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Rhythmic Typing
Monospace text is typed character by character with a cursor at uneven human speed, then deleted and retyped.
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Why it works
The screen holds only a cursor and one line of small text, with a great deal of empty space. Typing pauses 0.3–0.5s between words like real keystrokes, and deleting is twice as fast as typing, which splits the product name and the launch status into two beats. The font is the same monospace used for the numbered labels in the product UI.
Spec
- Timing
- Film 11s: first line typed 0.17–4.51s (typo 'bakcoff' 1.2–1.57s, five backspaces 2.1–2.27s, retype 2.47–2.77s); hold 0.7s; delete 32 characters 5.21–5.9s; check mark and '214 tests passing' 6.47–7.77s; hold 0.4s; delete 8.17–8.43s; wordmark typed 8.63–9.0s; green cursor and tagline 9.43s; hold to 11s
- Easing
- No tweening: each character is an
opacityhard set (tl.set) on a fixed 33.6px monospace grid; the cursor is solid on every keystroke, then 0.5s on / 0.5s off in idle gaps; slow driftscale1→1.04linear - Camera
- Fixed; the line is left-anchored at x 240px and grows to the right; the terminal line drifts
scale1→1.04 over 8.53s and the wordmark 1→1.035 over 2.47s (linear) - Subject
- Typing gaps 0.04–0.11s (about 9–25 characters per second) with 0.3–0.5s pauses between words; backspace 0.04s per character for the typo, 0.022s for the whole line, 0.015s for the status line; a solid white block cursor (33.6×66px) follows the end of the text; a 15-name feature rail at 13% opacity scrolls up 380px behind the line
- Sync
- A muted label 'TALON 2.4 / AGENT' (28px) appears at 0.15s and clears at 8.15s; the rail fades in at 0.9s and out at 8.05s; at 9.43s the cursor turns green
#3ddc97on the same frame the tagline appears - Style
- Near-black
#09090cbackground; JetBrains Mono 56px (5.2% of frame height) in#f2f2f4, prompt prefix in muted#70707c, check mark in#3ddc97; wordmark 150px weight 500; soft vignette
Prompt
Build a terminal title card called Rhythmic Typing. Near-black background (#09090c) and one line of JetBrains Mono at 56px with a solid white block cursor following the end. Type '> add backoff to webhook retries' character by character with uneven gaps of 0.04 to 0.11s and 0.3 to 0.5s pauses between words, including a typo ('bakcoff') that you fix with five backspaces at 0.04s each. Hold 0.7s, delete the whole line at 0.022s per character, wait 0.5s, then type a green check mark and '214 tests passing', hold 0.4s, delete at 0.015s per character, and type the wordmark at 150px. The cursor is solid on every keystroke and blinks 0.5s on and 0.5s off during idle gaps. Characters are hard sets with no fade. Behind the line, a list of 15 feature names at 13% opacity scrolls up 380px, and at the end the cursor turns green as a tagline appears. The whole piece runs 11 seconds with a slow scale drift of 1 to 1.04.
People describe it as
- Typed out one character at a time like a terminal
- Typed, deleted, then a new line typed
- The cursor blinks and the typing speed keeps changing
Often confused with
- Word-by-Word HighlightWord-by-Word Highlight brightens words and never deletes; Rhythmic Typing appends characters and has a cursor and delete-and-retype.
- Prompt CarouselPrompt Carousel happens inside an input box with several prompts scrolling vertically; Rhythmic Typing is a single line of text.
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