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Typespeed - Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
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Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Jani Ollikainen <bestis@iki.fi>
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& Jaakko Manelius <jman@iki.fi>
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Typespeed gives your fingers' cps (total and correct), typoratio and some
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points to compare with your friends.
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Typespeed's idea is ripped from ztspeed (a dos game made by Zorlim). Idea
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of the game should be clear to anyone, just type and type it fast, or be a
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About the new way to calculate speed:
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In versions before 0.4.0, the speed of words going across the screen was
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calculated exactly as in ztspeed (looked up from ztspeed's source code).
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It didn't work as we wanted it to (and probably was the cause of some
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odd bugs), so we changed it.
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From version 0.4.0 the speed increases linearly. It makes the game a bit
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harder, because using the old way speed didn't increase almost at all in
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the beginning. But hopefully scores will now reflect player's actual
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typing speed more accurately.
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Scores will be about 10-25% smaller than with older versions (according to
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our tests). The CPS levels are not affected (why would they be?), but
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they might improve a little, because you won't be typing so long.. <g>
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Turns off the ncurses colors, it can be a more
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clear way to play the game in some situations.
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This will enable the cheat, which wraps words
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instantly when they are written correctly. You
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don't need to press space/enter. It is another
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question if this "cheat" actually helps..
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Training mode (where nm is speed number). It slows
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the game down. Speed number tells how often words
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are moved, normally always. So that with number
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"2", words move every second time in the loop and
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with "4" they move only every fourth time. You
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can't obviously get your name in the high score
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list by using this option.
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Start typespeed in server mode. Typespeed will wait
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for other player to connect.
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Start typespeed in client mode (where addr is net-
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work address of server) Typespeed will try to con-
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nect to the given address and start network play.
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Tells what tcp/ip port will typespeed be using in
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the network play. The default port is 6025.
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Reset/Make scorefiles for the wordfiles found in
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the dir defined in the configs or if no config
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files exist, then in the current dir. Doesn't start
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--help Little explaining of the parameters
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Bugs/Ideas/Comments to <bestis@iki.fi>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Jani Ollikainen <bestis@iki.fi>
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& Jaakko Manelius <jman@iki.fi>
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Test your typing speed and get your fingers' CPS.
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4 High Score File Format
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6 Frequently Asked Questions
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You can download latest version of typespeed on typespeed's website
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located at http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/.
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Typespeed gives your fingers' cps (total and correct), typoratio and
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some points to compare with your friends.
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Typespeed's idea is ripped from ztspeed (a dos game made by Zorlim).
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Idea of the game should be clear to anyone, just type and type it fast
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Please refer to typespeed's manual page.
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4 High Score File Format
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In this section, the new high score file format will be explained.
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The new way to save high scores is especially useful if you are
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interested in creating statistics about your scores.
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The file format has changed with v0.6.0 into a csv format (character
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separated values). The separation character in use is tab ('\t' if you
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speak C). If a tab is used in a field, it is escaped with a
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backslash (\). If a backslash is used in a field, it is escaped with
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That being said, the field values have the following meaning:
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Field | Name | Meaning
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1 | score | How many points has the player gathered?
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2 | total count | How many characters has the player entered?
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3 | enter offset | Count of enter/space pressed to finish a word
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4 | name | What name has the player?
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5 | word list | What word list was in use?
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6 | rule set | Which rule set was in use?
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7 | duration | How long lasted game session? (hundreds of seconds)
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8 | sinit | Value used to fill in random number generator
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227 229 39 Tobias words.unix rule.classic 5600 0
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This means that player "Tobias" played word list "words.unix" with rule
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set "rule.classic". Further more it is easy to tell that no cheat mode
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was in use, because an enter offset of 39 exists. In cheat mode, this
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value would be 0, because no enter/space has to be pressed.
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The value for random number generator is unknown (0). This means that
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this entry has been converted with convert. The score of player "Tobias"
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was 227, with 229 characters typed in total. The game lasted 56 seconds.
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With these information, cps, tcps and typo ratio can be calculated:
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cps = (score + enter offset) / duration * 100
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tcps = (total count + enter offset) / duration * 100
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typo ratio = (1 - (score + enter offset) / (total count + enter offset)) * 100
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If no default values have been changed, an example rule set can be found
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at /usr/local/share/typespeed/rules/template.
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You have to use "rule." as a prefix for your file to be treated as a rule
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Although all lines starting with "#" are handled as comments, the first
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line is special. In the first line, you have to specify the description
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of the rule set - this line MUST start with #.
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All other values should be commented perfectly fine.
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6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: Is typespeed's timing broken? I have used some other programs to
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determine my CPS and it is much higher than with typespeed.
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A: No, typespeed's timing works fine. But you are right, too. At the
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beginning of a typespeed session, there are only a few words on
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screen. Just try to contentrate on your typing rate. If you are a
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fast typer, you will often wait and type nothing until something new
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appears. At the end, you will be indeed faster than measured CPS.
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Typespeed calculates the whole time to measure CPS so the waiting at
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the beginning kills your high rates. If you want to circumvent this,
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try to write an own rule set with min words != 0 and a high speed
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rate. This way, you can measure your real CPS.
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Q: There are no high scores listed in high score menu, but there are
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definitely some in my high score file. What is going wrong?
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A: I guess you have not selected the right rule set. If you do not
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change anything, you have the default rule set. To see other high
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scores, you have to change the rule set first (menu point 6).
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Another possibility is that you have created or removed a user-
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specific configuration file. If that is the case, typespeed switched
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from system-wide high score to user-specific high score (or vice
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versa). To get back to user-specific high score, just create an
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empty configuration file (~/.typespeed/config).
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Bugs/Ideas/Comments to Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@bugol.de>.
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