A simple terminal keyboard trainer.

Features:

• UTF8 english and russian support
• Restore screen contents after quitting
• Configuration directory with train samples
• Full UTF8 support
• Adopt to changing window size
• Calculate typing speed (WPM, CPM, etc)
• Specify time of testing or number of words/character
• Custom encoding support
• Let user choose which characters will and which will not occur
• ...

Installation

Manual

To install ktrain, cd to project diretory and run make install to install to /usr/bin or make local_install to install to /usr/local/bin.

AUR

ktrain is available on Arch User Repository.

Usage

ktrain looks for first 256 files with 'txt' extension in /usr/share/ktrain directory. By default, it chooses a random file. You can pass the basename of a file as an argument to choose one specific file.

TODO:

• Wrap words to next screen
• Process deletions
• Fix punctuation
• Read by optimal blocks
• Refactor
• Remove messy file handling