Your stratagem code has three downs in a row. That is where it dies.

All 92 of them are in the reference table on this page, drawn as arrows, grouped by permit, with each one’s published cooldown, unlock level and cost beside it. They were read from the Helldivers Wiki stratagem tables on 12 September 2026 and the page carries that date, because Arrowhead publishes no machine-readable list and codes move when the game moves. Treat an old date as a number worth re-checking in game.

Usually at one specific press rather than randomly, and the likeliest suspect is a repeated direction. Going from one direction to another lets two fingers take turns — the second can start moving while the first finishes. Pressing the same direction twice gives you no second finger to hide behind: the finger has to clear the switch and land again, and that travel is dead time the game is counting. The drill on this page times both kinds of gap on your own hand and tells you which of your attempts died on which.

Measure before you practise, because the usual advice — run the whole code a hundred times — mostly drills the part you are already good at. Run twenty attempts here, read your repeat penalty, and if it is well above your direction-change gap then the run of same-direction presses is your ceiling, not the code. Drill the run on its own, then re-measure. If the penalty is near zero, speed is not your problem and memorising more codes is the better use of the evening.

Yes, and it is worth knowing which way round you want it: Options › Mouse & Keyboard › Stratagem Input lets you pick WASD or the arrows, and there is a separate option to keep moving while you enter a code. Putting codes on the arrow keys is what lets you keep running on WASD while you type. This page accepts both without asking which you chose, because what it measures — how long your hand takes between two presses — is the same question whichever four keys you are on. The full verified binding list is on /controls/helldivers-2/.

Nine inputs, held by the TD-220 Bastion MK XVI. Most codes sit between four and six. Length is not what makes a code hard, though: a six-input code made entirely of direction changes is usually easier to produce than a five-input code that ends in three of the same direction, which is exactly what the drill on this page is built to show you.

You can select two backpack stratagems, but you have one back — pick up the second and it replaces the first, so one of your four slots was spent on something you will never wear. The audit on this page flags it from the deck you build. It counts only the thirteen stratagems the wiki files as backpacks; some support weapons arrive with a backpack of their own and that pairing is not published in a table this page can read, so the check under-reports rather than over-reports.

The mission board on this page works it out from the published base cooldown: one call at the start plus one per completed cooldown. It is a ceiling, not a forecast. Ship upgrades shorten cooldowns and are not modelled here, some stratagems carry a per-mission use limit that is not in the source table, and Eagle rearm is shared across every Eagle you brought rather than being the number in the cooldown column.

That is what this page is. The community trainers are randomisers: they show you one of 92 codes at random and grade it right or wrong. Nobody takes a random loadout into a dive, so most of that practice is never cashed in. Here you pick the four you actually bring, and the drill cycles those four in order — which also means every code gets the same number of attempts, so the per-code reading is comparable.