Here is a mindless script to take a stab at measuring your typing
speed.  It runs /usr/games/fortune to come up with a paragraph or so of
meaningful text and displays that; you type it, you hit return twice to
indicate that you're done and the script tries to figure out your
typing speed.

I took one typing class in the tenth grade many years ago, so I might
have forgotten the exact rules for measuring typing speed, but I seem
to recall that it's something like

	- five characters (including spaces) equals a word
	- ten words off for every error

If this is wrong, someone please tell me and I'll fix the script.

I like running this when I'm bored.  It isn't exactly scientific but I
find it fun, especially when I manage to get an absurdly high score on
a short fortune.  My best so far is about 120 wpm.

No Makefile - it's just a shell script.  "chmod +x type" and run it.
I hope it's portable enough.  It works on Ultrix 3.0 here and I made
a token effort to avoid anything non-portable.  Let me know if
you find something that needs to be fixed.

Steve Hayman
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Tue Sep 26 22:55:19 EST 1989