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Rapid-Fire Typing
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When the operator controls the computer by a continuous stream of clackity-clackity typing. Anything can be done by a computer master through this technique. By typing so fast we can't see what they are doing. This trope is an effort to suspend disbelief where otherwise you would be left wondering why we can't see the screen at the time. This rapid typing would make sense if one were merely typing a letter, but this is usually used to indicate programming or operating a system. There are no pauses to wait for a result, to think through the options, open a file or start a program. Even if they have a GUI, they don't use the mouse. We rarely if ever have a clear view of the screen during instances of this; otherwise the gap between the typing and what's actually happening would be more obvious. Also, the astute listener will notice that the 'chunk' of the spacebar and the Enter key, which are distinct from the 'clickity-click' of the rest of the keys, is rarely if ever heard. While some people actually are this fast at typing, they usually have to either rely on autocomplete, which requires advanced editors that support this feature, or go back and delete spelling errors later, which is not an ideal state when programming. Not that anyone writes program code this fast anyway, because you always spend more time thinking about program logic and correcting minor errors. In fact, functionsnote the specific name may vary in each language, they may also be called "methods" or "subroutines" exist precisely to avoid the need to write walls of text or repetitive code, and doing so instead of taking advantage of functions is a clear sign of bad programming — to the extent that some programmers will look askance at code that doesn't take advantage of every possible way of reducing the number of characters used. Why write an If-Then-Else over several lines when you could use a Conditional Operator instead, and get it into one line?note ...to which other people say, because If-Then-Else is easier to read and understand, and then there are Flame Wars, and let's leave it there. Occasionally this can be justified through Truth in Television as many computer users can indeed do things quicker by using the keyboard exclusively through shortcuts instead of a mouse, especially if using command line interfaces or macro keys. Even more occasionally, more fantastic settings may present this as something deliberately weird, to hint (or illustrate) that a character is an android, a wizard, or otherwise abnormal. This trope is about egregious uses of speed typing to control what a computer does. Related to this is the Button Mashing in Hollywood depictions of people playing video games. May be featured in scenes involving Hollywood Hacking. Subtrope of Kinetic Clicking. |
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A skill of Sigma and Neo Saiba in Digimon V-Tamer 01. Izzy does this every time the gang encounters a new monster in Digimon Adventure. | |
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Miles Dyson in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is shown tappity-tappity-tappity-tappity-tappity-tappity-tappity-tappity-tapping on his home workstation's keyboard. On the monitor: a sloooowly rotating wireframe of the robotic arm. | |
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Boris Grishenko, the hacker in GoldenEye, performs a range of computer work with rapid typing, sometimes with one hand and other times having to type even faster due to threats from his boss. | |
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Professional StarCraft players work at incredible levels of "action per minute", each action being an order to a unit, a macro put into action, additional pylons constructed, or similar. The average home player will do about 30 APM. By hammering away at keyboard shortcuts, championship players will do at least 200-300 APM. The all-time record hovers around 800 (held by world-class player Park Sung-Joon). | |
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When Ingrid remotely boots up her robot in the Fillmore! episode "A Cold Day at X", she controls it by rapidly pressing keys. | |
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Parodied in Kingdom Hearts II: when encountering Hollow Bastion's supercomputer, Sora tries to search for information on Kairi. Noticing how Leon seemed to be waggling his fingers above an unresponsive, flat representation of a keyboard, Sora proceeded to bang the keyboard as hard as he can (and then Stitch jumped on Donald's head, and Donald fell on the computer). The MCP from TRON got severely pissed off and converted the gang into data entities inside the computer, kicking off the cast's new adventure. | |
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Strangely, on Lie to Me, whenever someone asks Loker to call up a picture, not only does he never need them to be more specific than "that one thing you showed me the other day", but he never uses a mouse. | |
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Usually averted in lonelygirl15, but Taylor's hacking seems to work this way. | |
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In the Asteroid in Love anime, Mari practices this when producing the club newsletter in the second episode. Justified somehow as she is borrowing Endou's laptop for this purpose, so the time limit is presumably tight. | |
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iCarly. Freddie, the resident "computer genius", does this all the time. Someone hacked the iCarly website? Rapid typing. Need to edit a discriminating photo? Rapid typing. | |
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All computers on Adventures in Odyssey require Rapid-Fire Typing (the ones that aren't run by voice command anyway)—not justified but understandable, given that it's a radio show and a keyboard generates more sound than a mouse. Later episodes use realistic mouse clicks, although they're still a little loud. | |
