How to play
- Press any key to start. Bubbles begin rising from the bottom of the board.
- Type the word inside a bubble. The letters you have typed are highlighted, and finishing the word pops it.
- Pop bubbles one after another without a mistake to build your combo. A longer combo multiplies every score.
- Let a bubble reach the top and you lose a life. Three lives and the game ends.
- Press Escape at any time to pause, and again to carry on.
Four ways to play
- Classic uses everyday English words, starting short and growing longer as the level climbs.
- My weak keys reads the characters you have been missing in your tests and lessons on this site, and fills the bubbles with words loaded with those characters. Take a test first and this mode has something to work from.
- Job words uses the kind of vocabulary employer tests contain, such as dispatch, clerical, medical and accounts terms.
- Numbers drops in figures, reference codes and short addresses, which is what a data entry test is mostly made of.
What makes this bubble typing game different
Nearly every bubble typing game online draws from one fixed list of words, so everybody practises the same thing whatever their actual problem is. This one is attached to a typing test site, which means it already knows which characters you keep getting wrong, and it can build the bubbles out of them. The mistakes you make in the game are added to that same list, so a session here feeds your weak-key practice rather than sitting apart from it.
The second difference is the word lists. If you are preparing for a job test, generic words are poor practice for the material you will actually be given. The job mode uses the vocabulary those tests contain, and the numbers mode covers the figures and reference codes that make up a data entry test.
Tips for a higher score
- Take the highest bubble first. It is the one about to cost you a life.
- Commit to a word rather than checking each letter. Hesitation costs more than a typo.
- Keep your hands on the home row. Chasing bubbles with one finger falls apart at higher levels.
- Protect the combo. A steady run of correct words scores far more than fast typing with mistakes.
- If one letter keeps breaking your run, switch to weak-key mode and let the game feed it to you.
Questions about the bubble typing game
It is a typing game where words float up the screen inside bubbles and you pop each one by typing the word it carries before it reaches the top. It trains the same thing a typing test measures, which is typing a whole word accurately without looking down, but the rising bubbles add a time limit that makes you commit to the word rather than hesitating over it.
Yes, and there is nothing to download. It runs in your browser, and a free account is what keeps your scores between sessions.
Most bubble games draw from one fixed word list for everybody. This one can build its bubbles from the characters you personally mistype, taken from the mistakes recorded during your tests and lessons on this site, so the game drills your own weak keys. It also has a mode that uses the vocabulary employer typing tests actually contain, such as dispatch and clerical words, and a numbers mode for data entry practice.
It helps with one part of it. A game rewards fast recognition and committing to a whole word, which is useful. It does not teach finger position, and the pressure can encourage sloppy habits if it is all you do. Use it alongside timed tests and the guided lessons rather than instead of them.
It will run, and the on-screen keyboard will work, but the game is built for a physical keyboard. An on-screen keyboard adds delay and prediction, so your score will not reflect your real typing speed.
No, and that is deliberate. Game scores are kept out of your test history, your progress charts, the leaderboard and any certificate, because a game is not a measured typing test. The one thing the game does feed back is the keys you mistyped, which are added to your weak-key list so that weak-key practice knows about them.
Measure your speed properly
A game score is not a typing speed. When you want a figure you can quote, take a timed test, which measures net WPM and accuracy over a set duration the way an employer test does.