Paris subway typing game

Type the station names of 16 Paris subway lines and ride them on the map. Choose a line below, or ride every line in a one-minute Express run.

The first Paris Métro line opened on July 19, 1900, between Porte Maillot and Porte de Vincennes, during the World’s Fair. That route is today’s Line 1. It reached Château de Vincennes in 1934, Pont de Neuilly in 1937 and La Défense in 1992, and it was converted to driverless operation between 2007 and 2011. Line 2 followed on December 13, 1900, and Lines 3, 5, 4, 7, 8 and 9 opened between 1904 and 1922.

Two lines began as the Nord-Sud company’s lines A and B, which opened in 1910 and 1911. The company was absorbed in 1930 and the lines became Lines 12 and 13. Line 11 opened on April 28, 1935. Lines 3bis and 7bis, the two short independent lines, were cut away from Lines 3 and 7 in 1971 and 1967.

Line 14 opened on October 15, 1998 as the first fully automatic line. In 2024 Line 11 was extended east to Rosny - Bois-Perrier and Line 14 was extended to Saint-Denis Pleyel and Aéroport d’Orly, which made it the longest line of the network. HelloSubway has all 16 lines of the Métro. The Grand Paris Express lines 15 to 18 are not open yet and are not included.

Station names keep their French spelling, such as Châtelet or Saint-Germain-des-Prés. You can type them with or without accents, so Chatelet works, but spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are typed as shown. Line 7 and Line 13 fork, and the game follows the Villejuif and Saint-Denis branches; the other branches are drawn dashed on the map.

Lines in Paris

• 1Line 125 stations · Lv 4/7 · ~371 keystrokes

  Line 1 opened on July 19, 1900, between Porte Maillot and Porte de Vincennes, to carry visitors between the sites of the World's Fair. It reached Château de Vincennes in 1934, Pont de Neuilly in 1937 and La Défense in 1992. Conversion to driverless operation ran from 2007 to 2011.

• 2Line 225 stations · Lv 3/7 · ~269 keystrokes

  Line 2 opened on December 13, 1900, between Porte Dauphine and Étoile, as part of the second wave of the Métro. It was extended to Anvers in 1902, to Rue de Bagnolet (now Alexandre Dumas) in January 1903, and reached Nation on April 2, 1903, completing its current route in a wide arc across the north of Paris.

• 3Line 325 stations · Lv 3/7 · ~291 keystrokes

  Line 3 opened on October 19, 1904, between Villiers and Père Lachaise. It reached Gambetta in January 1905, was pushed west to Pereire in 1910 and Porte de Champerret in 1911, and crossed into Levallois-Perret to Pont de Levallois - Bécon in 1937. In 1971 it was extended east from Gambetta to Gallieni, in the suburb of Bagnolet.

• 4Line 429 stations · Lv 4/7 · ~403 keystrokes

  Line 4 opened on April 21, 1908, between Porte de Clignancourt and Châtelet. The southern section, from Porte d'Orléans, opened in 1909, and in January 1910 the central section from Châtelet to Raspail joined the two halves together. It was extended south to Mairie de Montrouge in 2013 and to Bagneux - Lucie Aubrac in January 2022, taking it beyond the city limits.

• 5Line 522 stations · Lv 3/7 · ~290 keystrokes

  Line 5 opened on June 2, 1906, between Gare d'Austerlitz (then called Gare d'Orléans) and Place d'Italie, and grew northward over the following years. On October 12, 1942 it was extended from Gare du Nord to Église de Pantin, and on April 25, 1985 it reached Bobigny - Pablo Picasso, its current northern terminus outside the city limits.

• 6Line 628 stations · Lv 3/7 · ~310 keystrokes

  Line 6 grew from several pieces. On October 2, 1900 the section between Étoile and Trocadéro opened as an extension of line 1; it reached Passy on November 6, 1903, and Place d'Italie on April 24, 1906, crossing the Seine on the viaduct at Passy. The section from Place d'Italie to Nation opened in 1909, and in 1942 the pieces were joined into the present route, a half-circle around the south of the city.

• 7Line 733 stations · Lv 5/7 · ~507 keystrokes

  Line 7 opened on November 5, 1910, between Opéra and Porte de la Villette. On May 1, 1946 a branch reached Mairie d'Ivry in the south; the Villejuif branch followed in 1985. In the north the line was extended to Fort d'Aubervilliers in 1979 and to La Courneuve - 8 mai 1945 in 1987. It splits at Maison Blanche, and the route you type here follows the Villejuif branch; the Mairie d'Ivry branch is drawn dashed on the map.

• 8Line 838 stations · Lv 6/7 · ~593 keystrokes

  Line 8 opened on July 13, 1913, between Beaugrenelle and Opéra. It was pushed north to Richelieu - Drouot in 1928 and on to Porte de Charenton in 1931, and in 1937 it was rerouted from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to a new terminus at Balard. It crossed the Marne into the suburbs and reached Créteil - Préfecture in 1974, then Pointe du Lac in 2011. The route runs from the southwest of Paris under the Grands Boulevards and out to the southeast.

