Command Racer: Race with Real Terminal Commands
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Type real commands. Win the race!
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About Command Racer
Every right letter is horsepower. Enter real commands, exactly, to speed your car past Bolt, Vex and Nova.
Command Racer uses only commands from the free lessons, level by level. Play it free in your browser, with no ads and no sign-up.
Guide How to play
- Pick a level and press Play. After the countdown, the commands roll along the bar under the road.
- Each right letter pushes your car forward. A wrong letter turns red and slows you down until you fix it.
- Keep a steady pace and nitro fires by itself. Finish first for the biggest bonus and three stars.
- Your best run is kept in this browser as a ghost car, so next time you race against yourself too.
Command Racer practises entering commands exactly, letter by letter: the spaces, the dots, the dashes and the backslashes. It is the same exactness the terminal asks for, so a command you can race with is one you can use.
Levels The commands in each level
Level 1: look and walk
dircd Documentscd ..cd my-projectdir imagescd imagescd ~cd Picturesdir Desktopcd Desktopcd Downloadsdir DocumentsFrom the lessons up to lesson 5, Meet the terminal.
Level 2: build and write
pwdlsls imagesmkdir gamesni ideas.txtmkdir my-gamesecho hicat notes.txtecho "Buy milk" > list.txtecho "Bread" >> list.txtcat list.txtclscd Documents\my-projectmkdir clubni club\members.txtFrom the lessons up to lesson 15, Level 2 test: Command Captain.
Level 3: copy, move, delete
copy notes.txt backup.txtmove backup.txt backupsren list.txt shopping.txtrm junk\old.txtrm notes.txt -WhatIfdir -Namehelp copyGet-Alias lscp fish.txt twin.txtmv twin.txt backupspython hello.pypython --versionmkdir backupsFrom the lessons up to lesson 24, Level 3 test: Safe Hands.
The fourth level, Every command, mixes all three. Not sure what a command does? Look it up in the Command Book or try it on the practice terminal.
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