rusty-type

🦀 Rusty Type — A Terminal Typing Speed Game

A fast, minimal, and fully terminal-based typing test built with Rust and Termion. Measure your WPM, accuracy, and typing speed right in your console.

🚀 Features

• ⚡ Real-time typing feedback — green for correct, red for mistakes
• ⏱️ Live timer running concurrently with input
• 🎯 WPM, accuracy, and score tracking (optional scoreboard)
• 💬 Random sentence generator for each test
• 🧠 Built from scratch using Termion (no TUI frameworks) to understand terminal control, raw input, and concurrency in Rust
• 🧰 Lightweight — zero dependencies beyond termion and random_word

🛠️ Built With

• Rust 🦀 — safe and fast systems language
• Termion — pure Rust terminal manipulation library
• Random Word — for generating random words

🧩 How It Works

Rusty Type runs entirely in the terminal:

• The app enters raw mode, reading keystrokes directly.
• A separate timer thread tracks elapsed time while the main thread handles user input and rendering.
• The terminal output is dynamically updated with colors and cursor positioning.
• Once you finish typing or time runs out, stats are shown instantly.

🕹️ Usage

Clone and Run

git clone https://github.com/DelwinPrakash/rusty-type.git
cd rusty-type
cargo run

📸 Preview

    Welcome to RUSTY-TYPE

    Rusty type help you improve your typing speeddddd!

    Select your test mode:
    1: 10 words
    2: 20 words
    3: 50 words
    4: Custom number of words
    5: About
    6: Exit

    Press Esc to exit. Start typing

    TIME: 16.7s | WPM: 42.5 | Correct: 59 | Incorrect: 4

    color cohog nutsy gowks smaze earth zibet devon cafes snaky

    YOUR RUSTY-RESULT

    Time taken: 16.67 seconds
    WPM (Net Speed): 43.2
    Correct Characters: 60
    Incorrect Characters: 4
    Accuracy: 93.8%

🎯 Goals & Learning

Rusty Type was created to:

• Learn low-level terminal control in Rust

• Understand raw input handling, multithreading, and terminal rendering

• Build a minimal, interactive CLI app from scratch

📜 License

MIT License © Delwin Prakash