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Keyboard Typing
Keyboard Typing is someone working at a realistic pace — a run of keystrokes several a second, broken by short pauses, recorded close and centred. The clicks are broadband and dry, with no room reverb. It suits people who work better with the sound of someone else working nearby.
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Stack this under rain or a fire, keep the blend, and play it with your screen off. Slo, on iOS, Android and Mac.
A working pace, not a demo
The keystrokes come in bursts at several a second with brief gaps between them, which is what a person typing actually sounds like and what separates this from a metronomic loop. Each click is broadband and short, with energy spread from the low mids to the top of the range and no resonant tail. The recording is close and effectively centred, so the typist sits in one place in front of you.
Because the sound is made of discrete events rather than a continuous bed, the level swings a great deal across the loop. It decorates a room; it does not fill one.
Keep it in the background
Typing is a strong cue and a weak masker. Played loud it becomes a rhythm you follow; played quietly it reads as company. The curated Deep Work Studio preset makes the point by setting typing to just nine percent under brown noise and ambient focus sound — that ratio is a good starting point if you build your own.
Related textures worth hearing are the old clock for a slower mechanical pulse and old vinyl record crackle for a quiet analogue room, both on the sound library index.
Frequently asked questions
How fast is the typing?
It comes in bursts of several keystrokes a second with short pauses, matching a realistic working pace rather than a constant rhythm.
Is it a mechanical keyboard?
The clicks are dry, short, and broadband with no resonant tail. The recording is close, so you hear the key impacts rather than the room.
Will typing mask background noise?
No. It is made of discrete events with gaps, so it decorates a room rather than covering it. Layer it over a continuous sound if you need coverage.
What volume works best?
Low. In the Deep Work Studio preset it sits at nine percent under other layers, which keeps it as a cue rather than a rhythm.