How can I change the speed that my turtle rotates?

Question

I'm using turtle to draw a massive project but the turning takes years to do.

I have tried the command turtle.speed("fastest") but that only changes distance speed not rotational speed.

Answer 1

By looking at the documentation for turtle , it looks like turtle.speed() controls both speed and rotation:

Speeds from 1 to 10 enforce increasingly faster animation of line drawing and turtle turning.

Additionally ,

speed = 0 means that no animation takes place. forward/back makes turtle jump and likewise left/right make the turtle turn instantly.

Note that turtle.speed("fastest") sets speed = 0. Maybe try changing speed to 10 with just turtle.speed(10) or turtle.speed("fast") .

Your current solution sounds like it should work, if you add some example code we might be able to better assist you in finding a solution!

Answer 2

you can use turtle.speed(speed=None) where speed is an integer in the range 0.. 10 or a speedstring.

if the input is a number greater than 10 or smaller than 0.5, speed is set to 0.Speedstrings are mapped to speed values as follows:

"fastest":0

"fast":10

"normal":6

"slow":3

"slowest":1

speed from 1 to 10 enforce increasingly faster animation of line drawing and turtle turning.speed=0 means that no animation takes place.forward/back makes turtle jump and likewise left/right make the turtle turn instantly.

eg: turtle.speed()

 turtle.speed(9)

 turtle.speed('normal')