terminal-wpm

I got a new keyboard, my first ergonomic keyboard, so to practice typing, i used monkeytype. That site is very nice, with beautiful statistics, a lot of customization options, leaderboard, Personal Bests and a lot more.

But I am a programmer. So I want to create my own version. That version should be on the terminal because I work on the terminal the most.

This is how this project was born.

Try it out

if you use nix, you can simply run this to try it out:

nix run git+https://git.nkoll.de/nk/terminal-wpm

if you don't use nix, you have to clone this repository, have Zig 0.15 installed and run this:

zig build run

Roadmap

• Add command line options
  • Wordcount
  • Language/Wordlist
• Handle multibyte input correctly
• Accuracy checks
  • Accuracy per Character
  • Accuracy per Word
• Add more languages/wordlists
  • english
  • german
  • english 1k
  • english 5k
  • english 10k
  • english 25k
• Statistics example and explanation in README
• qoutes
  • english
  • german
• Improve rendering speed
  • Use terminal feature synchronized output
  • split read and write into multiple threads, dont spin on read loop
• Input validation (Unwanted Control Characters etc.)
• Auto Scroll on long text
• TUI
  • Startup Screen
  • Stats Screen with restart button
  • Scoreboard
  • Settings

Credits/Contributions

Language Files are sourced from monkeytype and reformatted into simple text files (see here).

Thanks to Neurocyte for providing this beautiful Screenshot.

Notes and Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code