smokey

Comfy terminal based typing test

Installing

With cargo

cargo install smokey

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/ukmrs/smokey && cd smokey
cargo build --release

then copy target/release/smokey to a known location

Navigation

Typing Test Screen

Settings Screen

Results Screen

word lists

Smokey ships with a sizeable english word list (~60_000 words) which on linux can be found in

~/.local/share/smokey/words

Otherwise location can be found with the --storage flag.

More lists can be added to the folder. Smokey expects a list sorted by word frequency with each word separated by a newline character. Other languages are not provided but most of the time can be easily DIYed.

Suggestions/Examples for word sources

French

Grab Lexique382.zip and unzip it to find Lexique382.tsv. If you have xsv installed, here is an almost one liner to convert it to smokey-friendly format:

xsv sort -s freqlivres -N -R Lexique382.tsv | xsv select ortho > french
sed '1d' french > tmpfile && mv tmpfile french

The only purpose of the sed command is to delete the first line which will be "ortho" - the column name. That could be done manually but I included it for convenience.

Polish

Grab Otwarty słownik frekwencyjny leksemów pdftotext it, sort it and clean it by a short script. Godspeed mój przyjacielu.

Supported languages/scripts

Smokey should handle all simple scripts like

• latin derivatives
• cyrylic
• greek
• etc

Complex scripts that require mulitple inputs for one glyph like Hangul won't work. The same goes for right_to_left scripts.

English word list

The list contains around 60 000 words. It is derived from 1/3 million most frequent English words compiled by Peter Norvig. I filtred it using python bindings of Enchant and checked against the MauriceButler/badwords and LDNOOBW. I kept "sex" though. Otherwise it wouldn't be fair to plants who just cross-pollinate without causing too much of a ruckus. Future me here, I forgot about accursed pollen allergies, I might reconsider my stance on this.

Scripts

There is a scripts directory in which you can throw... scripts. Just chmod +x, add a shebang, slap it in there and the output will be converted to a typing test. There is an example python script shipped with smokey that produces gibberish but of course you can add whatever else. For instance, I use a script that fetches me a random quote from a local database. You can snatch some from Monkeytype or TypeRacer to name a few.

Config

You can create smokey.toml configuration file that allows to change colors or set default test settings. On linux:

~/.config/smokey/smokey.toml

Other OS:

smokey --config

Example smokey.toml

For colors you can use either hex codes or standard colors (supported names).

[colors]
# test colors
todo = "grey"
done = "#96BB7C"
mistake = "#C64756"

# settings colors
active = "#93a1bf"
hover = "#aa78bf"

[test]
# default test settings
name = "english"
mods = ["punctuation", "numbers"]
len = 20
pool = 60000

Run history

Runs are saved to a sqlite database, on linux you can find it here:

~/.local/share/smokey/run_history.db3

For now it is only used to fetch and compare against your record wpm. In the very near future there will be a nice way to explore the history, but I haven't implemented that yet, soz.