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Parodied in the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Temporary Insanity." The boys are confused for office temps by apathetic management and put behind a desk. Beavis is put in charge of typing up documents, and Beavis spends his shift constantly clicking away at the keyboard. Except Ax-Crazy, Book Dumb Beavis doesn't actually type words, exactly, so much as he just really loves pressing the buttons, so all he ever types is gibberish. By the end of his shift, he's just mashing the keyboard with his fists like a lunatic, and he winds up shorting out the computer. | |
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Like with The Flash example below, the concept of a memory buffer is lost on writers. In the past, the physical limitations of a typewriter were ignored as well. | |
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This is the way Johnny types in Airplane!. | |
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A time-pressed Our Miss Brooks is at it in "Public Property on Parade". | |
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In The World God Only Knows, Keima Katsuragi has Capturing God Mode, a technique for playing multiple Dating Sims at the same time. The anime depicts this as sitting in front of his multiple-screen setup and rapidly typing... on a spread of console controllers. For a genre of game whose input is mostly "press X to continue". | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Dr. Ritsuko defeats an Angel turned Computer Virus through this method. That same episode, we see a techie Rapid-Fire Typing away, writing huge amounts of code — and then Ritsuko comes over and does the same thing ten times as fast, with one hand. | |
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24 is a particularly egregious example. No one ever seems to use a mouse. Considering that the people actually using the computers—Chloe, for instance—are extraordinarily skilled, this actually isn't too far off. Many experienced techies will prefer a keyboard for some applications because it can be quicker if you're a good typist, and many of the advanced commands are only available via command line. | |
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Battle Programmer Shirase, where Shirase uses this technique for great feats of hackery. He remotely controls his supercomputer to reverse a denial-of-service attack with the one and zero keys on his phone. Causing the victim computer to explode rather violently. He's also able to use six keyboards at the same time, supposedly to elevate his mental state to a thousand times that of a normal person. He's compiling his code so quickly..! Then I shall just have to resort to... DOUBLE COMPILE! |
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The Torchwood team is also prone to this. For example, in "The Stolen Earth" when they need to boost a signal to call the Doctor, everyone instantly goes into rapid-fire typing mode while running around and taking turns on various keyboards. | |
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The end of Chapter 7 in All Mixed Up! has Mariana typing random letters on her keyboard and pressing the "Enter" key, which destroys a cardboard cutout of Oprah that she received from Precinct 13579 as thanks for the whale crackers she had sent the Director earlier. The Author's Note at the bottom states that typing random letters into the keyboard is essentially the command for "destroy". | |
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In Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko does this to hack administrative rights to Justin Hammer's network while the computer is booting up. When Hammer expresses incredulity at this, Vanko responds with... | |
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Scotty in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, who probably has never seen, to say nothing of used, a keyboard before in his life, quickly adapts to one and cranks out the formula to Transparent Aluminum in less than a minute using a computer whose OS has horrendous support for keyboard shortcuts. | |
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In Iron Man: The Animated Series, Tony Stark occasionally typed like this... using only his index fingers. | |
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James Bond: Boris Grishenko, the hacker in GoldenEye, performs a range of computer work with rapid typing, sometimes with one hand and other times having to type even faster due to threats from his boss. Elliot Carver, the evil media baron from Tomorrow Never Dies, writes news stories, controls video conferences and basically runs his entire empire by flailing madly at a small, hand-held computer console. This is one of the few instances where you can actually see words coming up on the screen as Elliot types, though he is still typing far too fast. Could be explained logically, in that Carver's company is also partly an evil parody of Microsoft, meaning he may have his own special "evil villain" control software that interfaces entirely through rapid-fire typing. |
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Rimmer does this on two computers at once in the Red Dwarf episode "Holoship", after undergoing a "mindpatch" to give himself the knowledge of two of the smartest crew members. | |
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Exalted: This is what happens if you use Whirling Brush Method in conjunction with a Magitek typewriter/keyboard. | |
