ctftimer.curses

A terminal-based interactive calculator to compute a custom CTFtime team rating using a weighted formula. Built with Python and curses.

Features

• Navigate and edit fields interactively
• Live calculation of rating based on inputs
• Clean curses-based UI

Formula

$$ \text{points-coef} = \frac{\text{team-points}}{\text{best-points}} $$

$$ \text{place-coef} = \frac{1}{\text{team-place}} $$

$$ \text{rating} = (\text{points-coef} + \text{place-coef}) \times \text{weight} \div \left( \frac{1}{1 + \frac{\text{team-place}}{\text{total-teams}}} \right) $$

Inputs

Input	Type
Weight	float
Total Teams	int
Best Points	float
Team Place	int
Team Points	float

Controls

Key/Action	Function
↑ / ↓	Navigate fields
Tab / Shift+Tab	Cycle through fields
Type	Directly edit fields
Backspace / Delete	Modify input
ESC	Exit

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• Unix-based terminal (for curses support)

Run

./team_score

Notes

• First keystroke in a field clears its default value
• Invalid entries are ignored in real time