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Typing Game using React

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

React Typing Game is a fun and interactive web application built using React. It tests and improves the user's typing speed and accuracy by presenting sentences for the user to type within a specified time limit. The game provides real-time feedback by highlighting any mistakes made by the user, making it both educational and entertaining.

A preview image of the final output:

👁 typing game react js preview image

Prerequisite:

Approach to Create Typing Game using React

  • Display a sentence for the user to type.
  • Start a timer for the typing session.
  • Highlight mistakes in real-time by changing the background color of the incorrect word.
  • Calculate and display the user's score based on correct typings.
  • Provide a start button to initiate the typing game.
  • Allow users to select difficulty levels for sentences.
  • Display a game over message with the final score when the time runs out.

Steps to Create the React App:

Step 1: Set up a new React project using:

npx create-react-app typing-game

Step 2: Navigate to the root of the project using the following command:

cd typing-game

Project structure:

👁 Screenshot-2024-04-26-231232

The Updated package.json will look like:

 "dependencies": {
"react": "^18.3.0",
"react-dom": "^18.3.0",
"react-scripts": "5.0.1",
"web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
}

Example: Below is an example of creating a write typing game using React.

Start your application using the following command:

npm start

Output:


👁 gfg73
Typing Game using React




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