Typing Speed Test in your Terminal
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
The source code is hosted on GitHub at: mithil467/mitype
pip install mitype
That's all if you are on linux and mac OS. If you are on windows, you also need windows-curses, which can be installed from pypi:
pip install windows-curses
Once installed, you can run it by
python -m mitype
You can choose difficulty in between 1 and 5.
python -m mitype -d <value>
Example:
python -m mitype -d 2
You can use text from your own file by
python -m mitype -f SampleTextFile
You can quit the app anytime by pressing the ESC key.
To directly run from clone:
python local_host.py
You can also directly in your browser.
For windows only - windows-curses.
To install mitype from source -
In the mitype directory (same one where you found this file after cloning the git repo), execute:
python setup.py install
Test text is taken from data.db database which is a collection of 6000 strings taken from typeracerdata.com (not given under my license).