clix

clix is a terminal-based typing practice application written in Rust. It generates an English paragraph, measures live WPM, and displays a sparkline of WPM. Mistyped characters are shown directly under the target text. When a test finishes a compact results overlay is shown and pressing Enter restarts with a new paragraph.

Features:

• Live WPM count (words per minute, 5 chars/word)
• Live sparkline graph of recent WPM
• Random paragraph generation
• Per-character correctness coloring (green/red)

Build and run

• Requires Rust toolchain (stable)

PowerShell (release):

cargo build --release
cargo run --release

Dependencies

- lock_api          v0.4.13
- anyhow            v1.0.86
- windows-targets   v0.52.6
- crossterm_winapi  v0.9.1
- ppv-lite86        v0.2.21
- parking_lot_core  v0.9.11
- rand_chacha       v0.3.1
- rand              v0.8.5
- parking_lot       v0.12.4
- crossterm         v0.25.0
- crossterm         v0.26.1
- tui               v0.19.0

Thanks to the maintainers and contributors of these crates for their work.

File Structure

.
├─ src/
│  ├─ main.rs             # main TUI program and input handling
│  └─ lib.rs              # paragraph/text generator utilities
├─ .github/
│  └─ workflows/
│     └─ release.yml      # CI workflow to build and attach release artifacts
├─ scripts/
│  └─ make_release.ps1    # build + package helper
└─ README.md

Notes

• Terminal key sequences vary by terminal emulator and platform. If Ctrl+Backspace does not behave as expected in your terminal, run the program in your environment and report the raw key events so the handler can be adapted.

Roadmap

• Ability to add custom pdfs or list of words
• Better UI
• Custom timer, word count ability
• Better graph visualisation like monkeytype
• Typing History and leaderboards

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.