# Keyboard impress
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185
**Category:** Arcade
**Created:** [April 4, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185 "2021-04-04T23:46:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@PaulT123](https://forum.makecode.com/u/PaulT123)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/1 "2021-04-04T23:46:48Z")
Does arcade makecode have a block for when a key on the keyboard is pressed? Say the p key. I’m trying to make a game to teach how to type. Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@GameGod](https://forum.makecode.com/u/GameGod)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/2 "2021-04-05T04:40:06Z")
Sadly, this isn’t possible without some high-level stuff. You can’t do it in blocks, and I don’t think you can do it in Python. There is a thread here -
> [@A camera extension?](https://forum.makecode.com/t/a-camera-extension/5950/6):
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> For anyone else that comes across this looking for ways to extend arcade with their own special features / controls / simulators, a lot can be done in the same way as this one using the simmessages – this is where the makecode project says to listen for the messages / how to handle them: and this is where the outer website sends the messages to the frame: and here’s where all the stuff related to this is defined in common packages: Again, worth noting this is simulator only, and only wo…
You can ask @eanders or @jwunderl, they might be able to help you with that. (sorry for the pings)
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### Author:  [@frank\_schmidt](https://forum.makecode.com/u/frank_schmidt)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/3 "2021-04-05T04:40:13Z")
this might be a beginning to understand it ; keyboard Arcade assignments: [https://arcade.makecode.com/reference/controller](https://arcade.makecode.com/reference/controller)
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### Author:  [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/4 "2021-04-05T04:40:33Z")
You can’t directly get keys like that as Arcade is also designed to be compatible with hardware. If you want something like that you would have to go to Scratch 😕
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### Author:  [@Agent\_14](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Agent_14)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/5 "2021-04-05T04:40:42Z")
No @eanders tried but it is impossible. You can use the player two controls. ijkl uo on the keyboard.
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### Author:  [@CleverTiger](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CleverTiger)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/6 "2021-04-09T06:07:47Z")
> [@frank\_schmidt](#):
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> this might be a beginning to understand it ; keyboard Arcade assignments: [https://arcade.makecode.com/reference/controller](https://arcade.makecode.com/reference/controller)
Thanks for sharing such an amazing Blog.
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### Author:  [@brandodon](https://forum.makecode.com/u/brandodon)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/7 "2021-04-09T14:58:45Z")
I thought there was an extension, but you have to have a add-on keyboard for that. But it is there
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### Author:  [@CleverTiger](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CleverTiger)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/keyboard-impress/7185/8 "2021-04-11T03:16:13Z")
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