typa is a lightweight terminal user interface (TUI) application for testing and improving typing speed. It offers a keyboard-centric alternative to browser-based typing tests and supports several testing modes covering ordinary words, quotations, and source code.
The program reports typing speed and accuracy in detail after each run. It also maintains typing history and supports multiple languages, configurable themes, and command-line options for quickly constructing a test without navigating menus.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Minimal terminal interface designed around keyboard operation.
- Time mode tests typing against a countdown timer.
- Word mode generates a specified number of words to type.
- Quote mode draws passages from a curated quote database.
- Code mode provides source-code typing exercises while preserving line breaks and indentation.
- Code typing supports automatic indentation, line handling, and tab behaviour designed to resemble Monkeytype.
- Reports words per minute, raw words per minute, and typing accuracy.
- Provides a character breakdown covering correct, incorrect, extra, and missed characters.
- Stores typing history which can be viewed through an interactive statistics interface.
- Saved history can be cleared from the command line.
- Optionally adds punctuation and numbers to generated typing exercises.
- Supports English, Indonesian, Dutch, Malay, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish word lists.
- Provides separate word lists and quote collections, allowing each test mode to use appropriate source material.
- Includes built-in colour themes.
- Supports completely custom colour schemes through a TOML configuration file.
- Responsive text wrapping adjusts the typing area to the available terminal width.
- Keyboard shortcuts allow tests to be restarted or exited without navigating menus.
- Supports Discord Rich Presence.
- Can be installed using Cargo or compiled directly from source.
- Pre-built Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries are available from project releases.
- Uses Ratatui and Crossterm for its terminal user interface.
Website: github.com/uint82/typa
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Developer: Hilmi Abroor
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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