anything rude was left out.