Module: SpeedRead

Defined in:
lib/speed_read.rb,
lib/speed_read/version.rb

Constant Summary collapse

ORP_VISUAL_POS = 
20
VERSION = 
"0.0.2"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.colorize_word(word, i) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/speed_read.rb', line 36

def colorize_word(word, i)
  return "" unless word
  pre    = word[0...i]
  pivot  = word[i] ? word[i].colorize(:red) : ""
  suffix = word[i+1..-1]
  "#{pre}#{pivot}#{suffix}"
end

.find_ORP(word) ⇒ Object

ORP: Optical Recognition Point (the red-colored alignment pilot), # the way Spritz probably does it.



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# File 'lib/speed_read.rb', line 30

def find_ORP(word)
  return 0 if word.nil?
  return 4 if word.length > 13
  return [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3][word.size];
end

.start(words_per_minute) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/speed_read.rb', line 11

def start(words_per_minute)
  puts " " * ORP_VISUAL_POS + "v".colorize(:red)
  ARGF.each do |line|
     words = line.chomp.split(/(?:-|\s)+/).compact.reject{|e| e.empty?}
     words.each do |w|
       word = w.chomp.strip
       # pad the end of your lines with spaces if they might be shorter than the previous line.
       i = find_ORP(word);
       output = " " * (ORP_VISUAL_POS-i) + colorize_word(word,i)
       print output.ljust(80, " ") + "#{words_per_minute} wpm\r"
       $stdout.flush
       sleep (60.0 / words_per_minute.to_i)
     end
  end
  puts
end