Keyboard Racer

A Terminal-based typing game inspired by Type Racer, developed in a two-week pair-project phase.

Main menu

Bot selection

• Allows playing against 0 to 4 bots
• Bot difficulty ranges from 0 to 9

Text selecion

• Random text
• Text closest to specified relative difficulty in the range of 0(easiest) to 100(hardest)
• Content of file at specifed path

Ingame view

• Highlighting of
  • untyped characters(dark gray)
  • typed correctly typed characters(light gray)
  • incorrectly typed characters(red)
• Display of statistics
  • Number of total errors made so far
  • Number of errors in the current state of the text
  • Current typing speed measured in Words per minute(WPM)
• Visualization of the participants progress through a car race

Post game view

Participants ranking with typing speed and total number of errors made

Acknowledgement

Text database taken from http://typeracerdata.com/texts.

UI built with Gui.cs https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs.

ASCII banners built with https://patorjk.com/software/taag.

Networking based on https://github.com/AbleOpus/NetworkingSamples.