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A command line tool to improve typing speed

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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

GPL

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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