GAME 01
Drift
Clear the sky
Words fall in gently and pick up speed. Type one, press space, watch it burst.
PLAY WITH PURPOSE · Slovenščina
Slovenian typing games
Make repetition feel lighter. Three short games, all played in Slovenian. 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 Slovenian with games
Slovenian uses the Latin alphabet you already have. The practice words here add 3 characters beyond a-z — č, ž, š.
If you already touch type English, most of Slovenian transfers on the first session. What does not transfer is the 3 characters this bank reaches for beyond a-z — č, ž and š — and they are not decoration: leave them off and the word is misspelled. A steady minority in this bank needs at least one.
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: 91 common Slovenian words.
A frequency count of the bank explains why early progress feels fast and later progress does not. The top ten characters cover about 72% of everything these Slovenian words contain; past that you are learning characters that turn up once in a paragraph, which takes as long to automate and pays back far less often.
The temptation in Slovenian is to skip the accents while drilling and add them later. It does not work — the accent is part of the motion, and a hand that has practised the word without it has practised a different word. Drill them from the start, awkward as the first week is.
- Writing system
- Latin
- Keyboard layout
- Latin QWERTY family
- Direction
- left to right
- Practice words
- 91
- Distinct characters
- 24
- Average word
- 4.4 units
Characters beyond a-z in the Slovenian practice words
- č6
- ž5
- š4
Counted across the 91 practice words. 16% of them need at least one.
in je se na da ne za so po ki pa kotThree háček letters, and the dual
Slovene uses a Latin alphabet of twenty-five letters with just three carrying diacritics: č, š and ž. It omits q, w, x and y from native words. Among the Slavic languages using Latin script, this makes it one of the least diacritically busy.
The keyboard is QWERTZ and is nearly identical to the Croatian one, minus the letters Croatian has that Slovene does not.
Slovene retains the dual number — a separate grammatical form for exactly two of something, distinct from singular and plural — which almost no other living European language does. It means more word forms to type and is a source of national affection.
Questions about typing in Slovenian
Do the games use real Slovenian words?
Yes — all three draw on the same bank of common Slovenian words the speed test samples. Nothing is generated or transliterated for the sake of the game, so a score here means the same thing as a score there.
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.
Do I need a Slovenian keyboard?
No. The characters beyond a-z in these practice words — č, ž and š — are reachable on the keyboard you already own once the right layout is selected in your operating system's settings. Some layouts give them their own keys, others build them from a modifier; either way the hardware is unchanged.
Which Slovenian keyboard layout do these games use?
Latin QWERTY family, plus the 3 characters beyond a-z that these practice words use. The 91 practice words between them use 24 of those 29, so 5 characters never come up in the practice text — these are the commonest words rather than an even sweep of the layout. The keyboard guide below the typing area shows the keys you actually press, which for an input method are the Latin ones already printed on them.
What will I actually be typing in Slovenian?
91 of the most common words in Slovenian, drawn at random. They use 24 distinct characters between them and average 4.4 written units each, with the longest running to about 9. 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 Slovenian hard to type?
Only slightly, if you already touch type. 16% of the practice words need a character outside a-z, 3 such characters appear in total, and the rest is a keyboard you already know. The difficulty is concentrated in a handful of positions rather than spread across the layout.
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 Slovenian: lessons and the speed test.
Other languages written in Latin: Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing accuracyWhat an accuracy percentage really means, why an error costs more than one keystroke, and how to fix accuracy without simply slowing down forever.
- 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.