Key rush: the typing reaction test

A short sequence of keys appears and then vanishes. Type it back in order, on your keyboard or on the buttons on screen. One wrong key ends the run.

Everyone gets the same sequence today, and it changes at midnight UTC, so the score means the same thing for everybody.

Yes. The same eight keys are buttons on screen, sized for a finger. A keyboard-only game would be a game that does not exist for half the people who open it.

Longer. The sequence grows from three keys to seven, and the time on screen is a budget per key rather than a fixed total: it starts at 420 milliseconds per key and settles at 260.

The first version of that table did the opposite and shortened the total time, which worked out to 143 milliseconds per key in the last band. That is below the time a person needs to take in a single symbol, so it would not have been harder, it would have been unreadable.

Because holding a list in your head tops out at around seven items, and a ladder that keeps growing past it stops measuring anything. From there the run only ends when you slip.

No. The shared square carries one mark per round you cleared and never the keys themselves, because today's sequence is the same one everybody else is still playing.

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