A command line tool to improve typing speed
Project description
What is it?
Mitype is a Python package to test (and hence improve) your typing speed right from the ease of your terminal.
Features
For Linux, Windows and macOS
Runs on python 3 and 2 both
No external dependencies*
Choose custom text from a file
And difficulty level
Or let the app decide! (From over 6000️ text sets)
Colored texts
For windows, you need windows-curses to run
Where to get it?
The source code is hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/mithil467/mitype
pip install mitype
That’s all if you are on linux and mac OS. If you are on windows, you also need windows-curses, which can be installed from pypi:
pip install windows-curses
How to run it?
Once installed, you can run it by
python -m mitype
You can choose difficulty in between 1 and 5.
`python -m mitype -d <value>
Example:
`python -m mitype -d 2
You can use text from your own file by
python -m mitype -f SampleTextFile
You can quit the app anytime by pressing the ESC key.
Do directly run from repo:
`python local_host.py`
Dependencies
For windows only - windows-curses.
Installation from sources
To install mitype from source -
In the mitype directory (same one where you found this file after cloning the git repo), execute:
python setup.py install
License
Test text is taken from data.db database which is a collection of 6000 strings taken from typeracerdata.com (not given under my license).
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