( CNN ) -- If you 're like most people , me included , you may have trouble running an Olympics hurdle race without pulling a muscle . Google is here to help . The Internet giant on Tuesday embellished its search page with an animated , interactive doodle that lets users run the hurdles by tapping on their keyboards . Tapping the arrow keys makes the hurdler run , while hitting the space bar helps him leap over the 10 hurdles in his path . Each effort is timed , and runners can earn up to three virtual stars -- think of them as gold , silver or bronze medals . ( Note from , ahem , personal experience : If you fail to clear a single hurdle , you win nothing and your runner hangs his head dejectedly at the finish line . ) Bored office drones , say goodbye to your workplace productivity . Google 's online hurdle race coincides , of course , with track and field events this week at the London Olympics . The brief animation is the latest in an occasional series of interactive Google doodles commemorating special events . Past doodles have let users observe a lunar eclipse , play notes on a virtual synthesizer to observe the 78th birthday of Robert Moog and elude ghosts in a playable online version of Pac-Man , the classic arcade game . Google users were posting their best hurdle times on Twitter and elsewhere Tuesday and challenging others to beat them . Anything under 15 seconds is pretty speedy . No word on whether U.S. Olympians Dawn Harper or Lolo Jones had given it a try .
Google added an interactive hurdle race to its search page Tuesday . The animated doodle lets users leap over hurdles by tapping their keyboards . Users were posting their best times on Twitter and challenging others to beat them .