Vibe Coding Made Us Faster. Vibe Racer Keeps Us Sharp.
Vibe Racer turns computer science lessons into multiplayer typing races. Warm up alone, race friends or teammates, and fight for the leaderboard.
Why we made it
Vibe coding is great. I use it every day. It lets us build faster and try ideas that would otherwise sit on a list for months.
But I noticed something slightly uncomfortable: the more the tools remembered for me, the rustier I got. I could ship the code, but details about algorithms, networking, memory, and hardware were taking longer to come back.
I didn’t want another course. I wanted something I would actually open after a day of work.
So we made Vibe Racer: a typing game where every race is built around a short computer science or computer engineering lesson.
How it works
Type the lesson and your little ASCII car moves. Type quickly and accurately and you pull ahead. Make a mistake and you lose momentum. At the end you get your words per minute, accuracy, score, and finishing place.
The lessons get harder as you complete more races, so it works whether you are learning the basics or trying to remember something you last thought about ten years ago.
Pick a race
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Practice lets you set the pace and race against bots. It is the easiest way to learn the controls or work on your WPM without waiting for anyone else.
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Online Race puts you into public matchmaking with up to five racers. No organising required; just join and type.
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Race with Friends creates a private lobby with a share code. Send it to friends or drop it into the work chat and settle the argument properly.
There’s also a race history, so you can see how you’ve done over time.
The leaderboards make it dangerous
You can compare personal bests on daily, weekly, and all-time leaderboards. There is a global board, and if you play through Superthread, a workspace board for your team as well.
That’s where Vibe Racer gets fun. The person who talks the most about their keyboard is not always the fastest. The backend engineer suddenly becomes impossible to catch. Someone posts a score at 5pm and the rest of the team loses the next half-hour trying to beat it.
Keep the useful bits sharp
This isn’t an anti-AI thing. AI is brilliant. But it still helps to understand what it gives you, especially when it gives you something confidently wrong.
We made Vibe Racer to keep the fundamentals fresh without making it feel like homework. Play for five minutes, learn something, annoy a colleague, and come back tomorrow to defend your place.
