# Keyboard input delay

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyboard-input-delay/320747>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 1, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyboard-input-delay/320747 "2011-04-01T01:16:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![elusive\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@elusive\_elf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elusive_elf)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyboard-input-delay/320747/1 "2011-04-01T01:16:16Z")

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Hi Guys,

I’m a noob at silverlight, and so I found a nice little walkthrough of how to make a block move around a screen.

I got the block to move, but the right a left buttons take a decent second before they respond, yet the up and down keys are fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks