A simple touch-typing tutor that follows Steve Yegge's methodology of going in fast, slow, and medium cycles.
The TL;DR of this methodology is that you make three passes for each phrase.
- Fast - type as fast as you can without any attention to proper technique or correctness
- Slow - use proper technique at all costs, go as slow as needed to achieve that
- Normal - type at target speed, try to make no mistakes
Gotypist will score each pass accordingly: errors do not matter in the first pass, speed does not matter in the second pass, and both matter in the final pass. Check out score.go for details (which are subject to change).
This project was mainly motivated by trying out termbox-go, but it is definitely ready for productive learning.
go get github.com/pb-/gotypist
gotypist [-w FILE] [-s] [WORD]...
-n PROB Sprinkle in random numbers with probability 0 <= PROB <= 1
-s Run in demo mode to take a screenshot
-w FILE Use this file as word list instead of /usr/share/dict/words
WORD... Explicitly specify a phrase
ESC quit
C-F skip forward to the next phrase
C-R toggle repeat phrase mode
C-I toggle finger usage hints