monkeytype VS kmonad

Compare monkeytype vs kmonad and see what are their differences.

monkeytype

The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed. (by monkeytypegame)

kmonad

An advanced keyboard manager [Moved to: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad] (by david-janssen)
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monkeytype kmonad
620 33
13,838 667
4.1% -
9.9 8.5
5 days ago almost 3 years ago
TypeScript Haskell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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monkeytype

Posts with mentions or reviews of monkeytype. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

kmonad

Posts with mentions or reviews of kmonad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
  • Practical question about living with 40% split (+ custom keeb identification)
    2 projects | /r/ErgoMechKeyboards | 5 May 2023
    Similar features are supported by several applications such as KMonad. Basically the only reason to prefer a firmware solution is if you often switch systems (physical computers, virtualization, remote desktop) and keeping more of your configuration in the keyboard is simpler ... and I suppose if you run into latency issues with features like tap/hold.
  • Kinesis Advantage360 ZMK vs SmartSet
    2 projects | /r/ErgoMechKeyboards | 23 Oct 2022
    A lot of my input customization is better implemented [on Linux] in KMonad and then the usual XKB ... and Emacs (or other text editor).
  • Warpstone✨
    1 project | /r/MechanicalKeyboards | 15 Jul 2022
    Lower-level software like KMonad has more or less feature parity with QMK.
  • Is a DIY keeb worth it?
    1 project | /r/MechanicalKeyboards | 6 Jul 2021
    While usually true, much of the same effect can be achieved by using a converter (such as hasu's) that can be built for as little as $15 or so, or in software on the host computer (such as kmonad).
  • Hewwo, allow me to show you my qute keyboard. (Ferris Bling, choc reds)
    2 projects | /r/ErgoMechKeyboards | 20 May 2021
    if somebody is reading this and not familiar with the way how to mod the laptop (or any other) keeb, check KMonad. very slightly buggy but amazingly powerful. and i think there are some alternatives. havent done the proper research though
  • Thoughts on this layout?
    1 project | /r/olkb | 14 May 2021
    Couple of months ago I discovered KMonad (win/mac/linux) which kind of changed my life really. That way you can have functionality similar to what QMK offers (was sort of the main inspiration for the creator of KMonad) with literally any keyboard.
  • HIDmacros
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2021
  • Custom keyboard layout
    1 project | /r/SolusProject | 4 May 2021
    started using Kmonad https://github.com/david-janssen/kmonad seems to be a modern software solution for this, and works well for me.
  • Autokey help
    1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 14 Apr 2021
    I don’t know much about AHK, but if it ends up not working you could look into using kmonad instead.
  • syntax keyword for foo-bar as a whole word
    1 project | /r/vim | 9 Apr 2021
    I wanted to make a syntax plugin for kmonad which has a lot of functions with dashes between the names of it (e.g. tap-next-release function). However, when I use syntax keyword kbdFunction tap-next-release it is interpreted as they are separated words and won't highlight any of them for some reason. Is there any way to make them all highlighted as a single keyword?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing monkeytype and kmonad you can also consider the following projects:

Hacker-Typer - Hacker Typer is a fun joke for every person who wants to look like a cool hacker!

AHK-second-keyboard - AHK-second-keyboard is my AHK script for remapping my primary keyboard and for implementing a full second macro keyboard.

Monkeytype-bot - A bot that types on Monkeytype.

linux

vscode-neovim - Vim mode for VSCode, powered by Neovim

vim-sneak - The missing motion for Vim :athletic_shoe:

vim-clutch - A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim

pyannotate - Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations

pineapple60 - first ergonomic keyboard with Trackpoint

spicetify-cli - Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

BigBagKbdTrixXKB - "DreymaR's Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks" for *nix with XKB