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Stargate: In an episode of Stargate SG-1, Carter, granted Super-Speed, works on a book about wormhole physics she'd wanted to write for a while, but "didn't have time to." Now, she operates so fast that her hands blur over the keyboard and she occasionally has to stop and wait for the keyboard buffer to clear out. Of course, for all we know, she is making typos and fixing them; it's just that she's operating very, very, very fast. Subverted on Stargate Universe, when Rush is forced to work on the Lucian Alliance's Icarus gate program, he taps on the keyboard wildly for a few seconds and says "Alright then, I'm done." He then has to explain that he's kidding and the work will take a long time. |
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In Star Trek: First Contact, in an attempt to stop the Borg from hacking into the Enterprise's computer, Data uses Rapid Fire Typing to improvise a highly complex encryption code on the spot and encrypt all the ship's major systems in a matter of seconds. Data's an android, though, which means his typing speed is limited mostly by how fast his fingers can physically move. Also a subtle Special Effect Failure: you'll see the reflections of the "red alert" flashing lights speed up since they just sped up the film to get the effect. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: Parodied in the Food Fight review. When the Critic re-writes Malcolm and Tamara as stereotypical geniuses, Tamara demonstrates her intelligence by hammering her computer's keyboard with several dramatic flourishes, then (just to drive the silliness home), strums her fingers and knuckles over the keys. | |
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Hollywood typing isn't for Hollywood anymore: in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots cutscenes, despite them being movie quality CGI, and despite having been made by computer people, all typing is of the clackity-clack-clack type. One particular computer has three different keyboards for added virtuoso. Still no spacebar in sight. | |
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Seen in at least one episode of Walker, Texas Ranger, where a hacker is fighting for control of an airplane's functions. Most notable for the episode's climax, where at a command from his boss (with You Have Failed Me undertones) to kill the thrusters, he panics and practically starts hammering the thing. | |
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During Kazuma Kiryu's revelation sequences in Yakuza 3, he types whole blog posts in seconds using T9 on his cellphone. | |
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Done regularly in Quantum Leap. When Al would press one or two buttons on his hand-held device, the device would spit out all kinds of information. To be fair, there's an AI on the other end of the line watching what's happening and deliberately trying to provide helpful data. | |
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In Smallville, Chloe is quite an efficient hacker...she is able to pound her fingers on random keys with such skill! (At some points it's blatantly obvious that she's not typing anything meaningful at all.) | |
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In an episode of Stargate SG-1, Carter, granted Super-Speed, works on a book about wormhole physics she'd wanted to write for a while, but "didn't have time to." Now, she operates so fast that her hands blur over the keyboard and she occasionally has to stop and wait for the keyboard buffer to clear out. Of course, for all we know, she is making typos and fixing them; it's just that she's operating very, very, very fast. | |
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In Weiß Kreuz, Nagi is seen typing this way... with no hands, using telekinesis. | |
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Averted in the first Resident Evil, where the game switches to first-person for a part where you have to enter the password for an Umbrella computer. Jill types at a relatively normal rate, but Chris hunts-and-pecks. | |
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Yuki the data entity humanoid interface from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is shown graduating from waving the mouse around in the air to this trope within the week she learns how to use a laptop computer. At top speed, it's surprising she doesn't fill the keyboard buffer. Unlike other examples, what she does actually justifies her use. Windows are shown rapidly appearing and disappearing as she plays the game from a source code level (when you're just that good, who needs the GUI?). She also manages a method she uses when hacking reality, namely to speak really, really fast. What's spoken is, for bonus marks, SQL queries, fast-forwarded and played backwards. | |
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Nanoha has to do this to just scroll down a text file in the third season of Lyrical Nanoha. Bridge Bunnies do this all the time, of course, especially when agitated... | |
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Parodied in Seinfeld. Kramer appears on an episode of Murphy Brown, hammering keys haphazardly at a ridiculous rate that could never be real typing. | |
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The Young Wizards series: It's mentioned that Tom's typing is like this. | |
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Parodied on The Colbert Report. Similarly, pawing at the keys of a calculator with his whole hand, a gag carried over from Strangers with Candy. | |
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In Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Reed types ridiculously fast on a tablet, and with him being super hyper flexible, his fingers can stretch and go over the other hand's. Johnny Storm finds it gross and amazing at the same time. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Coordinators can do this with enough training. Kira Yamato actually reprograms the Strike Gundam's OS through a ONE-HANDED variant of this trope. Some fans refer to this as "Coordinator Typing", even. | |
