HACKER Q&A
📣 ggerganov

Increase Key Repeat rate on Mac OS beyond normal limits


Hey, I thought about asking here in case someone knows some hacky way to go beyond the Key Repeat limit of the keyboard on Mac OS.

I already know about the command "defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 1" but it is still not fast enough. Any ideas or suggestions?

For a video demonstration of the question check the videos in these 2 tweets:

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1551619285943975937

  👤 Cyberdog Accepted Answer ✓
This feels an awful lot like an XY problem, so forgive me for asking this, but for what purpose do you need the key repeat rate to be faster than the maximum?

Is it just a matter of wanting the speeds in macOS and Ubuntu to match up?