Whack-a-Mole — typing game
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Achievements
0 / 18Finish your first run.
Hit a 10 combo.
Destroy 25 words in one run.
Reach the Storm zone.
Hit a 25 combo.
Average 60 WPM across a run.
Finish a run at 95% accuracy or better.
Reach the Ember zone.
Play five runs.
Reach the Frost zone.
Hit a 50 combo.
Reach Storm without losing a single life.
Average 90 WPM across a run.
Reach the Neon zone.
Reach the final zone.
Hit a 100 combo.
Finish a run of 40+ words without a single mistyped key.
Score 5,000 in a single run.
How to play Whack-a-Mole
Nine holes, never moving
The board is always the same three by three. Learn it once and you never hunt for a mole again — you only react to one.
One letter, one key
Every mole wears a single letter and no two wear the same one at the same time. Press it and that mole is gone.
They do not wait
A ring closes around a mole that has been up too long. Let it finish and the mole escapes, and that costs a life.
What it trains
Where the keys are
Nine fixed holes and one letter each means every round is a drill on locating a single key and nothing else. No words, no sentences, no reading ahead — just the letter and your hand.
Reacting instead of hunting
A mole is up for a couple of seconds. That is long enough to press a key you know and far too short to go looking for one, which is exactly the pressure that stops you glancing down.
The keys you actually avoid
Letters are drawn evenly rather than by how common they are in English, so Q, Z and P come up as often as E. Ordinary typing practice almost never makes you use them.
Questions
- Is this whack-a-mole typing game free?
- Yes, completely. There is no account, no email and no download — it runs in the browser and your scores are stored only on your own device.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes. Tap mode turns the letters off and lets you tap the moles directly, so the game is playable on a touch screen without a keyboard. Use the mode button in the top bar to switch.
- Is it good for learning the keyboard?
- It is built for exactly that. Each mole shows one letter, so you practise finding a single key under time pressure rather than typing whole words — which is the part beginners find hardest.
- How is it different from other typing games?
- Most typing games ask you to type falling words, which rewards reading ahead. This one gives you one letter at a time in a fixed grid, so it trains key positions and reaction rather than reading speed.
- Is there a time limit?
- There is no clock on the game as a whole. Each mole has its own timer — a ring closes around it — and letting one escape costs a life. The run ends when you run out of lives.