GAME 01
Drift
Clear the sky
Words fall in gently and pick up speed. Type one, press space, watch it burst.
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Kurdish (Sorani) typing games
Make repetition feel lighter. Three short games, all played in Kurdish (Sorani). 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 Kurdish (Sorani) with games
Kurdish (Sorani) is written in the Arabic script, whose marks combine with base letters into single written units — so one keystroke is not one character on screen. It also runs right to left.
The thing that surprises people about Kurdish (Sorani) is the arithmetic. A word that looks like 3.4 units on screen took more keystrokes than that, because Arabic vowel signs and conjunct forms are typed as separate presses and then rendered together. Accuracy matters more than usual here: an error inside a cluster is not always visible at a glance.
Expect your Kurdish (Sorani) speed to lag your English speed for longer than feels reasonable, and expect the reason to be composition rather than key-finding. Each written unit is several presses in a particular order, and it is the order that becomes automatic last.
Of the 22 characters these 21 words use, one alone accounts for roughly 15%. Frequencies like that are why touch typing can be learned at all — you are not memorising 22 equally important characters, you are automating a handful and filling in the rest over time.
Each game escalates on success rather than on a schedule. Four clean hits and the level rises, permanently for that round, so the difficulty finds you instead of being chosen — a beginner and a fast typist play the same game at genuinely different speeds. The words come from the same bank the speed test samples: 21 common Kurdish (Sorani) words.
- Writing system
- Arabic
- Keyboard layout
- Kurdish Sorani
- Direction
- right to left
- Mapped characters
- 27
- Practice words
- 21
- Distinct characters
- 22
- Average word
- 3.4 units
Characters that come up most in these Kurdish (Sorani) words
- ا11
- و9
- ە6
- ک5
- ئ3
- ب3
- د3
- ر3
- ڵ3
- م3
- ن3
- ت2
Counted across the 21 practice words — the ones worth recognising first.
A short bank. Kurdish (Sorani) has 21 practice words here, which is few enough that a long run will repeat them. That is a gap rather than a decision: adding words to a tool whose whole purpose is that people practise typing them needs certainty about Kurdish (Sorani) spelling, and a bank with a misspelling in it teaches the misspelling. Corrections are genuinely welcome.
دەستی ئارام بە ئاسانی ڕیزی سەرەکی دەدۆزێتەوەTwo scripts for one language
Kurdish is written in two different alphabets depending on where it is spoken. Sorani, used in Iraq and Iran and taught here, is written in an Arabic-derived script. Kurmanji, used in Turkey and Syria, is written in a Latin alphabet based on Turkish.
The two are far enough apart in dialect and script that a Sorani reader and a Kurmanji reader may struggle with each other's written text despite sharing a language. The Sorani script differs from Arabic in marking vowels explicitly, which Arabic does not — a deliberate departure that makes Kurdish easier to read for learners.
The layout here is a Sorani arrangement. Anyone needing Kurmanji wants a Turkish or Turkish-derived Latin keyboard instead.
Questions about typing in Kurdish (Sorani)
Do I need to be fast to play?
No. All three start slow and speed up only as you succeed: the level rises every four clean hits and never drops back, so a game meets you where you are and ends when you stop keeping up. What a round tells you is where that point is today, which is a more useful thing to know than a score.
Are game scores saved?
On this device, always. On the leaderboard, only if you have signed in and chosen a name — and a leaderboard name is never your email address.
Which game should I start with?
Whichever appeals — they pressure different things. Falling words reward finishing what you started; the orbit rewards picking a target and committing; the shrinking timer rewards not hesitating. If you are trying to fix hesitation specifically, the third one is the unpleasant and effective choice.
Do I need a Kurdish (Sorani) keyboard?
No hardware is required — Kurdish Sorani ships with every major operating system. What does take getting used to is that a key is not a character here: vowel signs and conjunct forms are separate presses that the renderer assembles, so the order you press in matters more than the position you press.
Which Kurdish (Sorani) keyboard layout do these games use?
Kurdish Sorani, with 27 characters mapped across the standard key positions. Kurdish (Sorani) runs right to left, which both the practice text and the cursor respect. The 21 practice words between them use 22 distinct characters. 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 Kurdish (Sorani)?
21 of the most common words in Kurdish (Sorani), drawn at random. They use 22 distinct characters between them and average 3.4 written units each, with the longest running to about 5. 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 Kurdish (Sorani) hard to type?
Harder than a one-key-one-letter language, and for a specific reason rather than a vague one: marks combine, so a written unit takes several presses in a fixed order. The bank here averages 3.4 units per word with a fairly compact inventory of 22 characters across the practice bank. The keystroke count is higher than the visible length suggests, which is what makes early progress feel slower than it is.
Do I need an account, and is it free?
Neither. There is no paid tier and no required sign-in — the 21 Kurdish (Sorani) practice words, the speed test and all three games are the whole product, available immediately. Signing in is worth it only if you practise on more than one device.
Also in Kurdish (Sorani): lessons and the speed test.
Other languages written in Arabic: Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Urdu, Arabic.
Other languages whose letters combine as you type: Lao, Malayalam. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing the Arabic script: one alphabet, five keyboardsOne script, five layouts. What Persian, Urdu, Pashto and Kurdish each change, why a letter changes shape after you type it, and which of it transfers.
- Typing in a second scriptIf you already touch type, your hands transfer completely and your recall does not. What that gap feels like, why it closes, and how to shorten it.
- What touch typing isTouch typing means typing without looking, using all ten fingers from a fixed home position. What it is, why it works, and what it is not.