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Your own monkeys, your own settings. Nothing here touches the live round, and your settings are remembered on this browser. They type uniformly at random on a 41-key typewriter; a correct key advances them, any wrong key sends them back to the start.

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to be or not to be

Keystrokes
0
Simulated time
0 ms
Watched for
0ms
Population
12

What this run actually costs

Expected keystrokes
1.10 × 10^29
Expected time, 12 monkeys at 8/s
3.63 × 10^19 years
For scale
2.6B× the age of the universe

Expected keystrokes for a target of length n is k + k² + … + kⁿ, with k = 41. Every character added multiplies the cost by 41.

18 typeable characters.

keys/sec
× real time

The monkeys always type at 8 keys/sec. This fast-forwards the clock — one second of watching becomes 3 years of typing. Type an exact value like 1e18.

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The monkeys