Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

Nice! This is a fun one!

Give https://typequicker.com a try as well. For typing code practice, try typequicker.com. Supports most programming languages, and you can create your own custom snippets as well

Where is the "tab" autocomplete?

I believe the real test would be if this accounted for (at least) people's aliases, and perhaps functions. So parse their .bashrc, .zshrc, .profile, etc. and expand the commands using those aliases to see if the eventual command executed matches the one that is expected here.

This seems to be largely devops stuff, not developer. (Or plain ops.)

Only slightly related, but what increased my code typing speed the most is this (AutoHotKey 2):

; CapsLock + J/K -> ( )

CapsLock & j::SendText "("

CapsLock & k::SendText ")"

; CapsLock + U/I -> [ ]

CapsLock & u::SendText "["

CapsLock & i::SendText "]"

; CapsLock + L/: -> { }

CapsLock & l::SendText "{"

; SC027 = physical ;/: key on a US keyboard

CapsLock & SC027::SendText "}"

; CapsLock + O/P/M/E -> _ + - =

CapsLock & o::SendText "_"

CapsLock & p::SendText "+"

CapsLock & m::SendText "-"

CapsLock & e::SendText "="

"Movie Hacker" should perhaps include nmap and sshnuke [1] despite being a real command and a real skiddie exploit [2]. When that that first played in the movies (The Matrix) people in the bay area theaters were standing up and cheering. People not familiar with the tools were very confused as to what was going on.

[1] - https://nmap.org/movies/

[2] - https://blog.doyensec.com/2025/03/04/exploitable-sshd.html

There's a highscore system but considering it's a matter of time before that gets cheated, the first run where I didn't struggle with backspacing into a previous command (which is blocked):

60s | Basics category | 79 wpm | 100% acc | 38 cmds | QWERTY | Logitech K200 (membrane keyboard from like 2007)

Fun idea, I like the categories and the option to specify keyboard+layout in the highscore, and the page layout/design is very clear. Thanks for making!

Something I realized with the new LLM tools is that learning how to type plain English words fast i.e. without capitalization or punctuation, and even typos is not that big of a problem anymore. And so it follows that code-specific typing is even less important if you can just type in normal words fast and then just check it's output. Although yes for stuff this small i.e. super small terminal commands I feel there does still exist an advantage.

Also, another observation I've had is sometimes I just don't feel like speaking, so voice as input to LLMs is really not an ALL time replacement in my personal opinion. In fact, I find myself preferring to type fast and with typos in lowercase much more than anything else.

"You check out guitar George, he knows all the chords"

I suppose knowing what commands to type has precedence over just typing fast.

Realistically, to measure a lot of this stuff, you need to model tab completion.

I like how our very own Bobby Tables is ranking near the top in several categories!

Go Bobby!

Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from haxxorwpm.0s.is (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more about this warning net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

this is what happens when you dont have always on ssh box for your agents

>grep -R "error" logs

Why is error in quotes?

The speed that I type is not related to the quality of my code. I think then type.

There is no autocompletion, that's not realist. I never type "apt-get install nginx" I type "apt-g<tab> ins<tab> ngi<tab>"

Not bad, 135 WPM.

I wish this had some code or pseudo-code tests!

Similar to: wpm.silver.dev

Cool initiative, UI can be improved.

Bitdefender: "Phishing page blocked for your protection"

Typing speed only really matters for juniors and going into intermediate developers, after that point thinking methodology - abstraction design, data structures, system design, complexity isolation, matter way, WAY more.

50% because by the time you get to this your typing speed has crossed a threshold of no longer being the bottleneck and 50% because you are experienced enough not to make all the silly little mistakes and your unit of work is larger and more complex

Expected this to be speed typing of AI prompts.

This is fun lol. typing tests but for terminal commands instead of regular words is such a niche idea but it actually makes sense. every dev has typed git pull origin main so many times their fingers do it on autopilot, so measuring that muscle memory is a cool way to track terminal fluency.

The leaderboard angle is smart too,people love competing on pointless metrics and wpm is the perfect one for that.would love to see a mode for specific tools tho, like a docker-only round or a vim escape sequence speedrun. The git rebase one would genuinely stress test people lol.

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My typing speed is measured in tokens per second…