SimplyType

A cross-platform typing game with a clean GUI interface.

Features

• scalable SQLite-based storage with fast access
• appealing interface based on CSS stylesheets
• different game modes
• game statistics and long-term user statistics
• styling and language customization
• a variety of word sets in different languages and user-uploaded word sets
• persistent user settings across sessions

Modes

Learning mode

• Unlimited time
• Cannot proceed further until correct character is typed in
• Summary with the most frequently incorrectly typed characters, wpm etc.

Challenge mode

• Limited time (choose from 30 s, 1 min, etc)
• Incorrectly typed characters are highlighted in real time
• Summary with the most frequently incorrectly typed characters, wpm etc.

Zen mode

• Unlimited time
• Type anything you like
• Relax

Usage

For Windows platform, there is an installer available in the latest release.

There is a small possibility that in the future installers for other platforms will be added. Until then, for Unix system users:

• Clone the repository and set working directory to 'speed-typing-game'

• Create a virtual environment and install required dependencies:

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• install pyinstaller package with pip and run:

  pyinstaller .\speed_typing_game.spec

Contributing color schemes

Place a JSON file with color names and values (see examples in the repository) in a subdirectory resources/styles/[theme]/[color-scheme-name], where theme is either dark or light depending on your colors and color-scheme-name is the name of your color scheme. Then create a pull request.

Contributing translations

To translate the application into a new language using PyQt tools, do the following:

• In a virtual environment, run

  pip install pyqt6==6.0.2 pyqt6-tools==6.0.2.3.2

• Clone the repository and set working directory to 'speed-typing-game'

• run pylupdate to create a new translation file, where [locale] is the locale code for the target language:

  pylupdate . -ts .\speed_typing_game\resources\translate\[locale].ts

• run linguist and complete translations or simply edit XML-based .ts files

• run lrelease to generate a .qm file

• done!

On Windows, you should find executables linguist and lrelease in {virtual_environment_path}\Lib\site-packages\qt6_applications\Qt\bin and pylupdate in {virtual_environment_path}\Scripts