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Real terminal commands with every flag, pipe, path and quote mark left in: find, grep, curl, docker, tar and ssh. The test above is already set to Shell.
Each run shuffles real shell commands together until there are at least 55 pieces to type. Three of them, exactly as they appear:
find . -name "*.log" -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;grep -rniE "todo|fixme" --include="*.js" src/ \
| awk -F: '{print $1}' \
| sort -ufor f in *.png; do
convert "$f" -resize 50% "thumbs/${f%.png}.png"
doneTyped as tokens: find . -name "*.log" -mtime +7 and so on, one Space between each.
Type a piece, press Space and move on. A piece only counts when every character is right, so a missing hyphen in front of a flag makes it wrong, just as it would break the command.
About a quarter of every character in these commands is a symbol, the highest share in the code test. Hyphens lead by a distance, because every flag starts with one or two. Then come dots and slashes from paths, double quotes around arguments, dollar signs for variables and the pipe that joins commands together:
| Symbol | Name | Share of symbols | Key (US layout) | Finger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
" | Double quote | 18% | Shift + ' | Right little |
- | Hyphen (minus) | 15% | - | Right little |
. | Full stop (dot) | 11% | . | Right ring |
/ | Slash | 6% | / | Right little |
$ | Dollar | 6% | Shift + 4 | Left index |
' | Single quote | 5% | ' | Right little |
\ | Backslash | 5% | \ | Right little |
% | Percent | 5% | Shift + 5 | Left index |
| | Pipe | 4% | Shift + \ | Right little |
* | Asterisk | 3% | Shift + 8 | Right middle |
The pipe, |, is Shift plus backslash: a long stretch for the right little finger, above Enter on most US keyboards. The dollar sign is Shift plus 4, typed with the left index finger, so hold Shift with the right hand.
-rniE and --no-audit are shapes you type often. The hyphen should be part of the word, not a separate decision." and '. Practise opening and closing them as a pair.Net words per minute counts correct characters, five to a word, and accuracy counts every key you press. The result shows raw WPM, consistency, your slowest pieces and a heatmap of missed keys, saved in your browser.
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Real one-line commands: find with -exec, a grep piped into awk and sort, docker run with a volume, curl with an Authorization header piped into jq, a for loop over PNG files, ps sorted by CPU, tar with a dated file name and ssh with a key file. They are shuffled into every run.
Shell has the highest share of symbols of any language here, about one character in four. Flags start with hyphens, paths are full of dots and slashes, and quotes, dollar signs and pipes all need Shift. Accuracy is the thing to watch.
The commands are written for Bash and work the same in most Unix shells, such as zsh. They are typing practice only: nothing you type here is run.
No. This page opens the code test in Shell for this visit only. Your saved code language stays as it was until you pick another in the options above the test.
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