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hypertap

hypertap verb: to use voluntary muscle tremors to rapidly press and depress a button.

Verb

hypertap (third-person singular simple present hypertaps, present participle hypertapping, simple past and past participle hypertapped)

  1. (intransitive) To use voluntary muscle tremors to rapidly press and depress a button.
    • It may be that the hypertapping style of tetris play is the only way in the long run to max this out so it may require thor or dan to do it...2011 April 10, Ben Mullen, “Re: Snes tetris/dr.mario help”, in Twin Galaxies
    • Joseph Saelee, the first hypertapper to win the championship, holds the controller against his leg and primarily uses his right thumb to hypertap and his middle finger to rotate the pieces, meaning his hand rests above the rectangular controller more like he's typing on a keyboard than holding it...2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, page 251, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025

Forms of hypertap

third-person singular presenthypertaps
present participlehypertapping
past participlehypertapped
pasthypertapped

Origin of hypertap

From hyper- + tap. First attested in 2010, but in common usage only as of 2018. Coined by adult Tetris players to describe a technique used by Thor Aackerlund in a 1990 tournament.

Questions about hypertap

What does hypertap mean?
Hypertap means to use voluntary muscle tremors to rapidly press and depress a button.
What part of speech is hypertap?
Hypertap is a verb.
What is the past tense of hypertap?
The past tense of hypertap is hypertapped.

Words near hypertap in the dictionary

  1. hypersynonymy
  2. hypertalented
  3. hypertalkative
  4. hypertalkativeness
  5. hypertalkativity
  6. hypertap
  7. hypertapped
  8. hypertapper
  9. hypertappers
  10. hypertapping
  11. hypertaps

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