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StonkRider
StonkRider is a free browser game where you ride a dirt bike along real stock charts, jumping over price swings and trying to land without crashing. Pick a company, choose a stretch of its history and turn a financial graph into a motocross course.
The bike airborne above GameStop’s price chart in StonkRider.
- Cost
- Free to play
- Start
- No account or download needed to ride
- Controls
- Keyboard or phone touch controls
- Play
- Solo rides with score and time leaderboards
What is StonkRider?
StonkRider turns a price chart into the ground beneath a motorbike. You accelerate across the line, adjust the bike’s angle and jump between slopes while collecting coins and building a score. A steep fall in the market becomes a very literal drop.
You do not need to follow stocks to enjoy it. Company names give the courses a bit of context, but the challenge is reading the next slope and landing the bike. The charts are scenery you can ride, not a trading account.
How do you control the bike?
On a computer, hold the up arrow for gas and use the left and right arrows to tilt the bike. Space jumps, Shift or N activates nitro, and R resets the run. Click the game area first if the keyboard is not responding.
Start by concentrating on landing both wheels along the slope. Once that feels comfortable, try more rotation in the air. The game rewards tricks and streaks, but overdoing a rotation can wipe out the advantage. Nitro is easier to handle once you can see where the track is going.
Which stock chart should you ride first?
The home page labels its suggested tracks by difficulty. The S&P 500 ETF is marked Easy, while GameStop is marked Medium. Those are sensible places to start before choosing one of the steeper historical crashes.
Before riding, you can inspect the chart and choose a period such as three months, six months or a year. That makes choosing a course part of the fun: you are picking a shape as much as a stock. Historical names such as Enron and Lehman Brothers offer a more pointed version of the joke.
Are these real charts, and can you compete?
The creator says stock prices come from Yahoo Finance and historical data for defunct companies comes from public market-cap archives. A separate startup mode uses founder-published revenue from TrustMRR. Treat the result as a game built from data, rather than a tool for making financial decisions.
There are separate score and fastest-time leaderboards, plus a daily challenge. You ride on your own; comparing results does not mean other bikes are racing beside you. The basic ride starts without asking you to create an account.
Can you play on a phone?
Yes. Accelerating, balancing the bike and restarting work on a phone. The touch instructions use the left and right sides of the screen for tilting and both sides for gas. On a computer, separate keys handle acceleration, balance and jumping.
The landscape scrolls quickly and the bike can spin through the air. If that sort of motion bothers you, this is one to skip rather than push through.
What we like about StonkRider
The chart is doing real work here. It changes the course you ride, so the market theme is more than a label pasted onto an ordinary bike game. A sudden drop has a payoff you feel immediately.
We like the quick route from picking a chart to riding it, and the way a simple landing can become a reason to try again. It takes a little practice to judge the bike’s angle. That is part of the appeal if you like small physical challenges, but less appealing if you just want to watch something happen.
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