We Have 1,165 Songs. People Play 399 of Them.

There are 1,165 songs on SongTyping, 1,090 of them fully playable with lyrics and timings.

In the last 2,000 practice sessions, people played 399 of them.

Roughly a third of the catalogue accounted for all of the practice in that window, and the other two thirds sat untouched. That is not a complaint about our users. It is the normal shape of a catalogue, and once you look at it directly it changes what you think a music typing site is for.

Catalogue size is the easiest number to grow and the least useful

Adding songs is close to free. There is a pipeline: find the track, fetch the lyrics, find the video, pull the caption timings, check they line up. We could triple the number on the front page in a week and the sentence "thousands of songs" would get a little more impressive.

It would also not make a single person type faster.

The reason is visible in the 399. People do not arrive wanting a song, they arrive wanting their song, and the catalogue either has it or does not. Every song beyond the one they came for is inventory. Tripling the inventory raises the odds that the specific track someone wants is present, which is worth something - but it does nothing at all for the person already typing.

What makes somebody faster is the same twenty songs typed repeatedly until the words stop being a surprise, and the catalogue's job is to contain those twenty. Which twenty depends entirely on who is asking.

What the catalogue is made of

language	songs
English	1,002
Spanish	71
Hebrew	14
French	3
not yet detected	75

The genre tags skew the way you would expect from a catalogue built by request: pop, then rock, then ballads and classic rock, then hip-hop and rap.

And the shape of a typical song:

	median
length	3 minutes 44 seconds
pace	99 words per minute

That second number is the interesting one, and it is the reason a big catalogue can still be a badly chosen catalogue.

The median song is faster than you type

99 words per minute is the middle of our catalogue. Average typists sit around 40 WPM. A strong practical target for work or study is 60 to 70.

So the median song on this site is sung faster than most people can type it, and a quarter of the catalogue runs at 129 WPM or above. If you open a random song and feel like you are drowning, you are not bad at typing. You picked a song from the wrong half of the distribution.

This is also why two controls exist and why we would rather you used them than pushed through:

Slow the video down. 0.5x turns a 130 WPM song into a 65 WPM song and the timings scale with it, so the sync stays honest. A song you can type at 0.75x is worth ten runs at full speed that you spend three lines behind.

Turn on Easy mode. It strips capitals and punctuation. On a Spanish or French track it also strips the accents, which removes the part where you stop to find a key rather than to think about a word.

Our piece on how songs are graded goes into how that pace number is calculated and where it misleads - a fast song and a hard song are not the same thing, and repetition matters more than either.

How to choose, if the choice is yours

Pick something you know well enough to sing. Familiar lyrics mean your eyes stop doing the reading and your hands get the practice. This is the single biggest lever and it is the reason lyrics work better than sample paragraphs.

Pick something near your current speed, then one notch above. The site rates every song from Beginner to Expert from its own timings, and the typing test will tell you where you sit. Matching the two is not coddling; it is the difference between practising typing and practising falling behind.

Then stay there. Run three or four is where a song starts paying: the chorus comes round, you have typed those words before, and your hands go without waiting. The temptation to open something new after every run is the thing to resist, and the 399 suggests most people already do.

Use the repeats deliberately. Choruses are the most valuable part of a lyrics typing session because they drill the same common words several times in one sitting, which is exactly how everyday typing speed improves.

What we changed

The front page used to rank on plays. That is a feedback loop: the songs at the top get played because they are at the top, and 766 songs never get a chance to be anybody's twenty.

It now ranks on a mix of difficulty and how well known a song is, so the first screen has a spread of paces on it rather than the same handful of hits. And if what you want is not there, signing in lets you add almost anything to the catalogue in a few seconds - which is where most of those 1,165 came from in the first place.

A third of the catalogue in circulation is not a problem to solve. It is what a catalogue looks like when people are choosing for themselves.