ttt is a terminal program to test your typing speed, written in C++. Supports code (auto indentation) and unicode (all languages of the world).

Simply pipe the text you'd like to type into ttt.

Or generate a random typing test:

• Quotes: ttt -q picks a random quote from the included list (courtesy of tt)
• Words: ttt -n 20 picks 20 random words from the included list (courtesy of tt)
• AI: a language model generates text, e.g., via aichat.

$ aichat "Short poetic paragraph about space travel." | ttt --wrap 80

Red dust fell behind as the ship cut through Mars' orbit. Stars beckoned. The
void stretched endless and dark. We sailed on.
Time: 0:10, WPM: 143, Accuracy: 100.00% 🎉

• -q, --quote [LISTNAME] to use a random quote [optional: name of quote list (default: en)]
• -n, --nwords N [LISTNAME] to generate N random words [optional: name of word list (default: 1000en)]
• -t, --tab WIDTH to set the tab width (default: 4)
• -w, --wrap WIDTH to word wrap to the given width (default: wrap to terminal width)
• -h, --help to show help info
• -v, --version to show version info

These shortcuts are available while typing:

• Ctrl+C or Esc to abort the test
• Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Backspace to delete the last word
• Ctrl+R to reset the test

This project uses CMake and has otherwise no dependencies. To download and build it, run the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/tom94/ttt
$ cmake -B build
$ cmake --build build

I wanted to play around with AI-assisted coding and creating ttt seemed like a fun way to do it. Ergo: this project was in big parts written by AI (maybe 50%?), with me stepping in to fix bugs, making higher-level decisions about tooling and dependencies, etc. It's amazing how far these large language models have come!

I used neovim with the avante plugin, but if you're not already in the vim ecosystem, you can do the same in cursor.

• Better (configurable?) colors
• Windows support
• Squash bugs as they appear

• aichat: the perfect companion to ttt.
• unilib: for making unicode handling a breeze.
• tt: another terminal typing test. ttt is inspired by tt and uses its word and quote lists.

GPLv3, because why not.