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The computers in Star Trek seem to operate via a Windows-type OS of on-screen button pushing when not simply responding to verbal commands. In a subversion, there don't seem to be any keyboards or mouse function at all. Nevertheless, despite thinking that keyboards are "quaint" and not knowing what a mouse is in the Time Travel-themed fourth Star Trek movie, Mr. Scott uses Rapid Fire Typing to the shock of 20th-century native observers. There are Voyager episodes where the "Relativity", a Federation star time ship from the 29th century, is shown, which has a kind of "beefed up" console interface which also featured some kind of fusion out of a (real-life) Trackball and a Holographic Interface. |
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Early in the run of Invincible the title character's father, an expy of Superman whose civilian identity is a novelist, notes that he has a deadline for a book coming up so he'll have to buy several keyboards to burn through over the weekend. | |
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Abby from NCIS is apparently a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. Several PC operating systems support Alt-Tab to switch among open windows, and several applications recognize Ctrl-+ to zoom. In one episode, Abby is opening an email (we see the inbox on screen) and does so by typing a ton of keys. Search boxes are convenient. Seriously. How about the time Abby and McGee type really really fast at the same time on the same keyboard? Or the time Abby needed to employ rapid-fire typing to control a third-person MMORPG? |
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Naturally Superman being a journalist in his civilian identity sometimes does this when nobody is looking. Apparently even as Clark Kent, he's known to be a very fast typist. Like with The Flash example below, the concept of a memory buffer is lost on writers. In the past, the physical limitations of a typewriter were ignored as well. |
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The sequel to The 7th Guest has Samantha Ford, explained in the manual to be a techno-psychic. She plays this trope really straight: Using rapid-fire commands to transmit camera views of the Stauf mansion and hints to Carl's Gamebook, and uses a mouse only in one shot — and rather awkwardly, at that. There's even a point where she seems to be playing the 7th Guest game on one of her three computers, while hammering away at the keyboard and never using the mouse. | |
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Dennis Nedry, in Jurassic Park (1993), is shown typing at a feverish place while he's setting up "White Rabbit Object" to launch. By the time the camera moves so we can see what's on the screen, it only focuses on one button that pops up on the screen: "Execute." | |
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Done for laughs by an airline clerk in Meet the Parents, with the humor coming from the fact that she employs Rapid-Fire Typing for a straight thirty seconds just to confirm Greg's flight. | |
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Otto Malpense in the H.I.V.E. Series does this—starting off at a fairly normal speed, then getting faster and faster until the onlookers are surprised his fingers aren't smoking—when he's restoring HIVEMind, the school's kindly AI. Played considerably more seriously than usual: Otto doesn't know he's doing it. His conscious mind checked out about ten minutes into the process and nobody knows how it's even possible to do it that fast because all the data that he's entering has to have a unique address individually and accurately worked out—any mistakes mean that HIVEMind isn't coming back right, or at all—which involves some extremely complex algorithms, and Otto's getting them all perfect despite not taking any time to work them out. Turns out that Otto's got a Brain/Computer Interface implanted into his actual brain. How? He's a clone grown for the express purpose of housing an insane AI. As you might suspect, none of this bodes well. | |
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Murder, She Wrote: The opening credits sequence includes a shot of Jessica Fletcher typing on her typewriter at breakneck speed, as you'd expect a professional author. We don't see whether Angela Lansbury was actually typing coherent sentences, but it looks realistic. | |
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Done in The Beverly Hillbillies by a con couple ready to scatter the Clampett's money to so many bank accounts when their attempt to get into the family through marriage fails. The guy sits down what looks like a heavy-duty suitcase with a laptop inside and just goes to town on it. A well-placed shotgun blast prevents it from happening. | |
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In Code Geass, Lelouch can be seen operating the systems of the Shinkirou utilizing Rapid Fire Typing across multiple keyboards, sometimes with his arms crossed over each other in what would normally be an extremely uncomfortable typing position. When Rolo attempts to do the same later on, he is surprised at the difficulty and marvels at Lelouch's skill. That's not all, in Shinkirou's first debut, the keyboard doesn't sound clickety, it sounds as if Lelouch is playing a church's organ. And the keyboard looks like a pallet with the keys lighting up when pressed. |
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Spoofed in Bruce Almighty. Bruce, while typing at inhuman speeds, drinks coffee and looks the other way. But in this case, Bruce has God's powers... | |
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In The Guild, Zaboo does this on "Valkyrie"'s keyboard, far too fast to really do anything useful. | |
