🏎️ Car Racing

How to play

You drive the orange car up a three lane road while traffic comes down towards you. There is no accelerator: the road scrolls on its own and speeds up the further you get. All you do is change lanes to leave a gap where the next car is, and a collision costs one of your three lives.

• Left and right arrow keys — move one lane at a time. The car slides across rather than teleporting.
• A and D keys — the same as the left and right arrows.
• Swipe — on a touch screen, swipe left or right across the road to change lane.
• Space bar — starts a run when one is not already in progress.
• Start button — begins a run and becomes Restart, resetting score, lives and speed.

Scoring

Score is distance, counting up continuously while you drive, so it rises faster as the speed does. Speed starts at 3 and gains half a point for every 200 ticks of distance, up to a ceiling of 12. Traffic also spawns more often the further you go, and that keeps increasing after the speed has stopped rising. Crashing costs one of your three lives but does not reset the score, and the run ends when the third is gone.

Tips

• Commit to a lane change early. The car glides across rather than jumping, so a late decision can leave you between lanes.
• The middle lane gives you two escape routes; sitting in an outside lane leaves only one.
• Look at the top of the screen, not at your own car. That is where the information you need appears.
• Speed stops rising at 12 but the traffic keeps getting denser, so the late game is about reading gaps rather than reacting faster.

Frequently asked questions