使用 Homebrew 安装 typespeed

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• typespeed

项目历史

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.

采用历史

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.

使用方式

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.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

时间线

• 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.

来源

• 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