GAME 01
Drift
Clear the sky
Words fall in gently and pick up speed. Type one, press space, watch it burst.
PLAY WITH PURPOSE · ქართული
Georgian typing games
Make repetition feel lighter. Three short games, all played in Georgian. Every 4 clean hits raises the level, and it never drops back. Scores are kept in this browser; signed in, a new personal best also goes to the leaderboard.
GAME 02
Orbit
Hold the ring
Characters circle the core. Strike each one before its arc runs out.
GAME 03
Signal
Beat the pulse
One word, one shrinking window. Keep the chain alive as the pulse quickens.
Practising Georgian with games
Georgian is written in its own script. The Georgian QWERTY layout maps 31 characters across the keys you already have, so every motion transfers and every letter moves.
The speed test and the games draw on one bank of 45 common Georgian words — 28 distinct characters in all, averaging 4.6 written units per word. A round is short by design, two or three minutes at most, because the value of a game here is attention rather than endurance. The lessons are where the hours go; this is where you find out what has actually stuck.
One number is worth carrying into the first session. About 74% of the letters in these Georgian words come from just ten characters. Get those ten genuinely automatic — not merely findable — and the rest of the layout stops being the thing standing between you and a readable sentence.
A Georgian keyboard is a setting, not a purchase. Selecting the Georgian QWERTY layout in your operating system repoints 31 of the keys you already have at Georgian characters; nothing about the hardware changes. The guide below shows both faces of each key at once, the letter printed on the cap and the one it will actually write.
The hard part of Georgian is not the hands, it is the map. Most people find the motions transfer immediately and the recall does not: you know the key you want and cannot say where it is. That gap closes with repetition, and closes faster if you resist looking.
- Writing system
- Georgian
- Keyboard layout
- Georgian QWERTY
- Direction
- left to right
- Mapped characters
- 31
- Practice words
- 45
- Distinct characters
- 28
- Average word
- 4.6 units
Characters you will press most in these Georgian words
- ა38
- ი31
- ე15
- ლ13
- მ11
- რ11
- ხ10
- ვ9
- ო7
- ს7
- დ6
- ც5
Counted across the 45 practice words — the characters worth getting right first.
მშვიდი ხელები პოულობენ სახლის რიგს პრაქტიკითAn alphabet with no capital letters
Mkhedruli, the modern Georgian script, has no case distinction. There are no capital letters, so no shift key for letters, no capitalisation of names or sentence beginnings, and none of the case-conversion problems that occupy so much software elsewhere.
It has 33 letters, each representing exactly one sound, in a writing system that has been in continuous use for around 1,600 years and is unrelated to any other script. Two earlier Georgian alphabets, Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri, survive in ecclesiastical use; together the three are on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.
The layout used here maps Georgian letters onto QWERTY positions phonetically, which is the common arrangement.
Questions about typing in Georgian
Do I need a Georgian keyboard?
No, and this is the part people most often get wrong. A Georgian keyboard is a software setting: add the Georgian QWERTY layout in your operating system's keyboard settings and the keys under your fingers begin producing Georgian characters. Keycaps with Georgian letters printed on them are a convenience for people who look down, and if you are learning to touch type you are learning not to.
Do games help, or are they just a break?
Both, honestly. They will not teach you a key you have never drilled, and they are very good at exposing which keys you only think you know — under time pressure the shaky ones fail first. Treat them as a diagnostic and the lessons as the fix.
Does the difficulty ever stop rising?
There is a ceiling, and almost nobody meets it. In practice a round ends because the pace passed what you can hold rather than because the game ran out of levels — which is the intended shape, since a game that ends on a timer tells you nothing about your typing.
Will playing improve my Georgian typing?
It will improve your recall of keys you have already drilled, which is a real and specific benefit. It will not build the finger positions in the first place — pressure is a poor teacher and an excellent examiner. Use the lessons to learn a key and a game to find out whether you actually did.
Which Georgian keyboard layout do these games use?
Georgian QWERTY, with 31 characters mapped across the standard key positions. The 45 practice words between them use 28 of those 31, so the drills reach very nearly all of the layout rather than a comfortable corner. The keyboard guide below the typing area shows the physical key and the character it produces together, so you are never reading a layout diagram in one window while typing in another.
What will I actually be typing in Georgian?
45 of the most common words in Georgian, drawn at random. They use 28 distinct characters between them and average 4.6 written units each, with the longest running to about 8. Short, frequent words are used on purpose: they are the ones your hands will meet most often outside a lesson, so the practice transfers.
Is Georgian hard to type?
Harder to start, not harder to reach. Every motion you already have transfers; what does not is the map, and 31 key positions have to be relearned. With a fairly compact inventory of 28 characters across the practice bank, most people are past the worst of it inside two weeks of short daily sessions.
Do I need an account, and is it free?
No, and it is free either way. Every lesson, drill, test and game works signed out, with your progress kept in this browser. An account adds three things only: your progress and settings follow you to another device, your streak survives clearing your browser data, and you can appear on the leaderboards under a name you choose.
Also in Georgian: lessons and the speed test.
Other languages that move the alphabet onto the same keys: Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Tigrinya, Amharic, Armenian. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing Georgian and Armenian: two alphabets you can nearly guessTwo neighbouring scripts, each unrelated to anything around it, and two keyboards arranged by sound. How far that gets you, measured key by key.
- Keyboard layoutsQWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, AZERTY, QWERTZ and the non-Latin layouts — what each one changes, and whether switching is worth it.
- Adding a keyboard layoutThe step before any of this works: turning on the layout in your operating system, switching to it, and what to do about the wrong letters on your keycaps.