The six keys you’ve been holding since kindergarten.

Top-left of every keyboard on Earth. Billions of fingers press them every day and nobody ever got paid. Until now.

Go on, press Q W E R T Y on your keyboard.

Buy $QWERTY on Qhooks

CA: 0xebf69bb14d80e7c68f648fbae6050494923e480f

The QWERTY speedrun

Type Q W E R T Y as fast as you can. The clock starts on Q. A typo resets you, just like the market.

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Waiting for Q.
Your best: none yet

The Wednesday Challenge

Every Wednesday a new round of QWERTY Words goes live, with the bounty announced up front. Everyone gets the exact same tiles. You get 10 turns to build the highest score you can. Top score when the round closes takes the bounty.

Why Wednesday?

We held a vote among the six keys. Q has no day. E, R and Y don’t either, and they’re still upset about it. T has Tuesday and Thursday, couldn’t pick one, and was disqualified for greed. That left W, the only key in QWERTY with a whole day to itself.

W gets Wednesday. The rest of the keys get to watch. (Also, Wednesday has a silent D, and we respect anything that holds quietly.)

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Turn1 / 10
Tiles left0
Shift: double letter Caps Lock: double word Enter: triple word

Your keys

Tap a key, then tap a square to place it. Tap a placed key to take it back.

Place your first word on the dashed START square.

Your words

  1. Nothing played yet.
This week’s bounty
Closes
Next round
Last week’s winner

How scoring works

Keys are worth points by their row on the keyboard: top row (Q to P) 1 point, home row (A to L) 2 points, bottom row (Z to M) 3 points. Shift doubles a letter, Caps Lock doubles a word, Enter triples a word, but only on the turn you cover them.

The six QWERTY letters are gold keys. Play a word with 3 or more gold keys in it for a +10 Golden Keys bonus. Use all 7 of your keys in one turn for a +20 Full Keyboard bonus.

Words go left to right or top to bottom, must connect to keys already on the board, and every word you make has to be a real English word. Swapping all your keys uses up a turn.

⚠️ Read before you enter

You enter by pasting your public wallet address (it starts with 0x) into the entry form. You never connect your wallet to this site. Your public address is safe to share: it’s like an account number for receiving, and nobody can take anything from your wallet with it.

Robinhood Chain addresses only. $QWERTY lives on Robinhood Chain, so prizes are sent there. Only enter the address of a wallet you control that supports Robinhood Chain. Do not enter an exchange deposit address or an address from another blockchain: tokens sent there can be lost for good.

Copy and paste your address, don’t type it. Open your wallet, tap Receive or Copy address, and paste it into the form. Prizes go to the exact address you submit, so a typo or the wrong address means the prize is lost and can’t be sent again.

We will never ask for your recovery phrase or private key, ask you to connect your wallet, or ask you to sign or approve anything to claim a prize. Anyone who does, including someone pretending to be us in DMs, is a scammer.

Check a run code

Paste any run code to replay it and see its real score. Anyone can check any run, including the winner’s.

Hall of fame

Every winner, every score, and the transaction that paid them. Click a payout to see it on the blockchain.

The lore

In the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes rearranged the typewriter keys to stop the metal arms from jamming. He put six letters in the top-left corner and walked away. He had no idea what he’d started.

For 150 years, QWERTY sat there in plain sight. Every essay, every password, every angry email to customer service, every “asdfghjkl” typed in frustration. It powered the internet and it never asked for a thing.

You learned it before you could spell. You’ve pressed these keys more times than you’ve blinked at a chart. Technically, you’ve been accumulating QWERTY your entire life. You were early. You were always early.

Fun fact: “TYPEWRITER” can be typed using only the top row of letters. Sholes left that in as an easter egg, or as a sign. We choose sign.

Keynomics

1B

Total supply: 1,000,000,000 $QWERTY. One for every keyboard, roughly.

6

Keys. No more, no less. Dvorak need not apply.

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Ctrl+Z on the blockchain. Every press is final. Type with conviction.

∞

Times you’ve typed it already. Your fingers are long.

How to get your keys

  1. Get a walletSet up MetaMask or another wallet that supports Robinhood Chain. Write your recovery phrase on paper, not in a .txt file named “passwords”.
  2. Get some ETHGet ETH on Robinhood Chain in your wallet. You’ll use it to buy and to pay for gas.
  3. Find $QWERTYGo to Qhooks.com and search for the contract address. Check it matches the one on this page.
  4. Press EnterChoose an amount you’re fine losing, hit buy, and type QWERTY in the chat to let everyone know.

Questions people keep typing

Why QWERTY?

It’s the most-pressed brand in human history and it has zero marketing budget. Huge untapped potential.

Is Dvorak a threat?

We don’t talk about Dvorak. Twelve people use it and they’ll tell you about it within five minutes of meeting you.

What about AZERTY?

Our French cousins. Same energy, different croissant. We respect them from a distance.

What’s the utility?

You can type with it. That’s more than most meme coins can say.

Wen moon?

When enough people press the right six keys at the same time.

Is this financial advice?

No. This is a website about the top-left corner of a keyboard. Do your own research.