-l
Three languages
English, Russian and Ukrainian source texts, swappable with a single flag.
$ npm i -g nodespeed
Type fast.
Race friends.
Never leave the terminal.
NodeSpeed is a typing test that lives in your shell — pick a language and difficulty, race the clock, or challenge someone else to a live 1v1 duel with nothing but a room code.
checking who's online…
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racers online right now
3
languages — en / ru / ua
3
difficulty levels
1v1
real-time duels
features
Everything a terminal speedrunner needs
-c
Difficulty levels
Three complexity tiers, from warm-up paragraphs to dense technical text.
-m
Normal or timed
Race against a text with no clock, or set a hard time limit and beat it.
-s
Bring your own text
Point NodeSpeed at a local file or a URL and type that instead of the built-ins.
--stats
Local & global stats
Every attempt is logged locally, and synced to your account so you can track progress anywhere.
-o
Online duels
Quick-match a stranger or challenge a friend with a room code. Fastest, most accurate typist wins.
how duels work
One command, one code, one race
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01
Run
nodespeed -oChoose quick match to find a random opponent, or create a private room for a friend.
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02
Share the room code
Creating a room hands you a short code like
7F3K9Q. Send it to whoever you want to race — they runnodespeed -o, pick "join", and paste it in. -
03
Race, live
Both terminals get the same text at the same moment. NodeSpeed compares accuracy first, then time, and announces a winner the second you both finish.
get it
Download NodeSpeed
Prebuilt binaries, no runtime required.
Prefer npm? npm i -g nodespeed — or clone the
source on GitHub.