{"id":53025,"date":"2026-08-27T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53025"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:16:30","slug":"testing-tip-make-your-keyboard-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/27\/testing-tip-make-your-keyboard-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Tip: Make Your Keyboard Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/testing-tip-make-your-keyboard-fast\/\">Marcin Wichary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/testing-tip-make-your-keyboard-fast\/\">\n<p>By default, on a Mac, the initial delay is 500ms, and the key repeat rate 1000ms.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion is to make them both as short as possible for testing.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>First, it&rsquo;s good to test whether your keystrokes behave well when repeated. Occasionally you might want your interface to <a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/por-que-no-los-dos-pt-1\/\">suppress repeating<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/a-quick-internet-search-should-provide-you-with-step-by-step-instructions\/\">do something special<\/a> if the key is held longer.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it&rsquo;s a good test not just of repeating, but just the user pressing keys really fast. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/testing-tip-always-show-scrollbars\/\">Testing Tip: Always Show Scrollbars<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Wichary: By default, on a Mac, the initial delay is 500ms, and the key repeat rate 1000ms. [&#8230;] My suggestion is to make them both as short as possible for testing. [&#8230;] First, it&rsquo;s good to test whether your keystrokes behave well when repeated. Occasionally you might want your interface to suppress repeating, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-08-27T23:16:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"7b2665bb-3197-4299-8e41-fa54bf6eefe4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-08-27T23:16:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AeyZluzGXQpmOQfpUv27v5A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[423,30,138,71,268],"class_list":["post-53025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-optimization","tag-programming","tag-testing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53026,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025\/revisions\/53026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}