Check your pulse quickly & easily on a CLI, by pressing any key for each pulse you feel.
It will wait until you press any key to start counting, and automatically stop counting after 60 seconds by default, or after 200 beats.
You can also press Enter to finish counting early.
You can reasonably get a fairly accurate pulse in only ~15-25 seconds if you're confident in your ability to feel it, it's just a learned skill which you can get a feel for.
# Build and run
make
./check-human-pulse
# Automatically stop after 15 seconds, instead of the default 60:
./check-human-pulse -s 15
- Fix progress bars breaking when waiting too long? Idk what happened here, it worked earlier
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Fix terminal newlines and so on being weird after the program closes, requiring you to refresh your prompt / rc - Uhhh display current BPM, maybe nicer displays? I would like it to be more compact and visually appealing
- Maybe some kind of fun meter displaying a range of what your current BPM means, maybe view historic results?
- Automatically saving results to a spreadsheet or some kind of way to save and export them would be cool