1 Player
Build pace in a focused training dojo with eras, categories, lengths, live character score, bonus tracking, and a finish screen that shows exactly what settled the run.
TRAINING DOJO
BattleType
Type.Battle.Win.
Fresh text every match. Every character scored. Free on the App Store.
Choose your type
Three ways to turn typing into combat.
Train alone, duel a human opponent, or race the version of yourself that used to be faster.
2 Player Battle
Invite a friend through Game Center, match with whoever is queued, or start an encrypted nearby duel. Setup, countdown, progress, and results stay in sync — then RUN IT BACK against the same opponent.
NETWORK DUEL
Ghost Challenge
Your best runs become replayable opponents. Beat the afterimage, rewrite the record, and unlock ghost badges.
PERSONAL BEST
Prompt types
Every run changes the rhythm under your hands.
Battle Type moves between prose, digit pressure, and custom glyph decoding so speed never settles into autopilot.
Words
WPM
Headlines, quotes, books, poetry, speeches, music, arts, and pop culture across five eras — pulled live and never served twice.
Numbers
123
Pure digit drills for clean numeric control under arcade pressure.
Glyphs
Custom symbol sets scale from easy to expert so decoding becomes its own battle.
Fresh text, every single match
You will never type the same passage twice.
Words battles pull a live passage the moment the match starts, matched to the era and category you chose. Every played passage is fingerprinted, so the archive never repeats itself.
1986-2005
Headlines
1m Standard
Source Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Live, not canned.
Wikipedia backs every category under CC BY-SA 4.0, credited on the loading and results screens — so you always know where the words came from.
Real oratory.
Speeches prefer Wikisource, where US federal transcripts are public domain. You type the actual words that were said, not prose about them.
Always ready.
No signal? Battle Type falls back to its own written passages, so a match is never blocked on the network. Headlines keep their headline voice either way.
WPM battle setup
Build the battle before the first key lands.
Choose the era, source, and pressure. Three decisions lock the rhythm of every Words match.
Round1/3
TypeWords
Select Era
1. Select Era
2. Select Category
Era1946-1965
3. Select Length
TypeWordsEra1946-1965CategoryQuotes
Battle Ready
Configuration complete Ready to TypeTypeWords
Era1946-1965
CategoryQuotes
Length1m Standard
Battle setup: Words, 1946-1965, Quotes, Time, 1 minute Standard.
Live battle screen
Every keypress hits the arena in real time.
The match UI turns typing into a readable fight: the clock, your character score, what each bonus category is paying, your rival's progress on the same scale as yours, and the cursor waiting on the next key.
Words · 1946-1965 · Quotes · 1m Standard
P1 · You41%
Rival · Byteblade37%
TIME0:42
CHARACTERS
130
TOTAL BONUS8
PUNC+1 02
CAPS+1 02
NUM+2 02
SYM+2 00
The arena wakes in electric blue as every clean keypress builds momentum.A calm rhythm keeps the signal bright, and the final 30 seconds belong to the player who stays 100% precise under pressure.
ACC 98%ERR 01
Score you can read.
Characters climb with every correct key, and the bonus panel names each category and what it pays while you type — so you always know what a stretch of text is worth.
Combo bursts.
Milestones at 25, 50 and 100 keys detonate on screen, and the commentary calls out speed surges, error recovery and clean streaks as they happen.
Human pressure.
Both progress meters measure the same thing at the same scale. Online and nearby battles exchange progress, finished state, disconnect windows and winner resolution over a fast channel.
Every character counts
A score that says what you actually did.
Every correct keystroke is exactly one character, whatever it is. The extra reach some characters take is paid separately as bonus — so a dense paragraph of punctuation and capitals is worth more than a wall of plain lowercase, and the score shows it.
Characters0
Total bonus0
Punctuation
+1
.,?!
×0
Capitals
+1
ABC
×0
Numbers
+2
749
×0
Symbols
+2
#%~
×0
Letters & spaces
+0
ae␣
×0
One key, one character.
