Ktouch is a good program in Ubuntu for practice your typing. The latest version is Ktouch 1.5.3 which is using KDE 3.5.8. Although it is designed for KDE, you still can use it with Gnome.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install ktouch
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdeedu-data kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a libarts1c2a libavahi-qt3-1 libkdeedu3
liblua50 liblualib50 libopenexr2c2a
Suggested packages:
fam khelpcenter kdeedu-doc-html
Recommended packages:
perl-suid libarts1-akode
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kdeedu-data kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a ktouch libarts1c2a libavahi-qt3-1
libkdeedu3 liblua50 liblualib50 libopenexr2c2a
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.4MB of archives.
After unpacking 67.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main kdeedu-data 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu1 [25.3kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main kdelibs-data 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2 [7295kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libarts1c2a 1.5.8-0ubuntu1 [1116kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libavahi-qt3-1 0.6.20-2ubuntu3 [31.9kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main liblua50 5.0.3-2build1 [48.9kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main liblualib50 5.0.3-2build1 [35.3kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libopenexr2c2a 1.2.2-4.3ubuntu2 [305kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2 [10.0MB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libkdeedu3 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu1 [141kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main ktouch 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu1 [1397kB]
Fetched 20.4MB in 3m25s (99.3kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package kdeedu-data.
(Reading database … 96284 files and directories currently installed.)
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Selecting previously deselected package ktouch.
Unpacking ktouch (from …/ktouch_4%3a3.5.8-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Setting up kdeedu-data (4:3.5.8-0ubuntu1) …
Setting up kdelibs-data (4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2) …
Setting up libarts1c2a (1.5.8-0ubuntu1) …
Setting up libavahi-qt3-1 (0.6.20-2ubuntu3) …
Setting up liblua50 (5.0.3-2build1) …
Setting up liblualib50 (5.0.3-2build1) …
Setting up libopenexr2c2a (1.2.2-4.3ubuntu2) …
Setting up kdelibs4c2a (4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2) …
Setting up libkdeedu3 (4:3.5.8-0ubuntu1) …
Setting up ktouch (4:3.5.8-0ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$
You can check you typing ability.
You can see your progress in a chart.
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