clavirio is a terminal-based touch typing tutor designed to help users improve their typing speed and accuracy through structured lessons and practice exercises.
The application follows a progressive learning approach, introducing keyboard rows and finger movements in stages. Lessons begin with individual finger pairs before moving to complete keyboard rows, capital letters, numbers and symbols.
Users can practise using different keyboard layouts or choose exercises based on ordinary words, programming terminology and their own text files. The interface provides immediate performance feedback and retains statistics between sessions, making it possible to monitor progress and concentrate on troublesome keys.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 27 structured typing lessons covering keyboard rows, capital letters, numbers and symbols.
- Support for QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts.
- Progressive exercises introducing finger pairs and keyboard movements.
- Virtual keyboard displaying highlighted keys and suggested finger positions.
- Random word practice using selectable English vocabulary lists.
- Programming terminology exercises covering Rust, Python, JavaScript, Go, C/C++, Java and HTML/CSS.
- Timed typing sessions and exercises using a specified number of words.
- Real-time words-per-minute, accuracy, error and progress statistics.
- Performance graphs showing typing speed during a session.
- Weak-key exercises generated from recorded typing errors.
- Practice with common letter pairs and quotations.
- Zen mode for unrestricted typing practice.
- Load custom text files for additional typing exercises.
- Optional punctuation and number inclusion in practice exercises.
- Configurable error handling, including requiring corrections before continuing.
- Session history with per-lesson tracking and performance averages.
- Dark and light interface themes.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/alexylon/clavirio
Support:
Developer: Alexander Alexandrov
License: Apache License 2.0
clavirio is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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