A terminal based typing test.

sudo curl -L https://github.com/lemnos/tt/releases/download/v0.4.2/tt-linux -o /usr/local/bin/monkeysh && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/monkeysh
sudo curl -o /usr/share/man/man1/monkeysh.1.gz -L https://github.com/lemnos/tt/releases/download/v0.4.2/tt.1.gz

mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/local/share/man/man1 # Usually created by brew

sudo curl -L https://github.com/lemnos/tt/releases/download/v0.4.2/tt-osx -o /usr/local/bin/monkeysh && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/monkeysh
sudo curl -o /usr/local/share/man/man1/monkeysh.1.gz -L https://github.com/lemnos/tt/releases/download/v0.4.2/monkeysh.1.gz

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/monkeysh /usr/share/man/man1/monkeysh.1.gz

# Requires golang
git clone [email protected]:JoaquinBadillo/monkeysh
cd monkeysh
make && sudo make install && make clean

Best served on a terminal with truecolor and cursor shape support (e.g kimonkeyshy, iterm, ghostty)

By default 50 words from the top 1000 words in the English language are used to constitute the test. Custom text can be supplied by piping arbitrary text to the program. Each paragraph in the input is shown as a separate segment of the text. See man monkeysh or man.md for a complete description and a comprehensive set of options.

• Pressing escape at any point restarts the test.
• C-c exits the test.
• right moves to the next test.
• left moves to the previous test.
• Pressing tab will end the test.
• Pressing esc will restart the test.

• monkeysh -quotes en Starts quote mode with the builtin quote list 'en'.
• monkeysh -n 10 -g 5 produces a test consisting of 50 randomly drawn words in 5 groups of 10 words each.
• monkeysh -t 10 starts a timed test lasting 10 seconds.
• monkeysh -theme gruvbox Starts monkeysh with the gruvbox theme.

monkeysh is designed to be easily scriptable and integrate nicely with other *nix tools. With a limonkeyshle shell scripting most features the user can conceive of should be possible to implement. Below are some simple examples of what can be achieved.

• shuf -n 40 /usr/share/dict/words|monkeysh Produces a test consisting of 40 random words drawn from your system's dictionary.
• curl https://api.quotable.io/random|jq '[.text=.content|.attribution=.author]'|monkeysh -quotes - Produces a test consisting of a random quote.
• alias monkeytype='monkeysh -t 30 -bold -showwpm' Creates an alias called monkeytype that has a 30 second timer and shows the live words per minute.

The default behaviour is equivalent to monkeysh -n 50.

See -help for an exhaustive list of options.

Custom themes and word lists can be defined in ~/.monkeysh/themes and ~/.tt/words and used in conjunction with the -theme and -words flags. A list of preloaded themes and word lists can be found in words/ and themes/ and are accessible by default using the respective flags.