Hacker Typer

How to use it

1. Click the terminal above (or tap it on a phone to bring up the keyboard).
2. Mash any keys. Every key press types out a few characters of code. Set how many with Speed.
3. Pick a Mode: You type, Auto type, Hack sequence or Hacker desktop.
4. Press Start full screen for the full effect. Press Esc or the small Esc button in the corner to exit.

Type a friend's name in Target name and it shows up in the pop ups and logs, for example "Accessing Mike's laptop...". The name stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere.

All keyboard shortcuts

The number keys work on the top row and on the number pad. Turn off Number keys open pop ups if you want digits to type code instead. On a phone or tablet in full screen, tap a corner three times: top left for granted, top right for denied, bottom left for a download and bottom right for a surprise. Every pop up also has a button under the terminal.

Four modes

• You type. The classic hacker typer. Whatever you press, clean looking code comes out, so you look like you type 200 words a minute.
• Auto type. The code types itself. Best on a phone, a second monitor or a TV in the background of a video.
• Hack sequence. A fake hack plays by itself on a loop. Pick one of six scenarios (below).
• Hacker desktop. A whole wall of hacker screens at once: a code panel, a world map trace, a network map with moving packets, CPU and memory meters, a hex dump, an event log and task progress bars. On a wide screen you see all seven panels; on a phone it shows fewer, larger panels so it stays readable. Keys type into the code panel, and it types by itself when you stop.

Six hack sequence scenarios

• Classic hack. A command, tunnels and proxies, a firewall progress bar, a hex dump, a password cracked letter by letter, ACCESS GRANTED and a download of something very important, like secret cookie recipes.
• Satellite uplink. A dotted world map with a glowing trace that hops between random coordinates while the readout shows latitude, longitude and signal, then TRACE COMPLETE.
• Password cracker. Big character boxes spin through random letters and lock in one by one while an attempts counter races.
• Firewall bypass. Five layered progress bars fall one after another while a grid of ports flips between open, closed and filtered.
• Mainframe. An old green screen terminal with a logon, a menu and a printout of very boring office records.
• Movie montage. Plays every scenario in turn with letterbox bars and big dramatic titles in between, like the hacking scene in an action film.

The text on screen and in the scenarios was written for this page. The code samples do nothing, the coordinates and port numbers are random, and nothing connects to anything.

Code styles, themes and sounds

• Code styles: low level C, Python, JavaScript, assembly, Rust, Go, SQL, Bash shell script, HTML and CSS, Java, or a mix of all of them. Handy if you need a fake coding screen or a fake computer programming screen in a video.
• Themes: green, amber, white, ice blue, cyber blue, red alert, purple neon, retro DOS (light text on blue gray) or any custom color you pick. The Mainframe scenario always uses green.
• Old monitor look: glow and scan lines, on or off.
• Typing sound: off (the default), mechanical clicks or soft taps, made in your browser. With a sound on, pop ups beep too.
• Random events: turn it on and pop ups appear by themselves every 10 to 25 seconds.

Your choices, including the target name, are remembered in this browser only.

Ideas

• Look busy. Leave the Hacker desktop running on a second screen when someone walks past your desk.
• Prank a friend. Put their name in Target name, open full screen on their computer, press 1 as they walk in and say you just got into their laptop. Press 0 for the self destruct countdown if they look worried.
• Videos and school plays. Film the Movie montage or the Satellite uplink for a hacker scene. Green on black with the scan lines reads well on camera; pick a size that fits the shot.
• Parties and escape rooms. Run the Password cracker on a TV as a fake countdown to the next clue.
• Kids. Children love that every key does something. Nothing they press can change anything on the computer.