tycon

Typing Test + Console

Node.js console typing test. Easy, Med, & Hard Difficulties, Speed graph, Shortcuts
npmjs.com/package/tycon

Run From NPM

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• Install Tycon

$ sudo npm i tycon -g

• Run

$ tycon

Menu Options

• Test Mode: basic, sentence
• Test Length (seconds): 10, 30, 60, 120, 180

Additional Test Settings.. y/N

• Difficulty (basic mode only): easy, med, hard
• Require Correct Word (don't skip on incorrect): y/N
• Colourblind Mode (blue/green): y/N
• Randomly Capitalize First Letter (scales with difficulty): y/N

Features

• Basic Mode: Randomly selected words from 3 difficulties.
• Sentence Mode: Paragraphs from popular books, including capitalization and punctuation.
• Restarting Test: ^R Is used to start/re-start a test. Can be used while test is running (will re-random sentence selection)
• Word Deletion: Ctrl + Backspace is used to delete a typed word. Shift + Home is not supported, nor is Ctrl + W (for Unixers), though I'm considering it.
• Speed Graph: Every 2 seconds, your average WPM (up to that point) is calculated
• Custom Text: tycon -f </path/file.txt>

To-Do

• Support custom word lists from file (validate format, and navigate directories to locate. launch flag -f and file path)
• Support numbers (keypress just gives undefined for data)
• % incorrect by each character, not just incorrect words, and backspaces
• Display random typing tips
• Add random punctuation mode (insert punctuation, and reformat text, like hyphens w/o space, caps after period, etc.)
• Re-do intervaled avg to average in segments, instead of over progress of the test (so chart is more relevant)
• Record local lifetime stats
• Launch parameters to define settings
• User config (settings) file support
• Record time between all keypresses for consistency data, & display in graph

Text Excerpts

• The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R Tolkein
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
• Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
• Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Bugs

• No option to retain "file" mode, from launch, after entering sub-settings menu

Issues?

• Tycon not recognized command (Windows), when trying to launch
  Probably a path var issue with node. Add npm path to your environment variables & restart terminal. Link

More

website: nicfontaine.com
twitter: @ngpfontaine

License

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it. ;v