Google is going for the gold medal in Doodling during this year's Olympic games with an interactive doodle that lets you 'compete' in hurdles with your computer keyboard.

PHOTOS: Google's Olympics 2012 doodles

PHOTOS: Google doodles through the years

The doodle is live now in parts of the world where it is already Tuesday. You can check it out on Google's Australia home page. It will be featured on Google's U.S. homepage at midnight ET.

You can play it right now at www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012.

Just click on the "play" button to get started. Use your keyboard arrow keys to get your legs pumping down the track and the space bar to jump over a hurdle. You can time yourself and share your result on Google+ if you like. (The interactive doodle will reward you with one, two or three gold coins depending on how well you do.)

Each day since the opening ceremony in London, Google has remade its logo with one of its popular doodles to celebrate the Olympic games. The tradition goes back to the Sydney games.

Doodles for the 2012 games so far have included archery, diving, fencing, rings, field hockey, table tennis, shot put, pole vault, synchronized swimming and javelin. As is the custom, clicking on a doodle drills you down to a search results page with information on the sport, recent results from London and a schedule for the event.

Google's Doodle team seems to be having fun with the Olympic doodle series. Doodle team lead Ryan Germick says he updated Monday's javelin doodle a little while ago to include a nod to NASA's celebrated Mars rover landing to add it as a background image.

Engineer Kris Hom, who, along with Michael Levin and a team of engineers, was instrumental in creating the playable hurdles doodle, says he posted one of the first "three coin" scores when the doodle first went live on one of the company's Pacific homepages.

You can use a game controller to play the hurdle doodle, says Hom. It works with Google's Chrome browser and very recent versions of Firefox. "It's a very cool experience,'' he says.