What is Sandbagging?

In Klavia, sandbagging refers to intentionally slowing one's typing speed to achieve better accuracy.

Is Sandbagging Allowed?

Yes! There is nothing wrong with going at a slower speed to improve your accuracy. Everyone sandbags from time to time.

What is Aggressive Sandbagging?

Aggressive sandbagging is when you take this concept to the extreme, deliberately tanking your WPM to achieve high accuracy scores easily. At some point, this practice becomes unfair to other players, as your impressive accuracy score may not reflect your actual skill level. After all, anyone can hit 100% accuracy when typing at 1 WPM.

When Klavia detects that you've been sandbagging too aggressively, you incur a 2% penalty at the end of the race. To avoid the 2% accuracy penalty, you must stay above your sandbagging threshold.

Important: the sandbagging penalty only applies if your accuracy score for the race is 98% or higher. When the sandbagging penalty is applied, your adjusted accuracy will never go below 98%.