Common questions about Type of Faith, from your first lesson to the leaderboard.
Touch typing means typing without looking at the keyboard. Each finger is responsible for a fixed set of keys, and with enough practice your fingers find them automatically, the same way a musician doesn't look at the frets. You stop thinking about the keyboard and start thinking about what you're writing.
Most self-taught typists hit a ceiling at some point. Not because of any lack of effort, but because the habits they picked up early don't scale. Touch typing replaces those habits with a consistent technique that keeps improving the more you use it. It also reduces strain, since your hands stay in a natural resting position rather than drifting around the keyboard.
On Type of Faith specifically, learning to touch type means you can focus on the words you're memorising rather than the mechanics of getting them onto the screen.
Home row is where your fingers rest when you're not actively typing. Left hand: A S D F. Right hand: J K L ;. Your thumbs sit on the spacebar. Every other key is a reach from that position, and good technique means returning to it after every reach so your fingers always know where they are.
The small raised bumps on F and J are there to help you find home row without looking.
Go to Lessons. The first lesson introduces just two keys. From there, new keys are added gradually until you've covered the whole keyboard. Each drill has a target accuracy you need to hit before moving on.
Don't skip ahead. The early drills feel slow, but that's the point. You're building muscle memory, and rushing it means practising mistakes.
Accuracy first. Speed is a side effect of ingraining the correct patterns. Practising at a pace where you're making lots of errors trains bad habits. Once your accuracy is consistently above 95%, speed tends to follow on its own.
Typing Scripture gives the practice session a purpose beyond the score. Instead of typing meaningless strings or generic filler text, you're engaging with words that carry real weight: verses that have comforted, challenged, and shaped people for centuries. Many users find that the repetition involved in typing a verse is itself a form of meditation, and that the words stick in a way that passive reading doesn't quite manage.
The hope behind the site is that the time spent practising your typing is also time spent in the Word.
Verses are organised into 49 categories — Faith, Hope, Peace, Forgiveness, Courage, Wisdom, Love, Anxiety, Depression, Loss, and many more — with 10 verses in each. They were chosen for their familiarity and memorability across different Christian backgrounds. The Daily Challenge and Daily Bread questions use a date-seeded selection so everyone gets the same verse or questions each day.
No. The game uses widely recognised Scripture and makes no theological commentary. The verse selection draws from passages that Christians across traditions would recognise. If a category or verse seems out of place, feel free to raise it.
Yes. The content is entirely Scripture-based and family-friendly. All usernames go through a profanity filter, and there's no user-generated content beyond usernames and scores.
Yes, it was built with exactly that kind of use in mind. Everything is free, no accounts are required to play, and the content is entirely Scripture. If you have specific needs for classroom use (bulk accounts, custom verse sets, removing ads) get in touch.
There are six ways to play:
Blind Faith is a harder variant within Practice. After a preview period you type the verse from memory, with four difficulty levels to choose from:
On any difficulty you can take one peek (a brief window where the full verse reappears) if you get stuck. The preview duration (default 20 seconds) and peek duration (default 5 seconds) are both adjustable in Settings.
Each day there's one verse, seeded from the date, so it's the same for every player. Your first submission is the one that counts for the leaderboard. You can keep practising the same verse afterwards, but only that first attempt counts. The leaderboard resets at midnight.
Daily Bread is a five-question quiz that resets every day. Each question shows you a verse; you pick the correct book and chapter reference from four options. You get one attempt per day. Scoring is by number of correct answers first, then by time as a tiebreaker, so knowing your Bible and being quick both matter.
You can switch to Study Mode before attempting, which lets you browse the verse pool to refresh your memory first.
Each lesson has two modes:
Progress in each mode is tracked separately, so completing all drills in Accuracy Mode doesn't tick off Speed Mode.
Solo Race lets you choose from four AI types:
The verse text changes colour as you type to give you instant feedback:
The NIV, ESV, NLT, and most other modern translations are under copyright. Displaying them in a game context, even for non-commercial use, requires a licence that typically prohibits use in interactive applications. The translations available here are either public domain or use an open licence that permits this kind of use.
Use the Version dropdown on the Practice, Quiz, or Race page. The selection is remembered within your session.
Yes, in a few ways. KJV uses older English forms (lovingkindness, saith, verb endings like -eth) which can trip you up if you're not used to them. WEB and BSB use modern punctuation and spelling, which tends to feel more natural. None is categorically harder. It depends what you grew up reading.
Possibly. Any new translation has to be checked against the publisher's licence before it can be added. If you have a specific suggestion, raise it via the feedback link below.
WPM = (correct characters ÷ 5) ÷ minutes elapsed. Dividing by 5 is the typing industry standard for defining a "word", which normalises across long and short words so scores are comparable. Only correctly typed characters count; errors don't contribute to your WPM. Scores above 250 WPM are rejected server-side, and any result where the WPM doesn't match the time taken within a reasonable margin is also flagged. This keeps leaderboards fair.
Accuracy = (1 − error keystrokes ÷ total keystrokes) × 100%, rounded to the nearest whole number. Every incorrect key press counts as an error. Going back and correcting it doesn't remove the error. The mistake was already recorded when you pressed the wrong key.
