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Linux.com: CLI Magic: Typespeed the Fun Typing Tutor

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 9, 2005

“This week’s focal point on CLI Magic fits the topic like butter
on a biscuit. Typespeed is a fun, educational game that you or your
children can use to improve their typing skills. And what does the
CLI require from that Old Mister Easy the GUI doesn’t? That’s
right. Typing skills. Let’s build this thing and give it a
spin.

“Download the latest tarball (0.4.4 is the one I got) from the
Typespeed homepage and decompress it. Then enter the
typespeed-0.4.4 directory and type make. You may need to add the
development version of ncurses to compile typespeed. I did, but
that was the only thing I needed…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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