Rapid-Fire Typing: Difference between revisions

* Seto Kaiba from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' often utilizes Rapid Fire Typing whenever he's operating or hacking into a computer.

** Parodied in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'':

'''Kaiba''': That's because I learned how to [[Hollywood Hacking|hack]] by watching old episodes of ''[[Star Trek]]''! }}

* Yuki the data entity humanoid interface from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' is shown graduating from ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETnhTH7CnA waving the mouse around in the air]'' to this trope within the week she learns how to use a laptop computer. At top speed it's surprising she doesn't fill the keyboard buffer. Unlike other examples, what she does actually justifies her use. Windows are shown rapidly appearing and disappearing as she plays the game from a ''source code'' level (when you're just that good, who needs the GUI?).

== Fan Fic ==

* Lampshaded in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]'':

* Played straight in the Disney [[Sci Fi]] movie ''Earth Star Voyager''. A group of [[Space Cadet|Space Cadets]] control their space cruiser (steering, evading enemy fire, firing, etc.) only through frantic keyboard typing - no mouse, joystick, steering wheel or anything intuitive in the future, apparently...

* In ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2,'' Ivan Vanko does this to hack administrative rights to Justin Hammer's network ''while the computer is booting up.'' When Hammer expresses incredulity at this, Vanko responds with...

-- '''Justin Hammer:''' ''Excuse me?''|'''Ivan Vanko:''' ''Software's shit.''}}

* Done in the film version of ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'' by a con couple ready to scatter the Clampett's money to so many bank accounts when their attempt to get into the family through marriage fails. The guy sits down what looks like a heavy-duty suitcase with a laptop inside and just goes to town on it. A well-placed shotgun blast prevents it from happening.

** To be fair, there's an AI on the other end of the line watching what's happening and deliberately trying to provide helpful data.

* Parodied in a skit on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', although they flat-out revealed that the actor was just typing rapid gibberish.

* Strangely, on ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'', whenever someone asks Loker to call up a picture, not only does he never need them to be more specific than "that one thing you showed me the other day", but he never uses a mouse.

* Subverted on ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', when Rush is forced to work on the {{spoiler|Lucian Alliance's Icarus gate}} program, he taps on the keyboard wildly for a few seconds and says "Alright then, I'm done." He then has to explain that he's kidding and the work will take a long time.