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[TheBigDog]

In 1984 there was a Olympics Track & Field game released for the Atari 800. You had to waggle the game controller left and right to make your character build energy or run, then hit the fire button to throw/jump. The faster you waggled the better you did. In a similar effort to yours I built a game controller to beat the game. It consisted of a plate, some wire, and alternating contacts made of foil. I had a crank which turned the plate and produced the same electronic effect of waggling the joystick. It was a miserable failure. It seems that there was a maximum speed at which it could get inputs, and I could do better most of the time using the stick the correct way.

If you have some time on your hands try using barcodes and a barcode scanner. They send text that is read to the PC as though it were typed. You can create a barcode of the text string and then scan it repeatedly. If done correctly this may produce a higher rate than just hammering away at the keyboard. There are some keyboards that can be programmed to send a series of characters when you press a control key. You might try one of those and program a key to send a few dozen pairs each time it is pressed.

Have fun!

Bill