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

“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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