After Monkeytype: a place to cash the practice in
TypeBag is a 1v1 typing race for money: two players type the same 30–60 second passage, and the faster, more accurate typist takes 90% of the pot. It is free to try with no account, or staked at $1–$10 in USDC on Solana.
Practice and competition are different sports
Monkeytype is a training tool, and an unusually good one: configurable, clean, honest about your numbers, the kind of thing people leave open in a tab for years. What it is built for is you against your own personal best.
There is a point in that progression where the graph stops being the motivation. You know your number. You have known it for months. The question stops being "how fast am I" and becomes "faster than who?" TypeBag is built for that second question, and it attaches a stake to the answer.
What changes when someone is racing you
- Passages, not word streams. A duel runs on a continuous passage of real prose, roughly 30 to 60 seconds of it, with punctuation and capitals where the sentence puts them rather than where a word list does.
- Errors cost sequence, not just score. There is no accuracy percentage to average out at the end. A wrong character has to be fixed before the race continues, which is a very different kind of pressure to a test that simply counts it.
- You can see the other player moving. Their progress is live on your screen. Most people discover their real weakness here: not raw speed, but what their hands do when someone pulls ahead.
- The result is rated. Paid duels move a per-tier Glicko-2 rating and a global MMR, so the ladder means something beyond a personal best.
Expect your first duel numbers to land under your practice numbers. That is normal and it is not the passage being unfair; it is the difference between a metronome and an opponent. The gap closes with duels, not with more practice.
Your practice number still matters
It sets your starting bracket. Matchmaking pairs you with players near your own speed, so a 90 WPM typist meets other 90 WPM typists rather than the top of the ladder. That means you do not need a competitive number to start; you need to beat the people who type like you. For where your speed actually sits, see what counts as a good WPM.
Where Monkeytype is still the right tool
For drilling, it just is. Custom word lists, punctuation and number toggles, language sets, themes, per-key analysis; TypeBag has none of that and is not trying to. It has one mode: a duel against another person. Keep training wherever you train; come here when you want the number to be worth something. Also worth knowing: TypeBag is 18+, is desktop only, and is unavailable in some regions.
Starting without staking anything
The free tier needs no account and no deposit. It is unrated by design, so nothing you do there affects a rating, and it runs the same engine as the paid tiers. Race a few, see whether the head-to-head format grabs you, and decide about stakes afterwards.