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An evening of keyboard sounds
These keyboard sounds bring you to a small home office on a winter evening, and you can play them free in your browser. The window is dark, and the lamp makes a warm circle on the desk. The computer hums quietly, and the room waits.
You start on the laptop and tap out a steady run of soft, flat keys. Then you pull the clicky mechanical keyboard closer, and every word comes out in crisp clacks with a deep space bar. Some lines come slowly, a few words at a time, before you press enter.
A long burst of typing races ahead and stops all at once, like a thought that has just landed. The mouse clicks, the wheel scrolls, and a cup settles onto its saucer. Between the runs of keys, the quiet room feels calm, and so do you.
This page mixes 4 different keyboard sounds. For the crisp clacks alone, choose Mechanical keys only, or pick Soft laptop keys for gentle tapping.
What you hear in these keyboard sounds
- Quiet room: A calm home office after dark, where only a computer hums faintly. Plays all the time.
- Typing on a laptop: Quick typing on a laptop close by, soft and flat taps in a steady run. Plays at random moments, about 4 times every 10 minutes.
- Clicky mechanical keyboard: Fast typing on a mechanical keyboard on a wooden desk, with crisp clicks and a deeper space bar. Plays at random moments, about 4 times every 10 minutes.
- Slow typing with pauses: Slow, careful typing, a few words at a time, then a tap on the space bar or the enter key. Plays at random moments, about 4 times every 10 minutes.
- Burst of typing: A long, fast run of light plastic clicks on an office keyboard that suddenly stops. Plays at random moments, about 4 times every 10 minutes.
- Mouse clicks: A few small clicks of a mouse and the soft turn of its scroll wheel. Plays at random moments, about 4 times every 10 minutes.
- Cup on a saucer: Now and then, a cup comes down on its saucer next to the keyboard with a soft clink. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
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