What

A terminal based typing test.

Installation

git clone github.com/lemnos/tt
make && sudo make install

or

go get github.com/lemnos/tt if you have $GOPATH/bin in your $PATH

Binaries are also available:

OSX

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemnos/tt/master/binaries/tt-osx_amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/tt && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tt

Linux

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemnos/tt/master/binaries/tt-linux_amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/tt && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tt

Best served on a terminal with truecolor and cursor shape support (e.g kitty, iterm)

Usage

Options

• tt -n <num> produces a test consisting of num randomly drawn english words
• tt -csv outputs the csv formatted results to STDOUT

The default behaviour is equivalent to 'tt -n 50'

Keys

• Pressing escape at any point restarts the test.
• C-c exits the test.

Custom text can be supplied by piping aribirary text to the program. Each paragraph in the input is shown as a separate segment of the text.

See -help for additional options.

E.G

• shuf -n 40 /etc/dictionaries-common/words|tt produces a test consisting of 40 random words drawn from /etc/dictionaries-common/words.

Note that line breaks are determined by the input if -raw is specified.

Configuration

The theme can be configured by setting the following options in ~/.ttrc:

• bgcol: The default background colour.
• fgcol: The default text colour.
• hicol: The colour used to highlight typed text.
• hicol2 The colour used to highlight the current word.
• hicol3: The colour used to highlight the next word.
• errcol: The colour used to highlight errors.