# typespeed mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für typespeed in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:typespeed
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install typespeed
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install typespeed
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: typespeed from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install typespeed
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: typespeed from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#typespeed
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ty/typespeed/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:typespeed
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.5
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Zap words flying across the screen by typing them correctly
- **Homepage:** <https://typespeed.sourceforge.net/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- typespeed (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.6.5
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Typespeed is a curses-based terminal typing game for POSIX-style systems. Its official homepage describes a game where words move left to right, the player types them before they pass, and the game ends after too many missed words.

### Projektgeschichte

The project predates its 2007-2008 release page and traces its design to ztspeed, a DOS typing game by Zorlim, according to the official Typespeed homepage. The game is written in C, uses curses for menus and gameplay, and includes both single-player high-score play and TCP/IPv4 multiplayer.

The official changelog records a long 0.x maintenance history: early releases added word lists, network support, configuration files, locale support, high-score changes, and numerous crash and security fixes. Tobias Stoeckmann is listed as a later maintainer in the changelog, and the 2007-2008 homepage news entries focus heavily on reliability, networking, portability, and score handling.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Typespeed spread through classic Unix packaging rather than a modern hosted-code workflow. The official download table listed source tarballs and ports or packages for Fedora Core 6, Mandriva 2008, PS2 Linux, Slackware, and Windows; the homepage also says tested or maintained ports existed for Cygwin, FreeBSD, GNU/Linux distributions, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and Windows.

The batch input shows the package still present in modern package-manager indexes including Homebrew, Debian, Fedora/DNF, Nix, and Ubuntu, which is consistent with an older terminal game kept alive as a small packaged utility.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `typespeed` in a terminal, pick word lists and rules, and type the moving words as quickly as possible. The homepage documents single-player scoring, configurable game rules, and multiplayer sessions where typed words can be sent into an opponent's game.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Typespeed is a small but representative package-nerd artifact: a curses game that survives because it is portable, buildable from tarballs, and easy for Unix package systems to carry. Its appeal is less about current feature velocity and more about the long tail of terminal games maintained across distributions.

### Zeitleiste

- 2007: 0.6.0 through 0.6.4 releases documented on the official homepage.
- 2008: 0.6.5 reliability release published.
- 2008: SourceForge files page lists the 0.6.5 tarball as latest.

### Related projects

- The official homepage says Typespeed's idea was taken from ztspeed. Within package collections it sits beside other curses and terminal games rather than modern GUI typing tutors.

### Quellen

- <https://sourceforge.net/p/typespeed/code/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/typespeed/files/>
- <https://typespeed.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - typespeed - 0.6.5-7: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: typespeed from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Zap words flying across the screen by typing them correctly | https://typespeed.sourceforge.net/
- Nix - typespeed: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ty/typespeed/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - typespeed - 0.6.5-4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: typespeed from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Zap words flying across the screen by typing them correctly | http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/
- dnf - typespeed - 0.6.5-35.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: typespeed from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Test your typing speed and get your fingers' CPS | http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/typespeed.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/typespeed.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
