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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Persian (Farsi) typing games
Make repetition feel lighter. Three short games, all played in Persian (Farsi). 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 Persian (Farsi) with games
Persian (Farsi) 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.
Frequency beats duration in Persian (Farsi) by a wider margin than in most languages, because what you are building is a composing order and composing orders decay quickly between sessions. Ten minutes daily will take you further than an hour on Sunday.
Typing Persian (Farsi) is not a matter of one key, one character. The Arabic script combines consonants, vowel signs and modifiers into single written clusters, which means you compose a syllable and watch it assemble itself as you go. The Persian Standard layout maps 28 characters across the standard key positions to make that composing order predictable.
The speed test and the games draw on one bank of 55 common Persian (Farsi) words — 25 distinct characters in all, averaging 3 written units per word. All three games pull from it, so the vocabulary you meet while playing is the vocabulary the speed test measures you on. Difficulty rises with every four clean hits and never falls back — a round ends when you stop keeping up, rather than when a timer decides.
Of the 25 characters these 55 words use, one alone accounts for roughly 13%. Frequencies like that are why touch typing can be learned at all — you are not memorising 25 equally important characters, you are automating a handful and filling in the rest over time.
- Writing system
- Arabic
- Keyboard layout
- Persian Standard
- Direction
- right to left
- Mapped characters
- 28
- Practice words
- 55
- Distinct characters
- 25
- Average word
- 3 units
Characters that come up most in these Persian (Farsi) words
- ا21
- ر15
- و14
- د12
- ب11
- ن11
- ت9
- ی9
- س8
- م8
- آ7
- ز7
Counted across the 55 practice words — the ones worth recognising first.
دستان آرام ردیف اصلی صفحه کلید را پیدا می کنندFour letters Arabic does not have, and a space that is not a space
Persian uses the Arabic script with four additional letters — پ, چ, ژ, گ — for sounds Arabic lacks. It also writes two characters differently: Persian ک and ی have distinct standard forms from their Arabic counterparts, and using the Arabic ones is a common and visible error in Persian text.
The genuinely distinctive feature is the zero-width non-joiner, often called the half-space. Persian uses it constantly to separate parts of a compound word without letting them join visually — it is required for correct spelling in a great many words, and it is invisible. Text typed without it looks wrong to a Persian reader and is difficult to search.
The standard Persian keyboard gives it a key. It is the single most important thing about typing Persian that nobody tells you.
Questions about typing in Persian (Farsi)
Do I need a Persian (Farsi) keyboard?
No. Printed Arabic keycaps are sold and they are not worth it for a touch typist: you are trying to learn a map, and a visible map delays that. Select the Persian Standard layout in your system settings and use the on-screen guide below instead, which you can turn off once it stops helping.
Which Persian (Farsi) keyboard layout do these games use?
Persian Standard, with 28 characters mapped across the standard key positions. Persian (Farsi) runs right to left, which both the practice text and the cursor respect. The 55 practice words between them use 25 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.
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.
What will I actually be typing in Persian (Farsi)?
55 of the most common words in Persian (Farsi), drawn at random. They use 25 distinct characters between them and average 3 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 Persian (Farsi) 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 units per word with a fairly compact inventory of 25 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?
No account, no payment, no trial. Progress is stored in this browser, which is enough until you want it on a second device or on a leaderboard — that is the only thing an account buys, and it is optional.
Also in Persian (Farsi): lessons and the speed test.
Other languages written in Arabic: Urdu, Arabic, Kurdish (Sorani), Pashto.
Other languages whose letters combine as you type: Punjabi, Sinhala. 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.
- Why your typing speed stopped improvingNearly everyone stalls somewhere in the middle. What causes a typing plateau, why more of the same practice does not clear it, and what does.
- How long a typing test should beFifteen seconds, one minute and five minutes measure three different things. Which length to use, and why comparing results across them is meaningless.