Typing Titans

Overview

• Take typing tests to determine your WPM (words per minute) and accuracy
• Choose from a variety of tests with varying durations and difficulties
• Your scores are automatically saved so you can see how you compare to other users

Features

• Save user scores
• Ranking/Leaderboard page
• Extensible level system
• Light and dark modes
• User profile page
• User leveling system
• Level difficulty rating (Flesch Kincaid readibility tests)
• Per-level leaderboards

A guide to the subdirectories

• test - where the user takes a test from the selected level
• level - level selection page
• libs - miscellaenous libraries needed for other pages
• login - pages for user login and registration
• ranking - user rankings page(s)
• home - website homepage
• util - miscellaneous utility scripts

Running from source

• Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/reddign/typing.git
• Create a file in the libs directory called dbcreds.ini with the following contents (replace the temporary values with valid ones)

# Credentials used to connect to the MySQL database
ip = "database.ip.address"
schema = "schema-with-needed-tables"
username = "your_username"
password = "your password"

• Start the webserver of your choosing and navigate to the project's url