Simple cli typing game written in Python.
wpm.webm
wpm.py is minimalistic typing test based on user provided exercising text. It is written in Python and uses the curses library for the UI.
wpm.py can be downloaded from the Github Repo:
git clone [email protected]:ShlokBharadwaj/wpm.py.git
wpm.py uses curses module which is a part of the standard library. However, it is not available on Windows. If you are on Windows, you can install it using pip:
pip install windows-curses
wpm.py can be run by executing the following command:
python3 wpm.py
I personally use alias:
alias wpm='python3 ~/path/to/wpm.py'
because I am too lazy to type python3 everytime.
Every terminal emulator is different and some of them have weird backspace behaviour( They send different values for key presses of backspace, ctrl+backspace and alt+backspace ). If you are using a terminal emulator that has this problem, you can try to fix it by changing the BACKSPACE variable in the wpm.py file. The default value is 127 which is the value for backspace in most terminal emulators. You can find the value for your terminal emulator by running the following command:
python3 -c "import curses; print(curses.KEY_BACKSPACE)"
If pressing backspace throws error, then try ctrl+backspace and alt+backspace and use the value that works.