The premise is the same use drag racing as an analog for typing speed to gamify typing practice and make it competitive but what sets Nitro Type apart is how much it leans into the gamification.

It's meant solely as a way to practice typing in different open source coding environments. This includes Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Perl, C, and more.

At 10FastFingers, you can test your typing speed in most major and European languages, measure yourself against other typists in your language, and compete in realtime (but only in English).

With schools set to take their first Common Core-aligned tests, many of which will be on computers, schools are in a rush to make sure students know how to type.