Start from one article and reach another using only internal links.
Example: get from “Bread” to “Wheat” by clicking Wikipedia links.
On Spanish Wikipedia, races that start on a big YouTuber take a median of 5 clicks; races that end on one take 14. Every Wikipedia link only points one way, and small articles have very few doors.
Measured from 27,792 finished races across 19 Wikipedia editions: every language routes through its own country and the United States, 100 articles carry a seventh of all traffic, and the only truly universal connectors are brand names.
Pair leaderboards, a campaign you can memorize, a daily challenge with the same pair for everyone: an honest comparison between WikiRacing and video game speedrunning culture.
WikiRacing is a Wikipedia racing game, free and played in the browser. You get a start article and a target article, and you have to connect them by clicking only the links in the article text, in as few clicks and as little time as you can. You don't need an account to play.
Pick a start article and a target, or let the dice draw two at random, then click links inside the article until you land on the target. There is no search bar: the only way forward is a link somebody actually wrote into the page. Every click is counted, and the clock starts once the first article has finished loading.
Take the campaign's first pair, Bread to Wheat. The instinct is to scan the Bread article for the word "wheat", but it may not be there as a link. It works better to ask what kind of thing the target is: wheat is a cereal crop, so a link to flour or farming is already heading the right way.
If you click the wrong link, the back button takes you to the previous article for one extra click.
If you plan to come back regularly, start with the campaign or the daily challenge. The campaign guide walks through the 300 levels, and the daily challenge guide explains how the pair is picked.
When you can't see a direct route, go through a very general article: a country, a century, a scientific field. Almost every article links to pages like these, and from there the target is often one or two clicks away. There is more detail in our 7 strategies for winning and our list of hub articles.
Every finished race can be replayed step by step: the replay shows the numbered list of articles you went through, and you can jump straight to any step. It is the easiest way to see where a friend found a shortcut you missed. The replay guide also covers sharing a race.
Only ranked duels count towards ELO. Everyone starts at 1000, the K factor is 32, and a rating never drops below 100. Casual races, the campaign and the challenges don't affect it. The maths is in our ELO explainer.
Switching language does more than translate the buttons: the game moves to a different edition of Wikipedia. In Japanese you race on ja.wikipedia.org, with its own articles and its own links. The editions don't cover the same topics in the same way, so a route that is easy in one language can be impossible in another. The guide to the 19 editions explains how it works.
An account is only there to keep your data: your ELO rating, badges, replays and campaign progress. The site works in any browser, and you can add it to your home screen.
Getting from one Wikipedia article to another through its links is a game almost as old as the encyclopedia, and it predates every site built for it. Stanford researchers turned it into a dataset called Wikispeedia, The Wiki Game made it a browser game, and the name never settled: people call it a wiki race, a wikirace, a wikigame or a Wikipedia speedrun. We have written up the history of the game, and small-world network theory explains why almost any pair connects in a few clicks.
WikiRacing adds live multiplayer, the daily challenge, the campaign and ranked duels.
Every finished race is recorded. Players have completed 29,361 races across 19 Wikipedia editions, for a combined 244,940 clicks. A typical race is settled in 8.3 clicks and about 4 min 28 s.
On the English Wikipedia alone, 3,261 races have been finished, averaging 8.9 clicks each. These are the articles players pass through most often on the way to a target: United States, Japan, Video game, France, United Kingdom, Italy.
Most of them are countries and broad subjects: pages that almost every article links to, which is why they work as junctions.
Figures taken from finished races, last refreshed on September 23, 2026.
You start on one Wikipedia article and click your way to a target article using only the links inside the text, no search bar allowed. Fastest route, fewest clicks, wins.
Completely. No signup, no account, no catch.
Yes. Share a room link and up to 5 of you race the same start-to-target route at once; when everyone finishes, the podium shows who got there first, second, and third.
All 19: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, Ukrainian, Czech, Arabic, and Chinese, each pulling from that language's own Wikipedia.
Across the races finished on this site so far, the average is about 8 clicks and roughly four and a half minutes. Easy campaign pairs often go in three or four; a hard pair between two unrelated topics can run well past thirty.
One start-and-target pair per language, identical for everybody, reset at midnight UTC. Because everyone races the same route, the daily leaderboard is the one ranking on the site where nobody got an easier draw. Playing on consecutive days builds a streak.
Yes. The back button returns you to the previous article and costs one extra click, the same as any other move. That is usually still cheaper than trying to claw your way out of a dead end.
It runs in any mobile browser with nothing to install. There are also free iOS and Android apps, and the site can be added to your home screen as a progressive web app if you prefer that.
Standard ELO with a K-factor of 32. Everyone starts at 1000, a win takes points from your opponent and a loss hands them over, and the rating never falls below 100. Only ranked duels move it: casual races, campaign levels, daily and themed challenges leave it untouched.
Same basic idea, different projects. Wikispeedia is a Stanford research project built on an offline Wikipedia snapshot; The Wiki Game is a casual browser race on the live encyclopedia. WikiRacing also races the live Wikipedia, and adds accounts, multiplayer, ranked duels, a 300-level campaign and 19 language editions on top.
