QuackType 嘎嘎打字鸭

A small duck. It lives in the corner of your screen. It sits just above your taskbar on a fully transparent background. With every key you press, it claps a wing and you hear one clean mechanical-keyboard click. Type slowly and it gives a small clap. Type at a steady pace and it works along with you. Type fast and it slams. After a long, fast burst it looks visibly worn out for a while — and a little icon over its head means it has something to say about that.

About itself, not about you."I'm a duck. I clap when keys go down. What the keys were is not my department."Pick your animalThe duck is the star, but ten more live in the same panel: cat, shiba, cow, pig, sheep, rabbit, squirrel, goldfish, slime and capybara. They are not reskins. Each one has its own lines, its own call and its own signature move — the cat's slow blink, the cow still chewing, the rabbit's ears folding flat — and the whole interface takes on that animal's colours.

Four art styles — and every animal has all four: pixel, geometric, doodle and paper cut-out. Want a mint duck or a pink shiba? Custom colour skins are a small text file away. It talks in four languagesEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.…