typos

Typing speed test in terminal written in C++ using ncurses.

made by tmaluh a.k.a _ipal a.k.a MrChebys a.k.a ...

Features:

• You can move across already typped characters with Arrow Keys.
• Deleting input of current word by pressing Ctrl+Backspace, or if you at the start of the word - this shortcut will move the cursor to begin of the previous word.
• When words are ended, but time still ticking - you will start typing the same words from the beginning again. (Statistic will not be reset until the time is over)
• You can reset the current test with Tab, or on the Stats Screen with Enter.
• Under all the words displaying also prints previous, current, and next word to type with the current character always at the center of the screen.
• Displaying the timer.
• Detailed statistics.

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Statistics:

• WPM: The correct way of calculating WPM including corrected typos. _{Net WPM}
• RAW WPM: WPM without any typos calculations. _{Gross WPM}
• REAL WPM: Calculating Net WPM, but with all typos what you ever made in your life ... _{Net WPM v2}
• TYPED: Count of all typed characters.
• CPS: Characters Per Second.
• TYPOS: Corrected typos.
• REAL TYPOS: All typos that you made.
• ACC: Accuracy with corrected typos.
• REAL ACC: Accuracy with all typos.

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Flags:

• -h: Prints this help message.
• -t <seconds>: Number of maximum time to type in seconds. _{Accepts only positive integer in range: 10 - 240; Default: 60.}
• -w <number>: Number of maximum words to type. _{Accepts only positive integer in range: 10 - 150; Default: 42;}
• -S <path>: Full path to file where your stats will be saved. _{Default: ./typos.log;}
• -o <fmt_str>: Stats format string. _{Valid format options: |wrRtcTCaA; Default: wrR|tc|TC|aA;}
  • |: Delimiter.
  • w: Net WPM.
  • r: Gross WPM.
  • R: Net WPM v2.
  • t: Total typed characters.
  • c: Characters Per Second.
  • T: Corrected typos.
  • C: All typos.
  • a: Accuracy with corrected typos.
  • A: Accuracy with all typos.
• -s: Auto-save your stats at the end. _{Default: false;}
• -a: Words sorted in alphabetical order. _{Default: false;}
• -m: Monochrome mode. _{Default: false;}
• -f: Free typing mode. The timer will not start. _{Default: false;}

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Keybindigs:

• Welcome Screen:

  • Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, and Esc: Now closing the typos.
  • Any other key will start the typos.

• While typing:

  • ←: Moves to the previously typed character.
  • →: Moves to the next character. Works only for already typed characters.
  • Backspace: Removing current character.
  • Ctrl+Backspace: Removing current word, or goes to start of the previous.
  • Tab: Fully resetting current typing test(Already typed stats, words, and even timer will be reset). And you will start the test from the beginning.
  • Ctrl+R: Reset everything just like Tab do, but also re-roll words.
  • Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, and Esc: Now closing the typos.
  • Only printable characters will be prompt to the test (see man 3 isprint).
  • Any other input will be ignored.

• Stats Screen:

  • Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, and Esc: Now closing the typos.
  • Ctrl+S: Saves your typing test result to ./typos.log file. By appending new test data to the end of the file and with the current local date at the top of each result.
  • Tab: Restart the test.
  • Ctrl+R: Restart the test and re-roll the words.

!! IMPORTANT !!; My advice is to use Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+D keybindings instead of Esc whatever it's possible. Because of reasons of handling the "Escape Sequences" the Esc-key by itself has a delay in 1 sec.

The Esc is not removed because for some peoples the Esc-key may be a more comfortable way to close the program.

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Debug mode

Will show you some additional information about current input with some stats if you need it.

To active this you must rebuild typos with:

make debug_all

Installation the deps.:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev clang

Most of the other tools is already pre-installed in most of Linux distros. but if u still have troubles when building the app:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Building:

Just make it working:

make

More options for Makefile are described here.

Using the typos:

After successful installation you can run it like this:

./typos

To see the help info about some options:

./typos -h

If you wanted globally access to the typos:

mkdir -p ~/.bin;
git clone https://github.com/Iipal/typos/ ~/.bin/typos;
cd ~/.bin/typos && make re;
sudo ln -P ~/.bin/typos/typos /usr/bin/typos;

Be careful with saving stat log, it always will be stored in the directory where you call the typos.