How To Install typespeed on Fedora 34

typespeed is Test your typing speed and get your fingers’ CPS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install typespeed on Fedora 34.

What is typespeed

Typespeed gives your fingers’ cps (total and correct), typoratio and some points to compare with your friends. Typespeed’s idea is ripped from ztspeed (a DOS game made by Zorlim). The idea behind the game is rather easy flying by from left to right as fast as you can. If you miss 10 or more words, game is over. You can play typespeed for your own or with a friend using TCP/IPv4.

We can use yum or dnf to install typespeed on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install typespeed.

Install typespeed on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install typespeed using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install typespeed

Install typespeed on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install typespeed using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install typespeed

How To Uninstall typespeed on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the typespeed package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove typespeed

typespeed Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/typespeedrc
/usr/bin/typespeed
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/f3db169b60b1446e0ee4234032eea4eb2241c6
/usr/share/applications/typespeed.desktop
/usr/share/doc/typespeed
/usr/share/doc/typespeed/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/typespeed/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/typespeed/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/typespeed/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/typespeed
/usr/share/licenses/typespeed/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/typespeed.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/typespeed.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/typespeed.mo
/usr/share/man/man6/typespeed.6.gz
/usr/share/typespeed
/usr/share/typespeed/rules
/usr/share/typespeed/rules/rule.classic
/usr/share/typespeed/rules/rule.training
/usr/share/typespeed/rules/template
/usr/share/typespeed/words
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.csharp
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.csharp_with_operators
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.dos
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.dut
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.eng
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.esp
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.fin
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.fra
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.ger
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.ita
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.por
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.prog
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.tha
/usr/share/typespeed/words/words.unix
/var/games/typespeed.score

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install typespeed on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.