Published on 2026-08-19
Manual mode lets you pick any two articles yourself. The daily challenge hands everyone the same pair. Themed challenges sit in between: you pick a theme, the game picks five (or three, or ten) races for you, back to back, and your total time and click count decide where you land on that theme's leaderboard.
Science 🔬, History ⚔️, Pop Culture 🎬, Gaming 🎮, and Streamers 📺 are the five curated pools, each holding 20-plus article pairs per language. Every pair in a given theme was picked by hand rather than pulled randomly off Wikipedia, so a History run reliably lands on empires and revolutions instead of drifting into an unrelated tangent.
Every themed pair is built the same way: the themed article is the destination, not the starting point. A Pop Culture race might start you on an ordinary, unrelated article and send you hunting for your way to a specific film or celebrity — rather than starting on the celebrity itself and wandering off into everyday territory. It keeps the theme as the goal you're racing toward, not a launchpad you leave behind on click one.
A segmented control on the picker lets you choose how many races make up your run before you start. Short on time? Three rounds. Want a proper session? Ten. The game shuffles that theme's whole pool and slices off however many pairs you asked for, so a 10-round run isn't just the same five pairs played twice — it's a genuinely bigger sample of the pool.
Because a 3-round sprint and a 10-round marathon aren't really the same competition, each theme's leaderboard is split by how many rounds you played — your 5-round total time is only ever ranked against other 5-round runs of that same theme, in your language. Nobody's comparing your quick warm-up against someone else's full ten-round grind.
Themed challenges aren't only a solo mode — a host can launch a themed challenge lobby, share the room link, and everyone races the exact same shuffled pairs from the same room. Each player still moves through the rounds at their own pace, and the room gets its own live ranking by total time on top of the regular global leaderboard.
Whether you know your Nobel laureates, your medieval battles, your box office hits, your speedrun history, or your favorite streamer's real name, there's a themed challenge built to test it — pick one, pick a length, and see how your total time stacks up.