Hourly Typing Contest
Most typing scores are private. You take a test alone, get a number, and have no idea whether it's good — because nobody else typed the same words under the same clock.
TypeWars fixes that by running a contest every hour where everyone gets the identical passage. Enter with a 100-coin ticket, take up to 3 attempts of sixty seconds, and when the hour ends the board settles. Same text, same clock, real ranking.
How an hour works
- 01
Enter the current hour
A ticket costs 100 TL Coins and enters you into the contest running right now. Every hour is its own separate contest with its own board.
- 02
Type the hour's passage
Everyone entering this hour gets the same passage — not a similar one, the same one. Each attempt is 60 seconds against that shared text.
- 03
Use up to 3 attempts
You get 3 runs within the hour and only your best score counts, so one unlucky start doesn't end your contest.
- 04
Ranks settle at the top of the hour
When the hour rolls over, every entrant is ranked by their best corrected speed and the board is final. Then a new passage, a new hour, a new contest.
What the hour pays
The top three ranks win coins outright. Ranks 4 to 10 get their ticket back rather than a prize — worth being clear about, since finishing eighth means the hour cost you nothing, not that you won something.
Only the hour's winner earns a certificate. With one issued per hour and no more, it stays worth having.
TypeWars, answered
What is TypeWars?
TypeWars is an hourly global typing contest. Everyone who enters a given hour types the same passage, ranks are settled when the hour ends, and the fastest typists take the pot. A new contest starts every hour, all day.
- One shared passage per hour, identical for every entrant worldwide.
- A ticket costs 100 TL Coins and covers up to 3 attempts.
- Only your best attempt of the hour counts toward your rank.
- Contests run on GMT hours, so the schedule is the same everywhere.
Why does everyone type the same passage?
Because otherwise the scores aren't comparable. Typing speed varies a lot with the text — common short words are far quicker than unfamiliar long ones — so two people typing different passages aren't really being measured against each other.
- A shared passage removes the biggest source of unfairness in typing comparisons.
- It also removes rehearsal: nobody has seen this hour's text before it starts.
- Same text plus same clock is what turns a personal score into an actual ranking.
- It's the same reason athletics measures everyone on the same track on the same day.
What can you win in TypeWars?
The top three ranks win TL Coins — 5,000, 2,000 and 1,000 — and ranks 4 to 10 get their 100-coin ticket refunded. Only the hour's winner earns a certificate.
- 1st: 5,000 TL Coins and a verifiable certificate.
- 2nd and 3rd: 2,000 and 1,000 TL Coins.
- Ranks 4–10: your ticket back, so the hour costs you nothing.
- Outside the top ten, the ticket is spent — that's what funds the pot.
How many times can you enter each hour?
One ticket per hour, and it covers 3 attempts. Your best score is the one that ranks, so the attempts exist to absorb a bad start rather than to let anyone buy their way up the board.
- You can't buy extra attempts or enter the same hour twice.
- All 3 attempts use the same passage, so later runs are on familiar text.
- Only the best result counts; the others are discarded.
- Miss an hour and nothing is lost — there's another contest starting shortly.
Is TypeWars free to play?
Yes, in the sense that matters: tickets are paid in TL Coins, which are earned by typing anywhere on TypeLords and cannot be bought with money. No amount of spending gets anyone a better position on the board.
- Coins come from practice, tests, academy grades and career sessions.
- There is no purchase path for coins, so contests can't be bought into.
- TypeLords Pro doubles coin earnings but confers no advantage inside a contest.
- Every entrant faces the same passage, clock and scoring regardless of plan.
Need coins for a ticket? TypePractice and TypeTest earn them on every run. On why a shared clock is what makes a score mean anything, the typing game where the score is real makes the argument at length.
More ways to type on TypeLords
An hour is one format. There are shorter fights and longer ones.