tt - typing timer/tutor/test

tt is an extremely basic tool for practicing touch typing, and monitoring your typing speed using ASCII documents provided by the user.

Requirements

In order to build tt you need ncurses.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (tt is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install tt (if necessary as root):

make install

Running tt

Running tt requires a formatted text document to work correctly. The document must be encoded with ASCII and have lines of 80 or fewer characters in length with no blank lines.

here is the one-liner that I use:

iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit foo.txt | sed 's/--/-/g' \
        | sed '/^$/d' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/\(^.\{1,80\}\).*/\1/' \
        > bar.txt

Usage

tt /path/to/ascii/file.txt