A command line tool to improve typing speed
Project description
⌨ Mitype ⌨
Typing Speed Test in your Terminal
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
🎦 See your replay!
🐍 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 mithil467/mitype
pip install mitype
That's all if you are on Linux and macOS. 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 simply by
mitype
OR
python -m mitype
You can choose difficulty between 1 and 5.
mitype -d <value>
Example:
mitype -d 2
You can use text from your file by
mitype -f SampleTextFile
You can quit the app anytime by pressing the ESC key or CTRL-C. Note: If you are in replay mode, currently only CTRL-C is supported for exiting.
To directly run from clone without installing:
python -m mitype
You can also directly in your web browser.
Dependencies
For windows only - windows-curses.
Installation from sources
To install mitype from the source -
In the mitype directory (the 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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