Enemies stream in from the top and sides, each carrying a word. Start typing a word and your ship locks onto that enemy - finish the word to destroy it. One typo resets your combo, so accuracy matters as much as speed.

Yes. If you need to switch targets, press the Escape (ESC) key. This releases your current lock without resetting your combo multiplier.

Two: Endless and Checkpoint. Endless is the classic survival run - random words, waves that never end, and a score leaderboard. Checkpoint is a finite campaign of fixed waves where reaching a new wave sets a checkpoint you can always resume from, ranked by the furthest wave reached.

Every Checkpoint wave has a fixed word list - identical for every player and every skin - at one fixed difficulty. You always resume from the furthest wave you have reached, so you can retry a hard wave without replaying the whole game. New records save to the leaderboard automatically, and clearing the final wave beats the campaign (new waves arrive in updates).

Easy, Medium and Hard (Endless only) change how many enemies stay on screen and how fast they spawn - the words themselves are the same. They also carry a score multiplier: Hard scores at full value, Medium at 70%, Easy at 50%. It stays skill-dependent: if Hard is your wall, you will out-score yourself on Medium, and that is fine. But past a certain level - typing clean with almost no mistakes - Hard pays off more, so the top of the leaderboard belongs to Hard. Checkpoint mode has one fixed difficulty because it ranks by wave, not score.

Points per word = word length × current wave × combo multiplier, then scaled by the difficulty multiplier (Hard ×1, Medium ×0.70, Easy ×0.5). Longer words on high waves with an unbroken combo on Hard are worth the most. Scoring is identical across every skin, so the leaderboard stays fair.

Words per minute is computed as (correct characters ÷ 5) ÷ minutes played. It updates live in the HUD and is recorded with your final score.

No. Skins are purely cosmetic - a complete change of world, but the engine, word difficulty and scoring are identical. Pick whichever world you like and compete on the same leaderboard.

Typing Shooter needs a physical keyboard, so it is best played on desktop. On touch devices you can read the leaderboard and how-to, but the game itself expects a keyboard.

There are two boards: Endless (ranked by score) and Checkpoint (ranked by furthest wave). Set a nickname in the menu before you play, and any run that beats your best saves to the leaderboard automatically - there is no Save button. All submissions are validated server-side, so only runs actually played in the browser count.