Smassh is a TUI based typing test application inspired by MonkeyType, a popular online web-based typing application.
Smassh tries to be a full fledged typing test experience without missing out on looks and feel.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- An interactive and beautiful user interface.
- Words and Time modes for typing
- Real-time comparison of speed carets
- Change styles/settings on the fly
- Multiple theme support
- Multiple language support
- Lots of options to tweak:
- Blind mode – you wouldn’t be able to see your mistakes.
- Capital Letters – some letters in your tasks will be capitalized!
- Caret Style – caret style matters!
- Confidence mode – are you sure you don’t need backspace? Try this 🙂
- Cursor Buddy – setup your cursor buddy to run along with you!
- Difficulty – choose how strict smassh should be with your wrong keypresses.
- Force Correct – you wouldn’t be able to able to go on without cleaning your pool of mistakes.
- Min Accuracy – fall below this average accuracy and you fail!
- Min Burst – fall below this average accuracy for even a word and you fail!
- Min Speed – fall below this average speed and you fail!
- Tab Reset – hey hey! You wanna reset already?
Website: github.com/kraanzu/smassh
Support:
Developer: Murli Tawari
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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