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Noted in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx with Dr. Catherine Halsey, whose typing speed is specifically called out as 140 words per minute. Apparently 500 years in the future, laptops will not have silent keyboards. Also they will sound like machine gun fire. | |
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Or they're playing Typing of the Dead, which doesn't use the space bar. | |
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Frequently employed by Bryce and Theora on Max Headroom, where all the keyboards are antique typewriters and the monitors never actually display what they type. Amanda Pays took a typing course in order to play Theora Jones (she wasn't that fast...and she wasn't just mashing keys). | |
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In one of the Nick Burns: Your Company's Computer Guy sketches on Saturday Night Live, all the computer usage is done through typing. It gets particularly silly when Nick explains how to do something and the actions are all in terms of what to click on, then he does it by typing. Apparently Nick Burns is quite the command-line purist. | |
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Lucy plays with this: The eponymous character is seen opening thousands of windows in seconds on one laptop, but thanks to her heightened brain accessibility, she can not only pull this off but also tap into a phone and broadcast to a TV miles away simultaneously. This particular scene is somewhat justified, as off to the right on the laptop screen is a green Command Prompt window being filled up alongside the stack of windows. Not so much later when Lucy is on a plane with two laptops and her vision shows something resembling the Matrix on their screens. | |
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Subverted on Stargate Universe, when Rush is forced to work on the Lucian Alliance's Icarus gate program, he taps on the keyboard wildly for a few seconds and says "Alright then, I'm done." He then has to explain that he's kidding and the work will take a long time. | |
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Doctor Who: A Dalek in the eponymous episode hammers through a billion password combinations on a keypad in one second, apparently using directed suction with its sucker hand. Either that or it was putting electrons directly into the chip (making the entry of that many passwords more plausible than with button-clicking). Of course, the real question is why the high-budget, high-security facility doesn't require smartcards in addition to PINs on the doors... with that setup, there would be quadrillions (or more) of potential card/PIN combinations, and even at the CPU's clock speed it would take a significant amount of time (hours or days) to go through them all. "School Reunion" has kids hypnotized into doing this in order to unlock some MacGuffin. Donna accomplishes this in "Journey's End", hand waved by her claiming to be the best temp in London. The Torchwood team is also prone to this. For example, in "The Stolen Earth" when they need to boost a signal to call the Doctor, everyone instantly goes into rapid-fire typing mode while running around and taking turns on various keyboards. The Doctor does this a lot, especially in "The Eleventh Hour", where he establishes his identity by typing the real Fermat's Last Theorem and a proof for faster-than-light travel (with diagrams), and codes a computer virus on a cell phone, in about two minutes. How does he make diagrams by typing really fast? He's coding the diagrams in LaTeX. Or SVG. Absolutely everywhere in "The Bells of Saint John". The Doctor, Clara, and the villainous organization of the week engage in tons and tons of rapid-fire typing in order to Hollywood Hack, Counter-Hack, and Anti-Counter-Reverse-Super-Hack each other. |
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CSI: The lab folks routinely use the keyboard even when operating graphics and sound editing programs. Maybe the "enhance" command requires typing e-n-h-a-n-c-e? | |
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Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh! often utilizes Rapid Fire Typing whenever he's operating or hacking into a computer. Parodied in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: | |
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"The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson, possibly better known as the theme of The News Quiz. According to Anderson, the (heavily modified) typewriter is played by a drummer, because actual typists can't go fast enough. | |
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Criminal Minds: Garcia operates on half a dozen monitors at once, pulling up all manner of information, all by typing. | |
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In TRON: Legacy, though the film does use real and accurate Unix commands in a few scenes, it has also been pointed out (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) that even for Dillinger or Flynn, being able to type that quickly, that accurately on a virtual keyboard is practically a Charles Atlas Superpower. | |
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Kill la Kill has Inumuta often doing this. Since his Goku Uniform is covered in keyboards, this makes some sense. Even if the poses he makes while doing so don't.◊ | |
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In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, with the advent of direct neural interfaces, no one should even need a keyboard. Indeed, the main characters rarely use them. However, the android operators still dutifully punch keys on their consoles very fast. In the 1995 movie, some people have cybernetic hands designed to allow faster typing, a visually cool but creepy and inefficient device that splits one's fingers in two. The manga explains that some people are too paranoid about brainhacking to use a direct brain interface and get the creepy hand operation to enable them to keep up with those who can just plug in directly. The Operator androids are occasionally seen using the "fingers split into rods" method of typing as well when they have a lot on their plate. Incidentally, the reason Section 9 uses androids typing on keyboards for command and control is to prevent hacking attempts from succeeding, since the Operators are completely stand-alone systems. Even then, it's not enough to keep them safe in some higher level situations, so maybe the paranoids have it right... |
