Word lists

The pools the engine pulls from in time, words, and adaptive modes. Pick a list to browse the full vocabulary, or start a session straight from a card.

English 1k

824 words

The 1,000 most common English words. Default for time and words modes — tuned for raw wpm benchmarks.

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Easy. Conversational.
Best for
Warm-ups · daily speed runs · benchmarks

English 5k

5000 words

Top 5,000 English words. Adds words like infrastructure, generally, paragraph for vocabulary breadth.

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Medium. Reading-paper level.
Best for
Vocabulary · sustained sessions

English 10k

10000 words

Top 10,000 English words. Realistic prose distribution — closer to what you'd type in a long-form document.

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Harder. Newspaper level.
Best for
Long sessions · prose practice

English 20k

20000 words

Top 20,000 English words. Wide vocabulary -- magazine and journal level. Drawn from a trillion-word web corpus, frequency-ranked.

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Wider. Magazine level.
Best for
Vocabulary-heavy practice · range

English 50k

50000 words

Top 50,000 English words. Full-spectrum vocabulary -- includes regional terms, technical jargon, archaic forms. Long sessions only.

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Encyclopedic. Wide-ranging.
Best for
Sustained sessions · breadth

English advanced vocabulary

873 words

Curated SAT/GRE-level vocabulary — abnegation, perspicacious, sycophant, zephyr. Stretches both your typing and your word recall.

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Demanding. Multi-syllable.
Best for
Advanced typists · vocabulary builders · SAT/GRE prep

Scrabble trainer

1805 words

Curated 2- to 7-letter words handy in Scrabble — high-value letter combos, Q-without-U words, common bingos. Train both your typing and your Scrabble vocabulary.

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Game-strategy vocabulary.
Best for
Word-game players · vocabulary recall

Code: TypeScript

95 words

TypeScript-specific syntax — interfaces, generics, utility types, type guards. Pairs well with the JavaScript list.

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Type-heavy.
Best for
TypeScript developers · generics drilling

Code: Rust

97 words

Rust keywords and idioms — fn, mut, impl, trait, Vec<T>, Option, Result, ownership operators.

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Borrow-checker fluent.
Best for
Rust developers · systems programming

Code: SQL

106 words

SQL keywords across SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, window functions, DDL, transactions. Mostly uppercase — drills the shift key too.

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All-caps SHIFT workout.
Best for
Database developers · data analysts

Code: Bash

133 words

Shell commands, flags, redirects, and parameter expansions. cd, ls, grep, awk, sed, pipes, &&, $(...).

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Symbol-soup.
Best for
Sysadmins · CLI fluency

Code: CSS

113 words

CSS properties, values, functions, and selectors. flexbox, grid, custom properties, modern color functions.

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Hyphens and colons.
Best for
Front-end · stylesheet authors

Pangrams

29 words

Sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once. Great for full-keyboard practice in short bursts.

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Sentence-length.
Best for
Alphabet coverage · warm-ups

Latin phrases

94 words

Everyday Latin phrases that crop up in English writing — bona fide, ad hoc, ipso facto, quid pro quo.

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Multi-word entries.
Best for
Academic and legal writing · vocabulary

Capitals of the world

194 words

Capital cities for every country — Tokyo to Ouagadougou. Heavy on proper nouns and unfamiliar spellings.

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Proper nouns. Tricky spellings.
Best for
Geography buffs · uncommon letter combos

My missed words

45 words

Words you've struggled with most across recent sessions. Auto-curated from your error history -- the more you miss a word, the more weight it gets.

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Personal weak spots.
Best for
Error correction · adaptive practice