NodeQuest
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n8n practice exercises: 38 broken workflows you fix
Reading the docs tells you what a node does. It does not tell you where the If node goes in this workflow — and that reflex is the thing clients pay for. NodeQuest is 38 short exercises, each one a broken n8n automation you repair by wiring nodes until it runs.
Try the first 4 levels free →No signup, no install, no n8n instance needed. Runs in the browser.
Why practice, and not another tutorial
Watching someone connect nodes is passive: you recognise the answer when you see it, which feels like knowing it. Fixing a workflow that does not run is active: you get an error, you form a hypothesis, you test it. That is the same loop a real client job runs on, so the skill transfers.
Every exercise here is deliberately broken in one place. One wrong connection, one missing filter, one node in the wrong order. Find it, fix it, run it, pass.
What you actually practise
- Triggers — what starts a workflow, and why the same job needs a different trigger in production.
- Filters and conditions — the classic beginner mistake: putting the If node after the action it was supposed to guard.
- Branching — two paths out of one node, and keeping them honest.
- Loops and iteration — running over a list instead of one item.
- Error handling — what happens to the workflow when the API call fails on item 47 of 50.
- Multi-tool chaining — passing data between nodes without losing it.
- Fan-in — merging several paths back into one without duplicating rows.
Solved levels export as real n8n JSON
This is the part that makes it practice rather than a game: when a level runs, you can export that workflow as n8n JSON and import it into your own instance. So the 38 exercises double as 38 working reference workflows you can open, read and reuse — not screenshots of someone else's screen.
Free vs paid
Free: the first 4 levels, no signup. Enough to find out whether the format works for you.
$9.99 once: all 38 levels, sandbox mode, and JSON export of every solved workflow. No subscription, no account required to start.
For people who teach automation
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Questions
Do I need to install n8n first? No. The game runs in the browser; you export JSON when you want to move a solution into a real instance.
Is this a course? No video, no chapters. It is a set of exercises with hints — you solve them in the order you want.
Is it for complete beginners? The first levels assume you have seen the n8n canvas once. If you have never opened it, do n8n's own intro first, then come here for the practice.
Does it work on a tablet? Yes, it runs in any modern browser, including mobile.