hypertap

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ tap.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. (video games) To employ the hypertapping strategy.
    • 2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee‎[1], page 251‎[2], archived from the original on 6 June 2025:
      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 in a traditional way.
    • 2024 January 2, Kyle Orland, “34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen””, in Ars Technica‎[3]:
      By 2020, Saelee had hypertapped his way to a Level 35 performance, while fellow player EricICX had achieved the first Level 38 performance.
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