test your typing speed

analyse your results

You can find the rest of the charts at the bottom of this file.

inception of the idea

This repository is home to a self-contained file typetest. As is it is a near clone of 10fastfingers with an added bonus of being able to see typing speed as you're typing.

Differences in the way typing speed is calculated and feedback across platforms got me interested in writing my own program for testing typing speed. I've come to love how simple and unrestrictive 10fastfingers and keybr feel compared to typingclub and typeracer. They all have great advantages for varying purposes but when it comes to warming up or just waiting for some program to compile (have you tried compiling chromium?) I am yet to find a rival to 10fastfingers. That is why I decided to clone its functionality and add some features I love from other sites.

typetest

typetest is a self-contained minimal typing test program written with blessed. It calculates typing speed as sum of spaces and characters from correctly written words divided by test duration. Adjustable settings are duration, input, output, rows and shuffle, which can be set using the command arguments. The results of typetest by default go into a file aptly named results positioned in the same directory as typetest.

ideas for tests

Along with typetest this repository features sample tests. Try them like so: typetest -s -d 60 -i common_200 or scrape something of the internet, like a featured article on wikipedia.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import re
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

word_pattern = re.compile(r"['A-Za-z\d\-]+[,\.\?\!]?")  # symbols to keep
url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featured_articles'

r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
for sup in soup.select('sup'):
    sup.extract()  # remove citations

text = ' '.join(p.text for p in soup.select('p'))
text = re.sub(r'\[.*?\]|\(.*?\)', '', text)  # remove parenthesis
print(' '.join(re.findall(word_pattern, text)))

If you create a file called wiki_random you can start the test with wiki_random | typetest. Write your own scraper, you may find some suggestions here.

usage

usage: typetest [-h] [-d DURATION] [-i INPUT] [-o OUTPUT] [-s] [-r ROWS]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DURATION, --duration DURATION
                        duration in seconds (default: inf)
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        file to read words from (default: sys.stdin)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        file to store results in
                        (default: /home/medo/repos/typetest/results)
  -s, --shuffle         shuffle words (default: False)
  -r ROWS, --rows ROWS  number of test rows to show (default: 2)

example:
  typetest -i test.txt -s -d 60
  echo 'The typing seems really strong today.' | typetest -d 3.5
  typetest < test.txt

shortcuts:
  ^c / ctrl+c           end the test and get results now
  ^h / ctrl+h           backspace
  ^r / ctrl+r           restart the same test
  ^w / ctrl+w           delete a word
  ^u / ctrl+u           delete a word

installation

*nix

1. install python 3
2. install blessed
3. clone this repository
4. run python typetest -s -d 60 < common_300
5. (optional) add typetest to path or make an alias like tt
6. (optional) store your results in some file and analyse

windows

caveats:

1. Redirecting or piping test words into the program isn't tested yet (typetest -i input.txt should work as intended).

A way to completely avoid the aforementioned caveats is to use a linux subsystem (WSL), installation details can be found here. The rest of the installation steps are the same as for *nix.

notes

• A Note on Calculating Text Entry Speed

charts

todo

• adjust wpm diagram to show linear timeline