mitype 0.1.9

A command line tool to improve typing speed

⌨ 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

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).