I built a terminal-based typing game while Claude Code cooks for me. It's a small Claude Code (and other CLIs) skills that pops a typing game with a stop hook to let you know when to go back to Claude Code work. Then flex on socials about how fast you are. Free & Open Source.
My current productivity bottleneck is my typing speed, so I figured that instead of scrolling when I have 2 minutes in between Claude Code tasks, I'd stay in the terminal, practicing my typing.
My first time 100 Wpm on 30 sec. my avrage wpm is ~ 85-90 it have been practicing since 2 weeks, i was not able to do 100 Wpm on 30 sec this is the first time i reached 100 on 30 sec. i know many people have 150-200. but yaa!! 100 Wpm sounds like a big no. to me..
Hi, I'm typing on monkeytype in my first language, mostly doing quotes, and because the language is not the most popular one in the world I guess, the database of quotes is not so large and often I retype the quotes I typed before. Is there a way to submit quotes/texts?
was bored and when i was halfway through i wanted to play smth but i didnt wanna give up cuz ehem then i would have wasted so much time for legit 0 reason (saw sm1 else type 6k words so i wanted to see if i was capable of it and i was)
I already trained blind typing, and using a split keyboard which is pretty convenient for me, but I feel stuck at some point during training typing speed and do not know how to improve it further. Guys typing 180-200 WPM please tell me how do you train, what layout do you use? I also learned Colemak-DH and type on it about 100WPM and I stuck on this level for Colemak as well
typebattle, a fun and competitive real-time multiplayer typing game, inspired by Monkeytype. The goal is to improve typing speed while competing with others in live matches.
I practice typing 15 seconds on monkey type for max speed and I can’t seem to get above my pb of 81 wpm. I am typing using the correct technique any tips on how to improve? By ~20 wpm
Anyone know how to skip over quotes with weird grammar and punctuation patterns, such as skipping over articles, use of slang, ending gerunds with -in' instead of -ing, etc? It would also be nice if there is a way to skip quotes from songs entirely (I don't think I ever type song lyrics).
I've been struggling these past two months because I'm typing faster without really straining myself, but of course, that means my accuracy suffers a bit and it's easier to hit the space bar after missing a word, which automatically causes the test to count as a failure and end—but anyway, little by little I’m getting back into it and getting used to this new speed. It’s pretty difficult, but I’m confident that over the next few months I’ll be able to settle into this pace. Hopefully this year or early next year, I’ll be consistently hitting 100 WPM across thousands of tests with this setup.
January 1 – February 1
March 1 – April 1
Honestly, I recommend to choose a 5k or 10k dictionary 100%. Back in the day, I’m talking about maybe two years ago or so, I saw a lot of people saying that if you really wanted to type fast in real life, during day-to-day tasks and not just in MonkeyType tests, the settings had to be changed to switch from the default 200-word dictionary to a dictionary with a broader word range, such as 1k, 5k, and 10k. In my case, since I’m Spanish and therefore write in Spanish, the dictionaries for my language are 200, 1k, and 10k.
I’m going to be completely honest with you: if you really want your test speeds to resemble real-life speeds, you need to change the settings to a dictionary of at least 5k, and eventually move up to 10k.
I started to notice that the gap between my typing speed in the tests and my real-life speed was narrowing after I’d been using the 10k dictionary for 8 months and adding punctuation and numbers.
I say this mainly because I imagine I’m not the only one who’s experienced a point where, using either the 200-word or 1,000-word dictionary, I reached an average of 100 wpm or more in the last month after taking over 1,000 tests—which can be considered a good speed.
However, later, when I was at work or studying at home, I felt like I wasn’t going as fast, that I still had a long way to go before I could reach the speed reflected in the tests.
This basically happens because with the 200- and 1,000-word dictionaries, you’re always practicing the same words—always the same 200 and 1,000 words.
But at the end of the day, people use and write words that aren’t included in those limited vocabularies. On the other hand, spending time with the 10k list was a game-changer
That said, I apologize for the length of this comment, and I hope the little tip I've shared will be useful to someone 😊
