making keyboard repeat rate extremely fast

[orchistro]

Hey guys!

I'm wondering if there is any way to make my keyboard repeat rate extremely fast.
I've already tried to adjust slide bars that appear on the keyboard/mouse section in the preference pane. But the maximum speed wasn't enough for me. It's only for people with great patience!

So I tried to tweak system setting by using "defaults" command line utility.
I found out that as I moved slide bars on preference window, InitialKeyRepeat and KeyRepeat values changed accordingly. (( KeyRepeat and InitialKeyRepeat keys are found wheh you type in "defaults read -g"))
I decided to write a new value to those keys :

$ defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' KeyRepeat 1

But that didn't seem to have any effect.
I thought that there must be something more. So I restarted the system.
Unfortunately, after restarting the system, the autorepeat rate was even slower than before.
It is frustrating to be unable to type in repeated characters in a speed of light!
It really bugs me. Sometimes, I get angry because of it!

Is there anyone that knows how to make the repeat rate even faster -- let's say, beyond the preference window's settings?

Thankyou in advance 🙂

I'm on OSX 10.5.5

 

[donga]

why would you want the repeat rate so fast?

the fastest setting already makes my eyes hurt 😱

 

[spektrs]

i also wana to know how i can make it rate faster !!!

 

[lordthistle]

why would you want the repeat rate so fast?
the fastest setting already makes my eyes hurt 😱

Then we understand why you don't want it faster (even if - may be - we aren't that interested in being acknowledge of that).

thistle

 

[IvanQ]

solution

It turns out that you have to specify the type of value (integer in this case), otherwise the number gets written as a string value and is ignored.

defaults write "Apple Global Domain" KeyRepeat -int 0