QWERTET keyboard test

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What chords can your keyboard play?

Thinking about Qwertet? Its Fourths & In-Key chord modes need your keyboard to register several keys at once, and most keyboards handle a good range of them just fine. Push into a few tightly clustered combos, though, and even Apple's Magic Keyboard starts to "ghost" — those keys block each other. For basic playback this rarely matters, but you can find out exactly which chords your keyboard nails here before you buy, to see how far it'll take you into complex, virtuosic playback styles. Connect your hardware keyboard, click this page once, then hold the combos below.

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Chord tests — hold each group together

Hold each group; the badge shows the most keys you got at once and stays put after you let go — green means you held them all, so that chord works. Try T + Y + H: most keyboards, the Magic Keyboard included, can't hold all three even though each pair is fine. Then Copy or Email your results.

If your keyboard ghosts

Unfortunately, if you can't hold these chords, it's a limitation of your keyboard — not something that can be resolved in the app. Apple's Magic Keyboard handles spread-out combos but still ghosts on tight vertical clusters; true N-key rollover is mostly a gaming-mechanical-keyboard feature. What still works on any keyboard: the on-screen touch keys (touch never ghosts), Chord mode, where a full chord comes from a single root key, and any chords your keyboard passed in the test above.