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OctoType – TUI typing trainer

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

OctoType is a TUI typing trainer made with Ratatui, and powered by Gladius – Heavily inspired by Monkeytype, with a focus on customizability.

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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Typing Tutors

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Office, Productivity, Roundup

Typing tutor software teaches fast and accurate typing through a system of informative lessons and progress tracking.

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Open-Typer is a typing tutor application

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Open-Typer is an open source typing tutor application which aims to make learning to touch type easier.

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Typeracer – typing testing

September 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Education

Typeracer is a terminal typing game. Race to see the fastest time you can get.

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typioca – minimal terminal based typing speed tester

September 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Education

typioca is a minimal, terminal based typing speed tester.

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Smassh – TUI based typing test software

September 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Education

Smassh is a TUI based typing test application inspired by MonkeyType, a popular online web-based typing application.

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olagem – terminal based typing speed test

September 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Education

olagem is billed as a simple and beautiful terminal based typing speed test.

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Keypunch – practice your typing skills

September 13, 2024 Steve Emms Education

Keypunch lets you practice typing and have a bit of fun into the bargain.

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TIPP10 – touch typing tutor

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Education

TIPP10 is a free and open source 10-finger touch typing tutor. Available both as a Linux program or web-based.

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Klavaro – Touch Typing Tutor Software

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Klavaro is a flexible, simple, open source tutor to teach correct typing, almost independently of language.

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KTouch – Touch Typing Tutor Software

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Education

KTouch is an open source touch typing tutor for KDE. KTouch is an aid for learning how to type with speed and accuracy.

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GNU Typist – universal typing tutor

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

GNU Typist (gtypist) is a simple, free and open source, interactive, ncurses based universal touch typing tutor.

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Tux Typing – typing tutor designed for children

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Education, Games

Tux Typing is a free and open source educational typing tutorial game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Have fun!

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ttyper – terminal-based typing test

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.

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toipe – trusty terminal typing tester

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.

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thokr – sleek typing TUI

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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amphetype – advanced typing practice software

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms Education

amphetype is a layout-agnostic typing program. It’s aimed at individuals who don’t need an on-screen keyboard.

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tt – terminal based typing test

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

tt is a terminal based typing test. By default tt creates a test consisting of 50 randomly generated words from the top 1000 English words.

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