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A typing-speed tester that runs entirely in your terminal. It draws from a library of 6,000+ real quotes and word lists of up to 10,000 words, so you practically never get the same text twice. Live WPM and accuracy update as you type, and the clock only starts when you hit your first key.

• Character-accurate feedback — correct letters go green, mistakes go red, and the cursor is a solid block. Characters never shift position, so the text can't reflow under your fingers mid-word.
• Three modes — random words, real quotes with sources, or hand-written passages.
• Configurable — length, word pool difficulty, punctuation, numbers, quote size.
• Never repeats — quotes you've seen are remembered across sessions.
• Works offline — the library caches locally, with built-in fallbacks if you've never been online.
• Zero config — no API keys, no accounts, no telemetry.

The clock starts on your first keystroke, not when the screen appears. Until then the panel border stays dim and the stats read --.

Press s from the menu. Options that don't apply to the current mode grey out and refuse to change — here quote size is inactive because the mode is random words. Everything saves as you go.

git clone https://github.com/TheHolyOneZ/ztype.git
cd ztype
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/python ztype.py

Arch, Debian 12+, Fedora and other PEP 668 distros block installing into the system Python, so the virtual environment above isn't optional. If you'd rather install globally anyway, use pipx or pip install --user --break-system-packages.

Requires Python 3.9+. Dependencies are just Textual and Rich.

The mouse works too — hovering a menu or settings row selects it, clicking activates it.

Settings live in ~/.config/ztype/settings.json.

ZTYPE pulls from Monkeytype's public dataset — 6,488 English quotes with sources and length buckets, plus frequency-ordered word lists at 200 / 1k / 5k / 10k words. No API key, no account.

The download (~2.4 MB) happens once, on a background thread so the menu stays responsive, and lands in ~/.cache/ztype/. After that, startup reads from cache in about 10 ms.

On never seeing the same text twice: quote IDs you've been served are recorded in ~/.cache/ztype/seen.json and only reset once you've worked through the entire library. Word mode composes fresh text every run, so repeats are effectively impossible.

If the network is unreachable and nothing is cached, ZTYPE falls back to a built-in word list and eight hand-written passages rather than failing.

A "word" is five characters, the standard convention.

• WPM (net) — counts only characters that ended up correct.
• Raw — counts every keystroke, right or wrong.
• Accuracy — correct keystrokes ÷ total keystrokes. Backspacing fixes your WPM but not your accuracy: the bad keystroke still counts, the same way Monkeytype scores it.
• Errors — total mistakes made, with uncorrected ones reported separately.

• Quote and word data from Monkeytype (GPL-3.0). ZTYPE fetches it at runtime and does not bundle or redistribute it.
• Built with Textual and Rich by Textualize.

MIT © 2026 TheHolyOneZ