Welcome to Baboon¶

Baboon - The typing tutor with personality

Baboon is a cross-platform typing practice application that helps you become a keyboard warrior! Built with Go and featuring both a gorgeous terminal interface and a modern web UI, Baboon makes improving your typing skills actually fun.

Beautiful Interfaces¶

Choose between a stunning Terminal UI with Unicode block letters or a sleek Web UI with physics-based animations.

Adaptive Learning¶

Baboon learns your weak spots and prioritises words with letters you frequently mistype.

Deep Statistics¶

Track per-letter accuracy, finger performance, hand balance, and see where you need to improve.

Real-time Feedback¶

Instant colour feedback as you type - green for correct, red for mistakes. No guessing!

Quick Start¶

Get typing in seconds:

$ nix run github:timlinux/baboon
Starting Baboon typing practice...
Ready! Start typing to begin.

Or download a binary from the releases page.

See It In Action¶

Terminal typing screen — Large block letters with real-time colour feedback

Web typing screen — Modern web interface with physics animations

Why Baboon?¶

Why the name?

Baboons are known for their dexterity and quick fingers - perfect inspiration for a typing tutor! Plus, our mascot is absolutely adorable while hammering away at the keyboard.

30 words per round - Each round has exactly 150 characters for fair WPM comparisons
British English - Proper spellings like "colour" and "behaviour"
Cross-platform - Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows
Nix-ready - Reproducible builds with Nix flakes
Open source - MIT licensed, hack away!

What Our Users Say¶

My typing speed went from 45 WPM to 75 WPM in just two weeks of daily practice with Baboon. The per-letter accuracy tracking helped me identify that my ring fingers were slowing me down!

Ready to Start?¶

Download¶

Grab a pre-built binary for your platform from our releases page.

Installation Guide →

Try Now¶

Jump straight in with our quick start guide.

Quick Start →

Support Baboon ¶

Free software isn't free to make!¶

Baboon represents hundreds of hours of passionate development. It's yours to use forever, completely free. But if it helps you type faster, consider fueling its continued development.

Suggested donation: €10 / $10 - Less than two coffees, but it means the world!

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Made with for typists everywhere