• 9Line 937 stations · Lv 5/7 · ~512 keystrokes

  Line 9 opened on November 8, 1922, between Trocadéro and Exelmans, and over the next years it was extended step by step. It first reached the suburbs at Pont de Sèvres on February 3, 1934, and on October 14, 1937 it was extended east to Mairie de Montreuil. The route crosses the 16th arrondissement, the Grands Boulevards and the eastern districts, from Boulogne-Billancourt to Montreuil.

• 10Line 1020 stations · Lv 3/7 · ~296 keystrokes

  Line 10 opened in 1923 and was extended east to Gare d'Austerlitz in 1939 and west to Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud in 1981. It runs across the Left Bank and the Auteuil district into Boulogne-Billancourt. In the Auteuil section the trains run in a one-way loop: Michel-Ange - Molitor and Chardon-Lagache are served only toward Austerlitz, while Église d'Auteuil, Michel-Ange - Auteuil and Porte d'Auteuil are served only toward Boulogne.

• 11Line 1119 stations · Lv 2/7 · ~246 keystrokes

  Line 11 opened on April 28, 1935, between Châtelet and Porte des Lilas, and was extended to Mairie des Lilas in 1937. On June 13, 2024 it was extended east with six new stations, reaching Rosny - Bois-Perrier. The route climbs from the city centre through the Marais and Belleville to the eastern suburbs of Les Lilas, Romainville, Montreuil and Rosny-sous-Bois.

• 12Line 1231 stations · Lv 5/7 · ~441 keystrokes

  Line 12 was built by the Nord-Sud company, which opened it in 1910 between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and it was extended to Pigalle in 1911 and Jules Joffrin in 1912. The Nord-Sud was absorbed by the CMP in 1930 and the line became line 12. On March 24, 1934 it was extended south to Mairie d'Issy, and it was extended north to Front Populaire in 2012 and to Mairie d'Aubervilliers in 2022. It links Montparnasse, Saint-Germain, the Madeleine, Montmartre and the northern suburbs.

• 13Line 1326 stations · Lv 4/7 · ~406 keystrokes

  Line 13 combines two former lines: the Nord-Sud company's line B, which opened between Saint-Lazare, La Fourche and Porte de Saint-Ouen on February 26, 1911 and reached Porte de Clichy in 1912, and a southern line to Châtillon. The two were joined in 1976 into a single north-south line. It was extended north to Gabriel Péri in 1980 and to Saint-Denis - Université on May 25, 1998. North of La Fourche the line splits into two branches, toward Saint-Denis - Université and toward Asnières - Gennevilliers - Les Courtilles; the typing route follows the Saint-Denis branch.

• 14Line 1421 stations · Lv 3/7 · ~303 keystrokes

  Line 14, the first fully automatic line of the Paris métro, opened on October 15, 1998 between Madeleine and Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. It was extended to Saint-Lazare on December 16, 2003, to Olympiades on June 26, 2007, and to Mairie de Saint-Ouen on December 14, 2020. On June 24, 2024 it was extended north to Saint-Denis Pleyel and south to Aéroport d'Orly, making it the longest line of the network.

• 3bLine 3bis4 stations · Lv 1/7 · ~45 keystrokes

  Line 3 was extended from Gambetta to Porte des Lilas on November 27, 1921, with stops at Pelleport and Saint-Fargeau. When line 3 was extended to Gallieni on April 2, 1971, this branch was cut off to form its own line, 3bis. At 1.3 kilometres and four stations it is the shortest line of the Paris métro.

• 7bLine 7bis8 stations · Lv 1/7 · ~85 keystrokes

  On January 18, 1911 the section between Louis Blanc and Pré-Saint-Gervais opened as a branch of line 7. On December 3, 1967, because ridership on the two northern branches of line 7 was so uneven, this branch was separated and became its own line, 7bis. With eight stations and 3.1 kilometres it is the second shortest line of the network, and it ends in a small loop through Place des Fêtes, Pré-Saint-Gervais and Danube.

Stories about Paris

• TypingAll 16 Paris Métro lines, ranked by how hard they are to typeCounting only the letters you have to press, Line 11 takes 246 keystrokes to finish and Line 8 takes 593. Here is the whole ranking, from 3bis to Line 8.
• TypingTyping Paris Métro station names without accents84 of the 309 stations you can type in Paris have an accent in their name. You do not need the accented keys, and this is how the game decides what counts as a mistake.
• HistoryThe Paris Métro in eight dates: from Line 1 in 1900 to Line 14 in 2024Line 1 opened during the 1900 World's Fair. A century later Line 14 became the first driverless line, and in 2024 it grew to Orly airport.

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