Searching for a typing game

[Fernando Botelho]

Hi everyone,

I am searching for a game to teach typing, which might run in vim or on
the command line (bash).

I am not a techie and I am new to vim, but I think the console
environment might be excellent for blind computer users like myself. A
typing game would help me introduce the cli to blind youth who are just
getting started with computers.

All suggestions welcome.

Thanks,

Fernando

[Markus Osterhoff]

* Fernando Botelho <Fernando...@F123.org> [160920 23:25]:

> I am searching for a game to teach typing, which might run in vim or on
> the command line (bash).

You are probably searching for typespeed
http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/

Greetings,
mo

[Fernando Botelho]

Thanks everyone for the help with the typing games.

I will try those out.

Best,

Fernando

[Patrick Davey]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 1:24:20 AM UTC+1, Fernando botelho wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am searching for a game to teach typing, which might run in vim or on
> the command line (bash).
>

there is gtypist (apt-get install gtypist)

[aro...@vex.net]

>
> I am searching for a game to teach typing, which might run in vim or on
> the command line (bash).
>

See http://www.freetypinggame.net/Default.asp or
http://www.typingtest.com/games.html

No personal experience with them, but they're a start. Just be paranoid
about downloading malware.

[Fernando Botelho]

Thanks very much. Just a question:

In the Windows world people try to protect themselves using antivirus
software, with very limitted success. In the FOSS world I usually do
this by limitting installations to packages supported by my distro. Is
there any other way in which one can reduce the chances of installing
malware? Assuming of course that one is not a techie and cannot analyze
the source code.

Fernando

[aro...@vex.net]

> In the Windows world people try to protect themselves using antivirus
> software, with very limitted success. In the FOSS world I usually do
> this by limitting installations to packages supported by my distro. Is
> there any other way in which one can reduce the chances of installing
> malware?

Create a user with very limited privileges, (i.e. not a member of any
group in common with anyone else), limited executable directories, and
definitely no sudo rights. Use that id to download, and unzip in their
directories. Have a few short text files in their directories, and look
for any changes to them.

Be sure to use ls -la to see if there are any new .files - these may be
perfectly legitimate, unless they're ... (three or more dots, designed to
masquerade as directory names).

Only put the programs into general use directories after they've run
benignly.

[Markus Osterhoff]

* aro...@Vex.Net <aro...@Vex.Net> [160923 15:46]:

> > In the Windows world people try to protect themselves using antivirus
> > software, with very limitted success. In the FOSS world I usually do
> > this by limitting installations to packages supported by my distro. Is
> > there any other way in which one can reduce the chances of installing
> > malware?
>
> Create a user with very limited privileges, (i.e. not a member of any
> group in common with anyone else), limited executable directories, and
> definitely no sudo rights. Use that id to download, and unzip in their
> directories. Have a few short text files in their directories, and look
> for any changes to them.

For that I can also recommend firejail
https://firejail.wordpress.com/

Best,
mo

[Fernando Botelho]

Great stuff!

Thanks everyone for your answers and your patience with my beginner
questions.

Best,

Fernando