Subway Map Game & Typing Practice

What is the Subway Typing Game?

The K-jihacheol typing game is a browser game where you type the station names of a real subway line in order, from the first station to the terminus. Lines from 11 cities in 4 countries are playable instantly on PC and mobile with no install — practice typing, memorize a line, or learn station names before a trip.

How to Play

1. Choose a city and line, and the first station appears on a station sign.
2. Type the station name in the input box. The timer starts the moment you type the first character.
3. A correct answer moves you to the next station automatically — no Enter needed — and the train on the map advances one stop.
4. Pressing Enter on a wrong answer counts as one typo and clears the input.
5. When you reach the terminus, your time, keystrokes per minute and typos are shown and compared with your best.

Input Languages

The same line becomes a completely different game depending on the input language. You can switch anytime on the line list or at the top of the game screen.

• Local: type the name exactly as written on the station sign — Hangul in Korea, kanji and kana in Japan, Chinese characters in Taipei. The most authentic mode.
• English: type the romanized English name. Enjoy overseas lines without a Korean or Japanese keyboard.
• Korean: type overseas station names as Korean transliterations. Great for learning Tokyo, Osaka, New York and Taipei stations in Hangul.

Difficulty

Difficulty is mainly set by the number of stations on a line, but name length and input language also change how hard it feels.

Beginner

20 stations or fewer. Finishable in 1–3 minutes — ideal for a first try or a quick game on mobile.

Intermediate

21–35 stations. Long enough to demand focus and good for cutting down typos.

Advanced

36 stations or more. Long routes like Seoul Line 2 and metropolitan commuter lines, where simply finishing is a challenge.

With the same station count, English mode is harder because names get longer, and Local mode is harder on Japanese and Taiwanese lines that need kanji/kana conversion.

Records and Scoring

• Time: measured to 0.1 s from your first keystroke until the last station is correct.
• KPM: keystrokes per minute, showing your typing speed.
• Typos: the number of times you pressed Enter on a wrong answer.
• Best: your best time per line is saved in this browser, and “New record!” appears when you beat it.

Tips

• Spaces, hyphens, middle dots and text in parentheses are ignored, so you can skip them.
• In English mode, abbreviations such as Street↔St, Avenue↔Av and 42nd↔42 are accepted.
• On Japanese lines, katakana and hiragana are treated as the same characters.
• The sign also shows the previous and next stations — read ahead to save time.
• Use the full-screen button to focus, and the speaker button to mute sound effects.

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