Fair Play Rules

SpeedTypingOnline's leaderboards, personal bests and achievements only mean something if every score was typed by a real person, live, on their own keyboard. These rules keep it that way.

What counts as cheating

Any score you didn't type yourself, live, in that test. This includes:

• Macros, auto-typers, bots and scripts – any program, browser extension or device that sends keystrokes for you, replays a recording of your typing, or speeds it up.
• Tampering – editing, forging or replaying the data a test sends to our servers, or changing how the test itself works.
• Someone else typing for you, or sharing an account so that others can.
• Multiple accounts used to farm scores, get around a restriction, or come back after being flagged.
• Exploiting bugs to inflate a score instead of reporting them.

Custom texts are welcome for practice, but they never count toward leaderboards, personal bests or speed achievements – only texts the site chooses do.

Score verification

A score that would place on a leaderboard may ask you to confirm it with a quick 30-second typing test on fresh text. Until it's confirmed, that score doesn't count toward the leaderboard, your personal bests or your speed achievements. Skipping is allowed – the score then stays in your history only.

What happens to cheaters

Cheating isn't tolerated. We review scores both automatically and by hand. Any account we believe has cheated may, without warning:

• be removed from public leaderboards and rankings;
• have the scores, personal bests and achievements it gained by cheating removed;
• for repeat or serious cases, be suspended or permanently closed.

These decisions are at our discretion. We don't explain how a specific account was detected – that would only help the next cheater.

Think we got it wrong?

Mistakes are rare but possible. Email [email protected] from the address on your account, with your username and anything you'd like us to look at. If a flag was a mistake, we'll restore your scores.

We may update these rules at any time. Continued use of the site means you accept the current version. These rules are part of our Terms of Service.