| SPEEDPAD(1) | General Commands Manual | SPEEDPAD(1) |
NAME¶
speedpad - ncurses tool to test, train, and increase typing speed
SYNOPSIS¶
speedpad [OPTIONS] [--] [FILE [FILE
...]]
speedpad [...] -c [--] [CMD [ARG ...]]
DESCRIPTION¶
speedpad is an interactive ncurses tool to test, train, and increase typing speed on arbitrary text input:
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- designed for intermediate to advanced level typists
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- assumes that you have already learned how to touch type
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- no lessons, no single words, no synthetic stuff
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- tab expansion, auto indentation and syntax support to train on code
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- reference speed robot (defaults to 100 WPM)
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- supports CPS, CPM, WPM, PPM, and CPH/KPH metrics
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- shows detailed statistics about speed and typos
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- helps to find and eliminate frequent typos
OPTIONS¶
- --version
- show version number and exit
- -h, --help
- show help message and exit
- -c
- use positional arguments as command line (default: False)
- -o FILE
- write stats dump to file (default: <stdout>)
- --wpm
- speed in words per minute (default: True)
- --cpm
- speed in chars per minute (default: False)
- --cps
- speed in chars per second (default: False)
- --speed SPEED
- reference speed in matching unit (default: 100.0)
- --wrap WIDTH
- wrap text at specified width (default: 0)
[<0 = disable, 0 = auto, >0 = fixed] - --user NAME
- set custom user name (default: <login name>)
- --tabsize N
- set custom tabsize (default: 8)
- --strict
- require manual line breaks (default: False)
- --indent
- enable auto indentation (default: False)
- --syntax
- enable syntax support (default: False)
- --no-strip
- keep excessive whitespace in text (default: False)
- --no-robot
- disable the reference speed robot (default: False)
- --no-color
- disable colors (default: False)
- --no-stats
- disable stats dump on stdout (default: False)
- --code
- equals --no-strip --indent --syntax
The following options should be used carefully:
For a full list of supported encodings, see:
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings
KEYBINDS¶
- ENTER
- load next quote (if not started)
- CTRL-X
- reset counters and position, restart quote (if started)
- CTRL-D
- stop current round and show statistics (if started)
- CTRL-Q
- quit gracefully and dump stats
- CTRL-C
- quit forcefully and do not dump stats
UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT
PGUP/PGDOWN/HOME/END
Press space, tab, or any alphanumeric key to start typing.
EXAMPLES¶
speedpad file1 file2 file3
grep ^foo words | speedpad
speedpad -c -- fortune -s -n 500
speedpad -c -- fortune 40% startrek 60% linux
speedpad /usr/src/linux/README
speedpad --code /usr/src/linux/mm/pagewalk.c
- write stats to file:
- speedpad > stats
speedpad >> stats (append)
speedpad -o stats (append) - show speed for all records:
- gnuplot -p -e "plot 'stats' using 15
smooth sbezier title 'wpm'" - show speed development over time:
- gnuplot -p -e "set xdata time; set timefmt '%s';
plot 'stats' using 1:15
smooth sbezier title 'wpm'" - show speed in relation to elapsed typing time:
- gnuplot -p -e "plot 'stats' using 3:15
smooth sbezier title 'wpm'" - show typos in relation to speed:
- gnuplot -p -e "plot 'stats' using 15:11
smooth sbezier title 'typos'"
SEE ALSO¶
fortune(6) gnuplot(1) gtypist(1) typespeed(1)
AUTHOR¶
speedpad and this man page was written by John Feuerstein.
| 20 Oct 2011 |