rampion/spreto

A speed-reading tool, inspired by spritz.

spreto is a command-line tool. Simply call it with a text file:

$ spreto examples/alice.txt
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After starting, spreto will provide a brief countdown before displaying one
word at a time from the given text file, at a default rate of 250wpm.

While running, you can use the keyboard to issue various commands to spreto:

• <Space> - pause/unpause
• q - quit
• h or ? - pause and show the keyboard commands
• b/B - jump back/forward 5 seconds
• s/S - jump back/forward one sentence
• p/P - jump back/forward one paragraph
• r - toggle reading direction backwards/forwards
• <Left> - go one word back and pause
• <Right> - go one word forward and pause
• <Up> - increase wpm
• <Down> - decrease wpm

Pausing will display the context of the current word, allong with the wpm and
the position (in time, words, sentences, and paragraphs).

────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
…umphantly.  Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped hersel…
────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    250wpm          51%           1:00:17/1:57:51          403.0.1
 403/881 paragraphs       1104/2290 sentences       15073/29465 words

spreto also has command line options to allow you to start with a custom
wpm or at a certain position in the text.