typespeed - Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS

typespeed [options]

Typespeed gives your fingers' cps (total and correct), typoratio and some points to compare with your friends.

Typespeed's idea is ripped from ztspeed (a dos game made by Zorlim). Idea of the game should be clear to anyone, just type and type it fast, or be a lewser.

Notice: the speed of words going across the screen has been changed in version 0.4.0. Scores are not comparable with older versions now. See the README file for more detailed information.

--nocolors

Turns off the ncurses colors, it can be a more clear way to play the game in some situations.

--cheat

This will enable the cheat, which wraps words instantly when they are written correctly. You don't need to press space/enter. It is another question if this "cheat" actually helps..

--training[=nm]

Training mode (where nm is speed number). It slows the game down. Speed number tells how often words are moved, normally always. So that with number "2", words move every second time in the loop and with "4" they move only every fourth time. You can't obviously get your name in the high score list by using this option.

--server

Start typespeed in server mode. Typespeed will wait for other player to connect.

--client=addr

Start typespeed in client mode (where addr is network address of server) Typespeed will try to connect to the given address and start network play.

--port[=port]

Tells what tcp/ip port will typespeed be using in the network play. The default port is 6025.

--makescores

Reset/Make scorefiles for the wordfiles found in the dir defined in the configs or if no config files exist, then in the current dir. Doesn't start typespeed.

--help

Little explaining of the parameters

/etc/typespeedrc Config file

$HOME/.typespeed.rc Personal config file. Overrides the system config file

The config file consists of only one line, which defines the directory of typespeed's data files. It is usually /usr/local/lib/typespeed/.

Network game.

Jani Ollikainen <bestis@iki.fi>

Jaakko Manelius <jman@iki.fi>

Bugs/Ideas/Comments to <bestis@iki.fi>