Practice history, race results, and settings are saved in your browser's local storage. If you clear your browser data, they're gone. Creating an account backs everything up to the server; your history will restore automatically when you sign in on any device.
Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari all work. Internet Explorer is not supported. If something looks broken, try updating your browser first.
Practice, Quiz, and Race all work on mobile; tapping the input brings up your on-screen keyboard as normal. Lessons are functional but the keyboard map becomes cramped on small screens; if you're learning to touch type, a physical keyboard is the right tool for the job.
No. Any standard keyboard works. For Lessons, you can choose between UK and US layouts; the difference matters for keys like @, ", and #. The layout toggle is on the Lessons page.
The site has a service worker that caches the core pages and assets, so if you've visited before, the interface will load offline. Verse fetching requires an internet connection, since verses are retrieved live and then cached for 24 hours. You won't be able to log in or submit scores without a connection.
No. Everything works without signing in. Your progress is stored locally in your browser.
Click Sign In in the navigation bar. You can sign in with a Google account or an email address and password. After signing in for the first time, you'll be prompted to choose a username.
See the Privacy Policy for the full details. Your username, typing scores, and basic usage analytics are stored. No advertising profile is built unless you've accepted cookies.
Go to Settings → Account → Delete Account. This permanently removes your account and all server-side data including scores, stats, and history. It cannot be undone. You will be asked to confirm twice before deletion proceeds. Local browser data (settings, cached progress) is separate; use Clear All Data in Settings to remove that as well.
Yes. Go to Settings → Theme. Options are Auto (follows your device's system preference), Light, and Dark. The site also has seasonal accent colours that change automatically throughout the year for Easter, Lent, Advent, and a few other seasons.
Yes. The category dropdown on Practice, Quiz, and Race has all 49 topics (start typing to search). Verse length can be filtered to Short (under 110 characters), Medium (110–230), Long (230+), or Any. Verses also carry a difficulty badge based on length.
Yes. Settings → Blind Faith. Preview duration can be set between 1 and 30 seconds (default 20s). Peek duration can be set between 1 and 10 seconds (default 5s). The difficulty level (Guided, Partial, Steadfast, Full Blind) is selected directly on the Practice page when Blind Faith mode is active.
Yes, on the Lessons page. The toggle switches the key mappings and shift characters for keys that differ between layouts, so the finger guides and keyboard map stay accurate for your keyboard.
Yes. Click the speaker icon in the navigation bar, or toggle audio in Settings. This mutes the keystroke sounds, countdown, and completion effects.
There are 32 biblical avatars in total. Four are available to everyone from the start. The rest unlock through in-game achievements: reaching WPM milestones, completing practice sessions, finishing lessons, winning races, scoring on quizzes, and so on. You can see all avatars and their unlock requirements on your Profile page. Unlocks are stored locally — sign in to keep them safe across devices.
Your streak is the number of consecutive days you've completed at least one activity on the site. Miss a day and it resets. You earn a streak freeze every 7 days (up to 2 banked at a time), which covers a single missed day automatically so one slip won't undo a long run. Streak milestones are celebrated at 7 days (Bronze Flame), 30 days (Silver Flame), 50 days (Gold Flame), and 100 days (Platinum Flame), each with a verse and a share prompt.
The Profile page shows your best WPM, average WPM, accuracy, practice sessions, daily challenge count, race record, and a progress chart of your speed and accuracy over time.
On the Race page, switch to the Multiplayer tab and create a lobby. Share your six-character join code with the people you want to race. Once everyone's ready, a 3-second countdown starts and you all type the same verse simultaneously. A live race track shows everyone's progress in real time. After the race, you can rematch or start a new lobby.
On the Quiz page, switch to the Multiplayer tab and create a lobby with a shareable join code. First player to select the correct reference wins the round and scores a point. Getting it wrong locks you out for that round. Most points after all rounds wins.
Yes. Multiplayer requires you to be signed in so other players can see your username and avatar.
The race continues for remaining players. If all players disconnect, the lobby closes automatically.
Click or tap the input box to give it focus; the cursor needs to be inside it before keystrokes register. On Practice, pressing Alt+R restarts the current session and refocuses the input automatically.
Check your internet connection. If one translation is failing, try switching to KJV or WEB; these tend to be the most reliable. If the problem persists, the Bible API may be temporarily down; wait a minute and try again. Verses that have loaded recently are cached for 24 hours and should work fine.
Check the mute button in the nav bar (the speaker icon). If that's already unmuted, check your device volume, and make sure your browser hasn't blocked audio for the site (look for a muted tab icon or check browser site settings).
Settings → scroll to the bottom → Clear all data. This removes all locally stored history, settings, and preferences. If you have an account, your server-side scores are not affected by this; contact us if you need those removed too.
Slow down. The retry banner shows exactly what target you missed. Read it before trying again. If accuracy is the issue, type each character deliberately rather than trying to go fast. If WPM is the issue in Speed Mode, make sure your accuracy is solid first; speed follows from accuracy, not the other way around.
The Alt+R shortcut restarts the drill instantly without navigating away. Alt+S starts the drill and Alt+N moves to the next one.
Leave a message via the Ko-fi page, or send an email to hello@typeoffaith.com. Both are checked regularly.