💥 Survive
Tap the blocks before they vanish. Then it gets faster. Survive tests reaction endurance — free in your browser, no download, no signup. Survive is a solo mode with a world leaderboard — play it any time at blocks.pw/s/survival, no download or signup.
How to play Survive
- Blocks appear at random positions and vanish after a shrinking lifetime.
- Tap every block before it disappears.
- Miss enough and the run ends — you have limited lives.
- Score climbs the longer you survive; the pace climbs with it.
Rules and scoring
Endless escalation: what starts as leisurely target practice compresses into a blur of appear-tap-appear until your fingers file a complaint. Your score is how deep into the acceleration you survive — the world leaderboard is a ranking of breaking points.
The difficulty curve does the storytelling: everyone's run has a calm opening act, a competent middle, and a frantic collapse. Improvement means moving the collapse later.
Strategy: how to win at Survive
- Prioritise the oldest block, not the nearest — the one that appeared first dies first.
- Centre your gaze and use peripheral vision to catch spawns; chasing each block with your eyes fails past the mid-game.
- Two hands on mobile: split the screen into zones, one thumb each. Cuts travel time in half.
- When it gets frantic, breathe and keep rhythm — flailing misses more than it saves.
Where Survive fits
Solo scores post to the world leaderboard and your country leaderboard, so a good run means something. When you want a human opponent instead of a clock, the quick match duels pull from the same skills.