How to Use TypingBIRDS

TypingBIRDS works differently depending on who you are — a student practicing on their own, a student in a school's class, a teacher running games for their students, or a school admin setting everything up. This guide covers all four, plus every major feature along the way.

Quick Start (Anyone)

  1. Go to TypingBIRDS — it opens straight into Lessons.
  2. Pick a lesson and just start typing — no sign-up needed to try it.
  3. Want to race instead? Head to Race and pick a mode from the Race menu.

Practicing as a guest works fully — your progress is saved right in your browser. Sign in with Google any time from the profile menu (top right) if you want that progress to follow you to another device.

Practicing Lessons

  1. Open Practice — it defaults to the Lessons tab.
  2. Each lesson focuses on a specific set of keys, building up from the home row.
  3. Finish a lesson to see your stars: 1★ for finishing, 2★ for hitting the accuracy target, 3★ for hitting both the accuracy and WPM targets.
  4. Pass every lesson at 2★ or better to unlock a downloadable certificate.

Other Practice modes — Timed Test, Paragraphs, Quotes, Numbers, Symbols, Random Words, and Custom Text — all track your best WPM, accuracy, and session count on your Dashboard.

Racing Birds

  1. Open Race and choose a mode, language, and difficulty.
  2. Just start typing — your bird moves down the track as you type correctly.
  3. You're racing two AI birds by default, and your own ghost once you have a personal best on that passage.
  4. Finish the passage (or run out the clock in timed modes) to see your results.

A race with no keystrokes for about 45 seconds, or one you navigate away from mid-run, ends on its own with nothing recorded — so an abandoned attempt never counts against you.

Live Races (Real Players)

Live Races are scheduled multiplayer races against real people — a new one starts every hour, around the clock, in both English and Punjabi:

  1. Open Live Races (there's also a banner on the Race page, and a corner reminder appears shortly before each race).
  2. Sign in first — live races need a real identity: a Google account, or your student login code if you're in a class.
  3. Hit Reserve my seat on the next race. Each race holds up to 10 players, and every account gets 4 race entries per day — you can reserve seats in upcoming races in advance from the schedule.
  4. Be on the page when the countdown ends — the race room opens 60 seconds before start, and the text unlocks for everyone at the exact same instant. Nobody presses "start"; the clock does.
  5. Type the passage: in live races your cursor only advances on the correct character, so accuracy is the whole game. First to the end of the text wins.

Results show a podium and full standings right after the race, along with a one-tap reserve button for the next one. Reserved but didn't make it? The race runs without you — and note that cancelling a seat doesn't refund the day's entry, so reserve races you plan to show up for. You can also watch any race in progress as a spectator, no seat needed.

Word-Rain

A faster-paced, arcade-style typing game — words fall from the top of the screen and you have to type each one before it hits the ground:

  1. Open Word-Rain and pick your language.
  2. Type any falling word, correctly, to clear it — a bird flies in to "catch" it and it disappears.
  3. You start with 3 lives; a word that reaches the ground costs one life. Lose all 3 and it's game over.
  4. Clearing words back-to-back without losing a life builds a combo — x2, x3, and x4 ("FIRE 🔥") multipliers kick in as your streak grows, so staying alive matters as much as typing fast.
  5. Levels ramp up the falling speed and word count as you go, with a top-scores leaderboard for each level.

Word-Rain now supports six languages — English, Bahasa Indonesia, Kiswahili, Punjabi (both AnmolLipi and Raavi/InScript), and Hindi (Mangal/Unicode InScript) — pick one from the language buttons before starting (Raavi and Hindi need a physical keyboard, so those two are hidden on mobile). Pause, mute, and quit buttons sit at the top of the game area, and a corner widget shows the current daily, weekly, and monthly top scores — sign in with Google to have your own best show up there.

Joining a Class (Students)

Students don't sign themselves up — a teacher or school admin adds you to a class first, and hands you a personal login code:

  1. Open the profile menu (top right) and choose "Log in with student code" — no email or Google account needed.
  2. Type the code you were given (6 digits + 1 letter) — it's yours permanently, so save it somewhere safe.
  3. You're straight in — your class(es), history, and stats all come back automatically, from any computer, any time you use that same code.

If your school runs multiple games under one class (say, a Practice version and a Race version of the same class), the same code usually works to log into whichever one your teacher points you to — check My Classes after logging in to see everything you're part of.

For Schools (Admins)

Schools running TypingBIRDS for multiple teachers use the School Admin dashboard to set everything up centrally:

  1. Sign in with Google and open School Admin — the first Google account to do this for a school registers it and becomes its Admin.
  2. Fill in the School Profile (name, address, contact) — a few other sections stay locked until this is done.
  3. Add teachers from the Teachers tab — either generate a Teacher ID + password yourself, or invite a teacher by email so they sign in with their own Google account instead.
  4. Create classes from the Classes tab and assign each one to a teacher — these are the "main" classes (e.g. "6th-A") that a school's roster is organized around.
  5. Add students from the Add Students tab (type a list or upload a CSV) — each student gets their own personal login code, ready to print and hand out.

An Admin can invite a co-admin (School Profile → "+ Invite a co-admin") so the school never depends on a single Google account, and can reassign a class to a different teacher at any time from the Classes tab.

Setting Up a Class (Teachers)

Teachers no longer create a class from scratch — a school admin assigns you a class (or you might be an independent teacher managing your own, outside a school). Either way, you then set up the actual games your students play:

  1. Sign in — with the Teacher ID + password your admin gave you, or with Google if you were invited that way — then open "Create Game" from the profile menu.
  2. Choose which of your assigned classes this game is for, then set its language, difficulty, and mode (Classic, Timed, Sprint, Sudden Death, or Word Rain).
  3. Every student already in that class joins the new game automatically, keeping their existing login code — nothing new to print or hand out.
  4. Open Teacher Dashboard → My Classes to see a live roster for any game: every student's average WPM, accuracy, and session count, tracked separately for Practice, Race, and Word Rain.
  5. From there, download a Weekly Report (PDF), a printable sheet of student codes, or use "Sync from Main Class" to pull in any students your admin added after the game was created.

See our full classroom typing guide for lesson-planning ideas.

Your Personal Dashboard

Open Dashboard from the top nav to see everything about your own typing in one place:

  • Lessons & Certificate — your progress and current certificate status.
  • Weak-Key Heatmap — exactly which keys you mistype most, with a one-tap drill to fix them.
  • Drill Progress — your best WPM and accuracy per practice mode.
  • Certificate History — every certificate you've earned, with the date and speed.
  • My Classes — every class or game you're part of, with a shortcut straight into that class's race.

Certificates

Pass all 8 lessons at 2★ or better to unlock a certificate — type your name and download it as a PNG. Each certificate you earn raises the bar by 5 WPM for the next one, so if you earned your first at 25 WPM, the next asks for 30. Redo any lesson from your Dashboard to chase the next tier.

Themes & Sound

The profile menu (top right) lets you set a scenery theme (Auto, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, or Night) and a weather condition (Auto/live weather, Clear, Cloudy, Rainy, Snowy, or Storm). The sound icon in the header mutes typing sounds if you'd rather practice quietly.

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