Terminal skills training games
Commands, regex, and operational thinking, taught by games instead of drills. The habits carry over to the rest of the site and to a real shell.
$ games training9 games · browse from the terminalTraining
In shelf order: start at the top, and the bottom rows are still being built in the open.
CTF: Capture the Flag
Master the command line one concept at a time. Graduated puzzles teach navigation, text processing, and shell mastery.
Field Work
Fix a service outage in a practice shell: find the cause, keep the evidence, repair it and write a handoff note
Termiclanker
Learn Bash by scripting a robot through 40 levels and defend a base of your own
Mass Driver BETA
Switch electromagnets on and off to launch a payload, by hand or with a Bash script
Regex Golf
Write the shortest regex that matches one list of strings and rejects the other
Baud
Typing test in the terminal — 30 s, 60 s, 25 words, or a passage; WPM and accuracy; race another typist live
TTL
Spaced-repetition flashcards for the 50 states and your own decks in ~/decks.
Mandate: Shell Rising BETA
Write Bash scripts that command troops across thirteen levels in a fictional world inspired by Warring States China, ending in a linked operation; Level 12 is a provisional playtest candidate
Port Governance BETA
Run a town gate for three days by writing the Bash scripts that decide who gets in