Type Invaders
Type Invaders is a free typing game built like a 1978 arcade cabinet. Words drop out of the sky and you shoot them by typing them. Let too many reach the ground and your base is gone.
Typing a word's first letter locks your gun onto it, and every letter after that fires a shot. Tab drops the lock if you aimed at the wrong word. Escape pauses.
The game keeps a private record of which letters you personally fumble and quietly serves them more often, so the practice bends toward your weak fingers instead of marching through a generic lesson plan. Nothing is uploaded. It all lives in your browser.
The word packs
Seven packs, picked with the arrow keys or the number row on the title screen.
- SPACE CADET
- Classic arcade sci-fi vocabulary. The default run.
- HOME ROW
- ASDF and JKL drills that keep your fingers on the anchors.
- SIGHT WORDS
- Early reading words for new typists.
- CODE CADET
- Programming vocabulary for future hackers.
- LITTLE LEARNERS
- Single letters and first words, for the smallest pilots.
- FLAG INVADERS
- Earth strikes back. Name the flag before its letters give it away.
- CONSTELLATION INVADERS
- All 88 constellations, drawn from real star positions.
Flags and constellations
The last two packs replace the alien saucers with earth ships that tow a picture: a national flag, or a constellation drawn from its actual stars. The name hangs underneath as a row of dots.
Letters reveal as the ship descends, slowly at first and faster as it gets dangerous, so recall gets a fair chance before the hints arrive. The first letter is always revealed last, because that letter is how you lock on. A hint that handed it over would be doing the work for you.
Recognize a picture early and you get the scholar bonus. Recognize it while it is still pure dots, and you have genuinely learned the thing.
School
When a run ends, the game looks at what actually went wrong. A flag you named cold three times and then fumbled once in the chaos of wave six does not get sent to class. One you crashed into twice does.
School mode is penalty free: wrong keys cost nothing and the letter you are stuck on lights up. Press S on the title screen to study the ones that keep beating you, or F after a game over to review that run.