about

manatype is a typing test rendered like a video game. Each correct keystroke fires a particle burst, the cursor leaves a glowing trail, mistakes get squiggled in red, and when the test ends a live WPM curve traces back through your run.

how it works

Type the words that appear. The renderer reacts in real time, sparks, starbursts, motion blur, bloom. There's no scoring system beyond words-per-minute and accuracy; the goal is to make typing feel good.

video export

When you finish a run, press D on your keyboard to download a 60fps mp4 of the entire test. Encoding happens entirely in your browser via the WebCodecs API, nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and the file lands in your downloads folder.

what's under the hood

The renderer is written in Rust on top of sokol-gfx, with a custom HDR + bloom + chromatic-aberration pipeline. On the web it runs on WebGPU; on macOS and Linux it runs as a native binary on Metal / OpenGL.

contact

Bugs, feedback, requests: hi@manatype.app.