vroom - a Perl/Tk program for practicing your typing
vroom [--characters=N] [--competitive] [--help] [--nocompetitive] [--speed=INTEGER] [FILE]
vroom displays text to type, when you finish typing the text, it displays your typing speed. There are two modes: competitive and non-competitive. In competitive mode you must keep up with the speed that vroom is displaying text at, but if you type faster than that speed, then, like cruise control in cars, it will temporarily speed up to accomodate you. The speed at which it presents you with new text and the mode it runs in are both configurable on the command line and at runtime.
vroom uses a normal ASCII file to get the text it displays. Any sequence of whitespace (tab, space, or newline) is converted to a single space because otherwise it is difficult to tell the difference between the three kinds of whitespace.
the number of characters that will be displayed at once (default is 50).
run in competitive mode (default).
display a short usage message.
run in non-competitive mode.
set the speed (in characters per minute) that new characters are displayed at to INTEGER, only used in competitive mode (default is 60).
the data file to load initially.
gabriel m. deal <gmd@yellowleaf.org> http://www.yellowleaf.org/gmd/