typiskt - terminal touch typing training

After seeing rr-'s 10ff program. I thought it would be fun to try to clone the same thing in bash. I also had some ideas for features i would like to have in a touchtyping tutor, the thing snowballed into what is now typiskt.

I put a video demonstration of typiskt on youtube

installation

If you use Arch Linux you can get typiskt from AUR.

typiskt is a bash script and the only external commands used are:

bc - to calculate WPM and accuracy
gawk - to create wordlists in --book and --source mode
paste - for vertical concatenation of results/highscore
wc - get size of text blocks before centering them
tput (ncurses) - get escape codes
getopt - long-option support
curl - only used in add-gtypist-exercises.sh
md5sum - used for various caching functions.
date - to display highscore table

If these commands are not installed they should be available in most distributions official package repositories, but you probably already have them.

Use the Makefile to do a systemwide installation of both the script and the manpage.

Build dependencies are*: gawk, GNU make, and bash

(configure the installation destination in the Makefile, if needed)
* to re-build the manpage go-md2man is needed

$ git clone https://github.com/budlabs/typiskt.git
$ cd typiskt
$ make
# make install
$ typiskt -v
typiskt - version: 2020.06.22.1
updated: 2020-06-22 by budRich

usage

typiskt [OPTIONS]
-b, --book       TEXTFILE | book mode, TEXTFILE used for wordlist
-c, --corpus     WORDLIST | changes WORDLIST to use in the default (words) mode
--details                 | write details to TYPISKT_CACHE/details/EPOCHSECONDS
-d, --difficulty INT      | INT == a number 0-10. only avialble in words|book-modes
-e, --exercise   EXERCISE | exercise from: TYPISKT_CONFIG_DIR/exercises/EXERCISE
-h, --help                | print help and exit  
--lines          LINES    | display max LINES  
-l, --list                | list available wordlists
-s, --seed       INT      | use INT as seed for RANDOM
-u, --source     TEXTFILE | source mode, use TEXTFILE as wordlist
-t, --time       SECONDS  | set time limit in seconds for the tests
-v, --version             | print version info and exit  
-w, --width      WIDTH    | maximum number of characters per line

You get a different type of test depending on which mode, you start typiskt in. No matter which mode you can press:
Escape to restart the test, and
Ctrl+c to quit.

mode	words	`--book`	`--source`	`--exercise`
Random	x
Difficulty	x	x
Timed	x	x
Bookmark		x
Line-break			x
Series				x
Highscore	x	x

words

This is the default mode and it will use words taken from a corpus and show them in a random order, the test will stop when the time is up. If time was more than 60 seconds, the "score" will get recorded. The default corpus is english, but it can be changed to any corpus listed with --list, using the --corpus options. If --difficulty is set, some words will have a random wordmask applied to them making the test more difficult, difficulty will also add some bonus point to the high score.

book

This is very similar to the words mode, except the words are taken from a specific textfile (the argument to --book) and will be displayed in chronological order. It will also record the word the test ended on, so if a new test is started with the same text, it will resume on that word (bookmark).

source

Will also print words in chronological order from a specific file (the argument to --source) but unlike book mode it will respect Line-breaks. time limit, bookmark and difficulty is disabled for this mode. It is intended for(short) snippets of source code. The highest WPM for the file will be stored and displayed when the test is completed.

exercise

The argument to --exercise must be the name of a subdirectory in TYPISKT_CONFIG_DIR/exercises. That subdirectory in turn is expected to contain one or more wordlists (files with one word/line). The content of these wordlists will be displayed in chronological order. And to proceed to the next exercise/wordlist (sorted in numerical order with sort -n) a certain WPM and accuracy must be reached (the values can be changed in TYPISKT_CONFIG_DIR/config). You can navigate between completed exercises with the Arrow keys in this mode. No exercises is included with the installation, but the script: TYPISKT_CONFIG_DIR/exercises/add-gtypist-exercises.sh will download, convert and install the default English exercises from [gtypist].

license

typiskt is licensed under BSD-2-Clause

budlabs / typiskt

readme