This is the Python CLI application for calculating the typing distance of the input string. The keyboard is presented as a two-dimensional array where every key is assigned its coordinates.
Here, the distance is calculated as following:
where n is the length of input string.
You can also get an averaged distance, which represents the average typing distance between keys in the input string:
where n is the length of input string.
The idea is to give a perception of string complexity: for example, qwerty is easier to type rather than string.
For qwerty this distance is 5 (averaged is 1.0), while for string it is 12 (averaged is 2.4).
After cloning this repo just run python setup.py install
Help:
foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance --help
Usage: __main__.py [OPTIONS]
Calculate and return typing distance for a given string
Options:
-s, --string TEXT Input string
-kb, --keyboard [MAC] What keyboard to use
-avg, --averaged BOOLEAN Return average value
--help Show this message and exit.Get absolute distance:
foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance -s <your_string>Get averaged distance:
foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance -avg True -s <your_string>Unknown char:
As for now, typing_distance can handle only chars presented in English MAC keyboard, so if you'll try to type other characters, you will get the error:
foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance -avg True -s строка
Your line contains chars which are not presented in chosen keyboard: MACAbsolute distance
foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance -s qwerty
Typing distance is 5foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance
string: some_distance
Typing distance is 59Averaged distance
foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance -avg True -s qwerty
Averaged typing distance is 1.0foo@bar:~$ python3 -m typing_distance -avg True
string: some_distance
Averaged typing distance is 4.9