[HN Gopher] Typr - TUI typing test with a word selection algorit...
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Typr - TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by
keybr
Author : Sakura-sx
Score : 29 points
Date : 2025-06-23 08:27 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| Sakura-sx wrote:
| I have been a user of keybr.com for a long time, and I didn't
| really like things like for example only practicing one word at a
| time or the algorithm trying to force you to type each character
| at the same speed, that's why I made my own. It has an algorithm
| that selects words randomly with weights based on how long you
| take to type each letter, you accuracy with each letter and how
| common the letter is in English (you should type more-common
| letters faster!).
| vanous wrote:
| Nice effort!
|
| All these tools teach typing and looking at the typed text. Only
| few programs make physical separation between the source and the
| typed text or do hide the text currently typed. Try it... yet
| another level... :)
| Sakura-sx wrote:
| Thank you!
| procaryote wrote:
| One issue with tools like these is that it's pretty artificial.
| You rarely need to type nonsense series of lowercase only words
| without punctuation at a consistent character speed.
|
| I did a similar little tool at some point where I just used some
| books from the gutenberg project and normalised it a bit so there
| were no weird typographic quotes etc.
|
| It both forces me to become good at the punctuation, and it's
| more interesting as I will accidentally start reading that book.
| Rygian wrote:
| I self taught touch typing by copying chapters of It. Eyes
| focused on the book, keyboard hidden under the desk, and only
| looking at the screen at each paragraph end. Worked great.
| Sakura-sx wrote:
| More characters soon, thanks for the suggestion!
| ubercow13 wrote:
| I like this one https://typeonline.uk/speed-test/word
| Velorivox wrote:
| Shouldn't this be a "Show HN"?
| Sakura-sx wrote:
| You are right, I didn't know what it was when posting.
| Sakura-sx wrote:
| Thank you for the stars, just went from 1 to 27 stars! :3
| seblon wrote:
| Several years ago (around 2015), I also developed a typing
| learning web application. It was inspired by another application
| that had originally been developed for Windows 95 - with that
| app, I learned how to type. So in 2015, I decided to implement a
| web-based version of it.
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| http://touchtyper.net/en
|
| However, I just checked out keybr.com and have to say - it's a
| much better system for learning to type! As of today, I now
| realize I have a _huge_ problem with the letter "q" - I had
| never noticed that before! ^^
| Sakura-sx wrote:
| keybr's algorithm is flawed, getting 1 extra WPM on "q" does
| way less progress than getting 1 extra WPM on "e", it's better
| than most of the things but also I wouldn't have made typr if
| it was perfect.
| seblon wrote:
| Btw, I also checked out your app, my feedback after 5
| minutes: there was at least one case, where a word was
| splitted instead of clean word wrapping for line break, when
| the terminal is small.
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| And one idea: do a audio bell on error, even for tui, this
| should just be the special "bell control char" written to
| stdout.
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