linzcrowe / cli-typer

Practice touch typing in the commandline and measure your skills.

Practice touch typing in the commandline and measure your skills. Coauthored by qwhex.

Install

with npm

npm install -g balzss/cli-typer

manually

git clone https://github.com/balzss/cli-typer.git
cd cli-typer
npm install -g .  # optional
node app.js

Dependecies

• node.js >= 6.4.0
• ... That's it!

Usage

cli-typer [options]

Options:

• -h, --help Show help
• -t, --time Given time in seconds to complete the test
• -w, --words Number of words to display per line
• -i, --input Path to a wordlist file with new line separated words
• -V, --verbose Show settings on start
• -s, --save Path to file for saving results

Saving results

When called with the -s, --save option, results will be written to a file at the given path. Results are appended to the end of a tab-separated file so you can track your progress over time.

Wordlists

Linux

You can find additional wordlists in the /usr/share/dict directory and use them like so:

cli-typer -i /usr/share/dict/words

Install dictionaries on debian-based distributions with the sudo apt install w[lang] command, e.g. sudo apt install wfrench to install the French wordlist. Check out available packages here.