Who doesn't like to type fast? I made mitype with an intention to test typing speed and hence improve it at the ease of one command.
Feel free to contribute 💚
⌨ 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 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…
Features-
- Supports several languages like English and German
- Choose your own text files
- Or randomly pick up a sample from 6000 entries
- View results and replay after every test
- Choose difficulty level
- Has cross-platform support
- Works with both python 2 and python 3
- Uses in-built python modules only
- Available on pypi allowing easy install
- Colored highlights
- Runs on web, although the latency is kinda high
How to get it?
pip install mitype
How to run it?
Choose random text:
mitype
To choose a sample file:
mitype -f <your_file>
Choose a difficulty level:
mitype -d <N>
Choose a text ID:
mitype -i <ID>
Built with
- Python and all its inbuilt modules
- Curses library - Easily capture keystrokes
- Sqlite3 - Database for storing text
- Text provided by typeracerdata.com
Mitype is open to feedback, contributions and new ideas 💡
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