diff --git a/pkgs/games/gtypist/default.nix b/pkgs/games/gtypist/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8fd2e28e77b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/games/gtypist/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "gtypist-2.9.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.1.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1yv209aih1ixbs477vzzk1xj013g6w32vi33g0hldfzvfxbl9y5s";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ncurses];
+
+  patches = [ (fetchurl {
+    url = "http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/ncurses.patch?h=packages/gtypist";
+    sha256 = "1chdr4xkm140cjwv1n3ydk04qdwgycd12d9adz2sjc58lybqp7sy";
+  })];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist;
+    description = "GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal typing tutor.";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b00f442e783..dd13ca0a81b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7703,6 +7703,8 @@ let
     inherit (gnome) gnomedocutils;
   };
 
+  gtypist = callPackage ../games/gtypist { };
+
   hexen = callPackage ../games/hexen { };
 
   icbm3d = callPackage ../games/icbm3d { };