Leaderboard · macOS
Where do
you rank?
Pulse ranks your real typing speed each week — globally, by language, or against your persona. Anonymous, opt-in, and measured from how you actually type, not a one-off test.
Records
GlobalYour standing this week
Compare against
Top of this week
Pulse's real Records view — your standing, app mix, and the top of this week. See the live leaderboard →
What a typing leaderboard is actually worth
A global ranking of raw WPM is mostly noise. Someone clearing 110 words a minute in English chat is not doing the same job as someone holding 80 through brackets, semicolons and variable names. The number only means something once you compare it against people doing the work you do.
Your persona is the fair fight
Pulse reads your weekly app mix and sorts you into a Coder, Writer, or Mixed cohort, then ranks you inside it. A developer measured against transcriptionists always looks slow; against other developers, the gap is honest. Pair that with your own statistics and you can see whether a low rank is your speed or simply the symbols your language demands.
Sustained speed, not a sprint
The board uses your real typing across the week, not a 60-second burst. A typing test measures how fast you can go when you're paying attention; the leaderboard measures how fast you actually are when you forget you're being watched. The two numbers are usually far apart, and the second one is the one worth improving.
A reason to keep showing up
Rankings reset weekly, so a strong week never coasts and a slow one is never permanent. Used alongside typing streaks, it turns a private habit into something with a little gravity — without ever sending a word you typed. If that part still makes you wary, the whole privacy model is laid out in the privacy policy.
Ranked against people who type like you.
Coder, writer, or somewhere in between.
Leaderboard, answered.
How does the Pulse typing leaderboard work?
Pulse ranks your sustained typing speed (WPM) each week against other users — globally, by your language, or by your persona (Coder, Writer, Mixed). It’s anonymous and opt-in: you submit a daily anonymous figure, never what you type.
What is a persona?
Pulse infers a persona from your weekly app mix — mostly code, writing or chat. It lets you compare against people who type like you, not just everyone, so a developer isn’t measured against transcriptionists.
Is the leaderboard private?
Yes. Joining sends an anonymous UUID plus your weekly speed, accuracy, language and app-mix percentages — never app names, window titles, or the content of your typing. You can leave and wipe your data any time.
Does the leaderboard use a typing test or my real typing?
Your real typing. The rank is built from your sustained weekly speed across every app, not a one-off test — so it reflects how fast you actually are at work, not how fast you can sprint for sixty seconds.