diff --git a/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix b/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix
index edb91e164fec..1282dec2a8fd 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "typespeed-0.6.5";
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
-  configureFlags = "--with-highscoredir=/tmp";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/typespeed-0.6.5.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "5c860385ceed8a60f13217cc0192c4c2b4705c3e80f9866f7d72ff306eb72961";
   };
+
+  patches = [ ./typespeed-config-in-home.patch ];
+
+  configureFlags = "--datadir=\${out}/share/";
 }