GNU Typist

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GNU Typist is ranked #33 of 35 in typing tutors on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, Windows. There is a free plan.

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GNU Typist Free GNU General Public License · No paid plans listed gnu.org · 11 Oct 2026

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Purpose: GNU Typist is a typing tutor for learning correct typing and improving typing skills through practice.
Lessons: It includes tutorials for English QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak keyboards, plus lessons in Czech, Russian and Spanish and simpler exercises in German, French and Norwegian.
Custom lessons: Users can modify tutorials or create new ones using the program’s scripting language.
Interface: The program uses a text mode interface with an arrow key based menu, and also supports vi movement keys.
Scoring: Typing exercises include drills and speed tests, and the manual says results can be displayed in words per minute or characters per minute.
Editor support: The manual documents an Emacs major mode with syntax highlighting and commands for editing lessons, and Vim syntax highlighting for lesson files.
Integrations: The manual describes typefortune, a utility that lets users practice with text from the fortune program.
Platforms: The project page says GNU Typist can be compiled and used on GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, Unix variants, and Windows with PDCurses and MinGW.
License: The project page describes GNU Typist as free software released under the GNU General Public License.
Support: The project invites bug reports, suggestions, patches and new lessons at [email protected] and offers a mailing list at that address.
Audience: The stated project goal is to help individuals and schools learn or teach typing.
Download note: The project page says available precompiled Windows binaries may have a multi-byte input problem that was expected to be addressed in a later release.
Price from: Free

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gnu.org/software/gtypist/gtypist.html· checked 11 Oct 2026
gnu.org/software/gtypist/doc/gtypist.html· checked 11 Oct 2026