Speedpad: test, train, and increase typing speed

Welcome! This is the documentation for Speedpad version 1.0, last updated Oct 25, 2011.

What is Speedpad?

Speedpad is a small and portable, ncurses powered tool to test, train, and increase typing speed on arbitrary text input:

• designed for intermediate to advanced level typists
• assumes that you have already learned how to touch type
• no lessons, no single words, no synthetic stuff
• tab expansion, auto indentation and syntax support to train on code
• reference speed robot (defaults to 100 WPM)
• supports CPS, CPM, WPM, PPM, and CPH/KPH metrics
• shows detailed statistics about speed and typos
• helps to find and eliminate frequent typos

Speedpad requires Python 2.7 or later.
We also recommend to install fortune. (not required)

Download Speedpad v1.0 [speedpad-1.0.tar.gz]

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Documentation:

What's new in Speedpad v1.0? or see the complete changelog Complete Table of Contents lists all sections and subsections

Screenshots some screenshots Keybinds keybind quickref

Meta information:

License and Copyright how you may use the code

Reporting bugs please inform us of any problems

Examples

Here are some command line examples and ideas how to use speedpad:

speedpad file1 file2 file3                        read files
grep ^foo words | speedpad                        read stdin
speedpad -c -- fortune -s -n 500                  (default)
speedpad -c -- fortune 40% startrek 60% linux
speedpad /usr/src/linux/README
speedpad --code /usr/src/linux/mm/pagewalk.c

Development

Getting the Speedpad source code using Git:

$ git clone git://labs.feurix.org/feurix/misc/speedpad.git

See also: Git Webinterface, Source Browser