No weighting games and no hidden multipliers. What you typed is what you scored, and the battle screen counts it in front of you.
Bonus is named.
Punctuation and capitals pay +1. Numbers and symbols pay +2. The categories are labelled with their values mid-battle, not revealed at the end.
Fair across types.
Generated Numbers and Glyphs boards earn no bonus — every key there is a single tap, so there is no extra reach to pay for.
One ladder decides every match
Characters, then bonus, then errors.
Three rungs settle it, in that order, every time. Whichever side wins a rung lights up — and the same ladder that decides the battle also sets your personal best and picks which run becomes your ghost.
RungYouOpp
CharactersCorrect keystrokes landed
460
422
Total bonusPunctuation, capitals, numbers, symbols
+72
+66
ErrorsFewer wins the rung
01
04
Victory
Settled on characters · Online · Byteblade
The battle
Head-to-head resolves rung by rung, so you can see the exact figure that beat you — or that you beat.
Your personal best
The same comparison promotes a run to your record. "NEW PERSONAL BEST" means it climbed the ladder, not that it got lucky on the clock.
Your ghost
And the same rule decides which run becomes the ghost you will have to beat next time. One rule everywhere, instead of three different ones.
Progression
Records, badges, and ghosts keep the next run calling.
The profile turns improvement into a visible arcade record: speed thresholds, accuracy awards, category sweeps, human wins, and personal-best ghosts.
Badge SignalRARE
+
100 WPM
Hit 100 net WPM.
Awarded for reaching 100 net WPM in a completed battle. This badge belongs to typists who can keep the circuit hot.
Badge SignalEPIC
+
Combo Reactor
Reach a 100-key combo.
Awarded for building a 100-key combo. The reactor is online when rhythm, speed, and focus all hold.
Badge SignalLEGENDARY
+
Perfect Run
Finish with no errors.
Awarded for completing a battle with no errors. A flawless run, sealed and shining.
Badge SignalRARE
+
Type Trinity
Complete every prompt type.
Awarded for completing Words, Numbers, and Glyphs battles. You have touched every major Battle Type signal.
Badge SignalRARE
+
Era Explorer
Complete every era.
Awarded for completing battles across every era. The archive opened from early radio years to the connected age.
Badge SignalUNCOMMON
+
First Win
Win an online or nearby battle.
Awarded for winning a human battle online or nearby. Your first duel victory is officially on the board.
Badge SignalUNCOMMON
+
Ghost Hunter
Beat a saved ghost.
Awarded for beating a saved ghost. You outran a previous signal and rewrote the replay.
Badge SignalCOMMON
+
Counterculture Circuit
Complete 1966-1985.
Awarded for completing a 1966-1985 battle. Experimental signals, typed back with control.
Badge CatalogMore Signals
+
Many More
More achievements wait.
Speed, accuracy, combo, era, category, multiplayer, and ghost challenges keep the badge chase expanding after every clean run.
Battle people you know
Invites arrive. Rematches are one tap.
Send a Game Center invite from the channel screen or the lobby and it lands — no more invitations disappearing into the void. Or queue up and see how many players are actually out there before you commit.
Invite a friend.
Send an invite from the channel screen or straight from the lobby, and accept one directly into a match. The handshake is two-sided now — a request that times out withdraws itself instead of stranding whoever tapped accept.
See who is out there.
SEARCH FOR ANYONE runs inside Battle Type instead of taking over the screen, and the lobby reports the live queue depth so you know whether it is worth waiting.
3 players searchingRun it back.
RUN IT BACK re-matches the opponent you just faced — online or nearby — over the still-live match, instead of dropping you into the queue with a stranger.
See it running
Ten seconds of the real app.
Straight captures from the shipping build — no mockups, no retouching.
◂ Drag to explore ▸
Out now on the App Store
BattleType is live.
A neon typing arena built around speed, precision, rivalry, and records worth chasing. Free, no ads between you and the keyboard — just the fight.
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