Emoji Ninja: Type to Slash

Emoji fly up the screen. You type their names to slash them before they land. That is the whole game, and it reads in about four seconds. The keyboard is the controller — there is nothing to tap, nothing to swipe, nothing to aim. THE GAME LEARNS HOW FAST YOU TYPE Most games hand you an easy, medium and hard button and hope one of them fits. Emoji Ninja measures your real typing speed while you play, and moves the spawn interval, the fall time and the length of the words with it. A slow typist gets a rhythm game. A fast typist gets something frantic. Both are playing the game that was built for them, and neither had to choose. A HUNDRED LEVELS, AND A REAL SUMMIT The ladder runs to level 100, where Grandmaster asks for 60 words a minute with the whole emoji set in play. Getting there is a genuine climb — the difficulty curve was measured by running ten modelled typists through every…