Office Break Games

Quick games

Typing race

Same sentence, same start, everyone types it as fast and as cleanly as they can. Finally, a use for all that email.

Players
2–20
Time
5–10 min

What you need

  • A computer each
  • A shared text to type

How to play

  1. Share one paragraph everyone can see.
  2. On "go", everyone types it into an empty document.
  3. Stop at one minute; count the words typed correctly.
  4. Most correct words wins; typos cost a word each.

Office tip: Use a paragraph from your own company’s handbook. Someone might finally read it.

Where it works