Typon relies on ncurses for its Terminal User Interface (TUI). With Typon, you can practice typing any customized quote, and even have some extra fun by competing against your previous best records. Typon is our favorite of the terminal-based typing trainer tools as it tracks your progress over time, so you can see how you've improved, and boasts an easy and intuitive keyboard-driven interface. Further lessons are unlocked as you progress. Once installed, you can start KTouch through your system menu.īefore you start training, KTouch will ask you for your name and previous typing experience, before pitching appropriately leveled lessons for you. If you're not running KDE, you'll be facing a hefty download of at least 170MB, which for a simple typing game, is quite a lot. To install KTouch on Fedora, RHEL, and Rocky Linux, run: sudo dnf install ktouch On Arch-based Linux distros: sudo pacman -S ktouch To install KTouch on Debian and derivatives: sudo apt install ktouch Skeuomorphic representations on analog dials show you the current time, your characters per minute rate, and your accuracy. It supports multiple keyboard layouts and languages. If you're a visual learner, and unfamiliar with your keyboard layout, KTouch shows you a color-coded representation of your keyboard on the screen and can highlight which key needs to be hit next. KTouch is the only GUI-driven typing tutor on this list and was developed by The KDE Education Project with the aim of improving your touch typing skills in multiple languages.

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