FAQ & About

Pick a beat, hit start, and follow the bouncing ball. Every fourth beat a word drops on the drop. Say or rap that word right as the ball lands, and the next rhyme lines up. It is the free browser version of the say the word on beat challenge: no sign-up, works on phone and desktop.

With the mic on, the game listens for the moment each word leaves your mouth. A word lands on the 4th beat of its bar; saying it within about half a beat of the drop counts as a hit, and within 120 ms is a clean hit. Your score is clean words out of total, like 12/16, plus your average milliseconds off the drop. Sounds that aren't words show up as extra sounds.

Three common causes: the word was too quiet or mumbled: say it crisply, the way you'd land it in a verse; background music or chatter masked it (those show up as extra sounds); or you clapped or tapped: the mic listens for speech, not percussion. A quiet room and a sharp delivery fix most misses.

No. The mic check runs entirely on your device. An on-device speech detector just notes the moment each word starts. No audio is recorded, stored, or uploaded; our servers only see anonymous timing stats when a run finishes. Full details in the privacy policy.

Just saying the words on the beat is the whole game. No flow, no lyrics, no freestyle skills required. Rappers use it as a freestyle warm-up, but plenty of players treat it as a pure rhythm word game. If you can say "flow… grow…" as the ball lands, you can play.

Yes. Pick the Lo-Fi beat (85 BPM), keep hints on Full, and drop to 8 bars. That is the gentlest setup. When you want it harder, raise the BPM, cut the hints, or switch the rhyme scheme.

Start slower than you think. We audio-analyzed 158 freestyle type beats in our beat library: lo-fi sits at 85 BPM, boom bap near 94, and drill, trap and grime cluster at 140. If you are new, 85 to 100 BPM leaves room to think; the 140 BPM styles are double-time, so they feel like fast 70. The game handles the timing either way: the ball and the word cards always follow the measured beat.

Every week we publish the most-practiced freestyle beats chart, ranked by real sessions from anonymous practice logs, with measured BPM and true finish rates. The current pattern: the most-finished beats cluster at 90-92 BPM boom bap, while the chart's fastest entries (140 BPM and up) bottom out at an 11% finish rate. If you want a beat other rappers have already proven they can finish, that chart is the shortlist.

Three steps, no audience needed: put on a slow beat and say one rhyming word at the end of each bar; when that stops feeling scary, fill the rest of the bar with anything that leads to the rhyme; record yourself once a week to hear the progress. The game on this site is step one made playable: it hands you the rhyme words and (with the mic on) scores whether you actually landed them on the beat. The full drill breakdown is in How to Freestyle Rap.

Pick Add your own beat in the beat selector and paste any YouTube or SoundCloud link. The analyzer detects the BPM and intro automatically. If the tempo feels half-speed or double-speed, tap ×2 / ÷2 to correct it, and the ⇤ / ⇥ sync buttons fine-tune the ball to the beat.

Yes. Hit Challenge a friend on the practice screen (or after a run) and send the link to anyone. They play the exact same beat, words and difficulty, then you compare how many bars each of you landed clean. Scores are honor-system, like Wordle.

Yes. Open it in any smart TV browser or cast your screen, then take turns on the same challenge link and compare who lands more bars. People already play the YouTube versions of this challenge exactly this way: TV on, friends and family taking turns.

Free, right here: paste any YouTube or SoundCloud beat with Add your own beat, pick a word topic and difficulty, then hit Challenge a friend: you get a unique link to send to friends. No account, no paywall, unlimited rounds.

Email [email protected]. We read everything. Two things that get a fix fastest: if a custom beat feels off (tempo wrong, ball doesn't match the drop), paste the beat link and tell us what felt wrong. If something else broke or feels bad, tell us what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead, plus your device and browser (e.g. iPhone 15 / Safari).

The Rhyme Game is a free browser game for practicing freestyle rap timing. A ball bounces on the beat; every fourth beat a rhyme word drops, and you say it out loud as the ball lands. With the mic on, an on-device speech detector scores your timing in milliseconds. No account, no download, nothing recorded.

A TikTok challenge that blew up in late 2025: words appear on screen and you say or rap each one exactly on the beat. It grew out of a Thai kids' chant (“Moo Ma Ga Gai”: pig, dog, crow, chicken) posted by @robgongfriend in September 2025, and spread through a CapCut template. The Rhyme Game is a free browser version of it: a bouncing ball marks the beat, word cards drop on the drop, and optional mic scoring checks how on-beat you actually were.

Yes, completely free, with no account and no download. The freestyle practice game and the rhyme dictionary all run in your browser.

No app needed. The Rhyme Game runs entirely in your browser. No app store, no account. If you searched for a “rhyme game app”, this is it, minus the install.

Words that share the same ending sound, like “flow” and “grow.” The practice game lines up words in rhyme pairs, and the dictionary matches them by sound with the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so it is about pronunciation, not spelling.

AI drafts them, then a person reads every line and decides what ships. The drafts give us coverage: hundreds of bars across the rhyme families, each ending on the target word at rapping length. What they don't give is taste. Roughly one pair in fifteen gets rewritten or fixed on review. What survives has to sound like something a rapper would actually say on the beat. Couplet pairs get checked twice, once per line and once as a pair, because the two lines have to add up to one thought.

Yes. It runs in any modern browser on phones, tablets, and laptops. Nothing to install.

Yes. Spanish rhyme packs are live. Browse the Spanish rhyme dictionary (palabras que riman con amor, luna, tiempo…) and tap Practice to play any family on beat with Spanish word cards.

Only anonymous usage stats. Scores and streaks are stored locally on your own device, not on our servers.

An independent builder who likes word games. The rhyme engine is built on the open CMU Pronouncing Dictionary from Carnegie Mellon University.

A public-domain pronunciation dictionary of North American English maintained by Carnegie Mellon University. It records how over 100,000 words are pronounced, which lets us judge rhymes by sound rather than spelling.

Yes. The game is a classic freestyle drill made playable. As one freestyler put it on r/freestylerap:

"Put on a beat that's not too fast and pull up a random word generator… the whole goal is just to say one word that rhymes at the end of each bar. The rhyming is the hardest part, so as you build your associations, it frees up a ton of mental bandwidth to fill the rest with shit that actually makes sense."

The same log: "I started literally only being able to do like 2 bars or 30 seconds, and gradually progressed to 40 mins to an hour." Reps are the whole secret.

Web Curios featured it: you "play at being a rapper, scored on how accurately your flow keeps the time… surprisingly fun."