# Detect KeyPress Time?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-keypress-time/55900>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 28, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-keypress-time/55900 "2004-06-28T21:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voursez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@Voursez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voursez)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-keypress-time/55900/1 "2004-06-28T21:53:04Z")

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Well, im looking for a way to detect how long a key is being pressed. Like, if i hold down the space bar, it’ll start counting, and when i release it, it will stop and tell (maybe not tell, but at least know) how long space was pressed. I really dont ahve any idead how to do this, so i hoped you could help a bit.

Thanks in advance