diff --git a/types/balanced-match/balanced-match-tests.ts b/types/balanced-match/balanced-match-tests.ts
index c0edcc89a8..8690fdf27f 100644
--- a/types/balanced-match/balanced-match-tests.ts
+++ b/types/balanced-match/balanced-match-tests.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-import Balanced = require("balanced-match");
+import balanced = require('balanced-match');
 
-const balanced = new Balanced();
-
-balanced.balanced('{', '}', 'pre{in{nested}}post');
-balanced.balanced('{', '}', 'pre{first}between{second}post');
-balanced.balanced(/\s+\{\s+/, /\s+\}\s+/, 'pre  {   in{nest}   }  post');
+balanced('{', '}', 'pre{in{nested}}post');
+balanced('{', '}', 'pre{first}between{second}post');
+balanced(/\s+\{\s+/, /\s+\}\s+/, 'pre  {   in{nest}   }  post');
 balanced.range('{', '}', 'pre{in{nested}}post');
diff --git a/types/balanced-match/index.d.ts b/types/balanced-match/index.d.ts
index 952eba8ffa..d6de0e3e73 100644
--- a/types/balanced-match/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/balanced-match/index.d.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Type definitions for balanced-match 1.0
 // Project: https://github.com/juliangruber/balanced-match
 // Definitions by:  Adam Zerella <https://github.com/adamzerella>
+//                  Piotr Błażejewicz <https://github.com/peterblazejewicz>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 
 interface Output {
@@ -26,10 +27,27 @@ interface Output {
     post: string;
 }
 
-declare class Balanced {
-    balanced(a: string|RegExp, b: string|RegExp, str: string): Output|void;
+/**
+ *
+ * For the first non-nested matching pair of a and b in str, return an object with those keys:
+ * start the index of the first match of
+ * `end` the index of the matching b
+ * `pre` the preamble, a and b not included
+ * `body` the match, a and b not included
+ * `post` the postscript, a and b not included
+ * If there's no match, `undefined` will be returned.
+ * If the `str` contains more a than b / there are unmatched pairs,
+ * the first match that was closed will be used.
+ * For example, `{{a}` will match `['{', 'a', '']` and `{a}}` will match `['', 'a', '}']`
+ */
+declare function balanced(a: string | RegExp, b: string | RegExp, str: string): Output | void;
 
-    range(a: string|RegExp, b: string|RegExp, str: string): Output|void;
+declare namespace balanced {
+    /**
+     * For the first non-nested matching pair of `a` and `b` in `str`,
+     * return an array with indexes: `[ <a index>, <b index> ]`.
+     */
+    function range(a: string | RegExp, b: string | RegExp, str: string): Output | void;
 }
 
-export = Balanced;
+export = balanced;
diff --git a/types/balanced-match/tsconfig.json b/types/balanced-match/tsconfig.json
index d91bbdd539..6dd016abd3 100644
--- a/types/balanced-match/tsconfig.json
+++ b/types/balanced-match/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,25 +1,23 @@
 {
     "compilerOptions": {
-      "module": "commonjs",
-      "lib": [
-        "es6"
-      ],
-      "noImplicitAny": true,
-      "noImplicitThis": true,
-      "strictNullChecks": true,
-      "strictFunctionTypes": true,
-      "baseUrl": "../",
-      "typeRoots": [
-        "../"
-      ],
-      "types": [
-
-      ],
-      "noEmit": true,
-      "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
     },
     "files": [
-      "index.d.ts",
-      "balanced-match-tests.ts"
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "balanced-match-tests.ts"
     ]
 }
diff --git a/types/balanced-match/tslint.json b/types/balanced-match/tslint.json
index e60c15844f..3db14f85ea 100644
--- a/types/balanced-match/tslint.json
+++ b/types/balanced-match/tslint.json
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-{
-    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }