TypeHangul is an endless game, so there is no finish line. Korean words drift down from the top of the screen toward the water at the bottom, and your job is to type each one before it lands. You begin with six lives, and every word that reaches the water costs you one. When the last life is gone the game ends and your final score is recorded. The aim is simply to beat your own best.
Type with a Korean input method (IME). Pick a falling word, type its syllables, and press Space or Enter to submit and clear it. You never aim or click — type the word and the matching one disappears. If you mistype, press Esc to empty the input box and start the word again. New to Korean typing? Our keyboard practice page walks through how each syllable block is built.
Your score is the number of characters you clear, multiplied by your combo. Clear words back to back without missing and the combo climbs, so a long clean streak is worth far more than the same words typed with mistakes in between. A single miss resets the combo to one. Harder words are not worth bonus points — they simply appear more often as you go, so points come from staying accurate and fast, not from chasing difficult words.
The game is organised into difficulty bands based on how many characters you have typed, not on time — so a fast typist climbs quickly and a careful one climbs gently. Each band raises five things at once: the words fall faster, they appear more often, they get harder, the waterline sits higher, and they begin to move in trickier paths. The water has a ceiling, so it never becomes unfair, but everything else keeps scaling. Drop to your last life and the game briefly slows and the screen reddens — a last-stand moment to claw back control.
Now and then a word appears with an emoji in front of it. Type that word to set off its effect. There are twelve in all — bombs that clear the screen, a freeze that stops every word, a slow that halves the fall speed, a shield that blocks your next miss, an extra life, a combo doubler, and more. One catch: words removed by an item's blast do not add to your score or combo, so only the item word you actually typed counts. You can see the full list on the home page.
A few habits help. Keep your eyes near the bottom of the screen, where words are most urgent, and clear the lowest word first. Protect your combo — when two words are close, accuracy beats speed. Save offensive items like bombs for when the board is crowded, and grab an extra life the instant it appears. Above all, do not panic when the water rises: a freeze or a slow can reset the whole board and buy you time.
Ready? Start a game, or practise Hangul typing first.