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In one episode of Sailor Moon, Ami does this with one hand while eating a dumpling with the other. | |
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A TV show based on Maniac Mansion aired in the early '90s. One of the second season episodes, "Turnernator Too", featured Tina Edison embodying this trope; it was obvious that random keys were being pressed as fast as her fingers could move. | |
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Princess Peach in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door whenever she types a message to e-mail Mario. Although it is a message (presumably she thinks about what to write while completing the Fetch Quest for permission to send it), and can simply type it straight out, she is most definitely capable of more than 300 WPM...more than any actual human typist, even with copied or memorized text. | |
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Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) types this way in a scene from Surrogates, seemingly calling up dozens of files with each stroke. | |
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In Lois & Clark, Superman once speed-tried a bunch of different passwords, whether they're dictionary words or random alphanumerics, until finding the right one. The keyboard was smoking by the end of it. | |
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Lampshaded in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: | |
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A particularly hilarious example shows up in Jumpin' Jack Flash. Terry, who has just been contacted by a spy while putting in some overtime at her work terminal, engages in a friendly chat with the stranger. She rattles off a few seconds of Rapid-Fire Typing and then helpfully narrates her response: "Yo." | |
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Chisame is one of the Negima! Magister Negi Magi world's greatest hackers, to the point that she can keep up with a highly advanced robot at a human level. Her finger taps are sometimes played up for drama. | |
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In the computer virus arc of Adventure Time, Marceline (who is now a computer expert) has to explain to Finn and Jake that "hacking" does not mean "typing random letters as fast as possible". | |
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Stewie edits a music video by typing in Family Guy. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Goku does this using two hands that cross over each other when trying to power an escape pod. Justified, since Goku doesn't know jack about technology and is just randomly mashing buttons as fast as he can in a panicked hope he'll activate the escape pod. He fails. | |
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There are Voyager episodes where the "Relativity", a Federation star time ship from the 29th century, is shown, which has a kind of "beefed up" console interface which also featured some kind of fusion out of a (real-life) Trackball and a Holographic Interface. | |
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Something similar is done in Soul Plane, except that the (elderly) airline clerk isn't actually doing anything—she's playing video games! | |
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Jeremie Belpois in Code Lyoko types like this when anything involves the Supercomputer. It's explained/theorized that the keyboard on the main Supercomputer terminal has two Enter keys. | |
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In Geneshaft, Dolce and her hapless subordinates do this to fix the extremely buggy code of their starship's control system, and virtually go into overdrive mode when battling a computer virus. | |
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Elliot Carver, the evil media baron from Tomorrow Never Dies, writes news stories, controls video conferences and basically runs his entire empire by flailing madly at a small, hand-held computer console. This is one of the few instances where you can actually see words coming up on the screen as Elliot types, though he is still typing far too fast. Could be explained logically, in that Carver's company is also partly an evil parody of Microsoft, meaning he may have his own special "evil villain" control software that interfaces entirely through rapid-fire typing. | |
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Dexter of Dexter's Laboratory can apparently only type with his index fingers (really fast, mind), but that's probably because the keyboards are far too large for his hands... | |
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In the first episode of Nana, Nana Komatsu performs this when sending a text message on a cellphone. | |
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Stanley Jobson in Swordfish. Mostly amazing in his first demonstration: he is ordered to hack into the Department of Defense in 60 seconds while at gunpoint, and receiving oral sex. Amazingly, his typing in between buttons and in between rows means something to the computer he uses. | |
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In Tales of Xillia 2, Rowen is able to dial numbers on the setting's equivalent of a cellphone with comical speed and without even looking. | |
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