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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 up. The clicks are dry and hard, with no echo from the room. It suits people who work better with the sound of someone else working nearby.
Ready to play
Put this under rain or a fire, keep the blend you end up with, and play it through the night with your screen off. The Slo app does that on iOS, Android and Mac.
A working pace, not a demo
The keystrokes come in bursts of several a second with brief gaps between them, which is what a person typing actually sounds like and what separates this from an even, mechanical loop. Each click is short and hard, and nothing rings on after it. The recording is close, and the typist stays in one place in front of you.
Because it's made of separate clicks with gaps between them, the sound rises and falls a lot while it plays. It gives a room some character without filling it.
Keep it in the background
Typing is a strong cue, and it covers almost nothing. Played loud it becomes a rhythm you follow; played quietly it sounds like company. The Deep Work Studio preset keeps typing far below brown noise and ambient focus sound, and that balance is a good place to start 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 hard, with no ring after them. The recording is close, so you hear the keys themselves and not much of the room.
Will typing cover background noise?
No. It's made of separate clicks with gaps, so it adds character without covering anything. Put it over a continuous sound if you need coverage.
What volume works best?
Low. In the Deep Work Studio preset it sits well under the other layers, which keeps it as company instead of a rhythm.