ergotype

A touch typing trainer designed to encourage optimal fingerings.

Foundational Ideas

• Typing accuracy leads to typing speed.
• Optimal fingering depends on the word.
• Any four consecutive keys in a row of a keyboard are a homerow (e.g. uiop and iop[ on qwerty).
• Homerows can easily be reached and typed (small movements of the wrist are helpful).
• Single hand exercises are useful (not exclusively, of course).

Build and Run

Depends on ncurses to build. Please open an issue if it doesn't build on your os/machine or you have suggestions on how to improve the building process. As a last resortand you may use make LOCAL_NCURSES=true instead of make to automatically download and install ncurses locally to ~/.local and build ergotype against that.

Currently, needs a terminal capable of colors, but that dependency is soon going to be removed.

git clone https://github.com/b-kaiser/ergotype.git
cd ergotype
make 
./ergotype

TODOs

• Improve exercises and their order.
• Add exercises with dictionary words.
• Add both-hands exercises.
• Add exercises for speed.
• Make more portable and improve build process.
• Enable different languages and keyboard layouts.
• Get rid of hard-coded stuff in code.
• Clean up code.