# Typing Animation — primitive for text reveals (react)

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Words type out letter by letter behind a blinking cursor, get deleted, and the next word types in

- **Install:** `npx shadcn@latest add @magicui/typing-animation`
- **Registry:** magic-ui · **Framework:** react · **License:** MIT
- **Docs and preview:** https://magicui.design/docs/components/typing-animation
- **Source:** https://github.com/magicuidesign/magicui/blob/main/apps/www/registry/magicui/typing-animation.tsx
- **Example:** https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-magic-ui-typing-animation.mp4?v=10143 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Magic UI))
- **Time:** Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
- **Runs:** local render, free
- **Aspect:** any

## Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Typing Animation from Magic UI (https://magicui.design/docs/components/typing-animation, MIT) for a typed headline, a search bar or a chat prompt. It types and deletes with setTimeout and blinks the cursor with a CSS keyframe, so it drifts in a render. Make it a pure function of time: chars = floor((t - start) * 1000 / typeSpeed) while typing, count back with deleteSpeed after pauseDelay, step through words, and show the cursor when floor(t * 2) is even. Take t from frame / fps in Remotion or from the paused timeline in HyperFrames. Set words (or children), typeSpeed, deleteSpeed, pauseDelay, loop, cursorStyle and the font.

## Used in

- [Product launch film](https://skills.varg.ai/video/product-launch.md)
- [Notes-app ad](https://skills.varg.ai/video/notes-ad.md)
- [Text-message story](https://skills.varg.ai/video/chat-story.md)
- [CLI & terminal demo](https://skills.varg.ai/video/terminal-demo.md)
- [AI chat & agent demo](https://skills.varg.ai/video/ai-demo.md)
- [Data story](https://skills.varg.ai/video/data-story.md)
- [Math animation](https://skills.varg.ai/video/math-animation.md)
- [Whiteboard & hand-drawn](https://skills.varg.ai/video/whiteboard.md)

## More text reveals

- [Blur In](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.blur-in.md) — `npx hyperframes add blur-in`
- [Blur Out Up](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.blur-out-up.md) — `npx hyperframes add blur-out-up`
- [Bottom Up Letters](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.bottom-up-letters.md) — `npx hyperframes add bottom-up-letters`
- [Caret Swap](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caret-swap.md) — `npx hyperframes add caret-swap`
- [Focus Blur Resolve](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.focus-blur-resolve.md) — `npx hyperframes add focus-blur-resolve`
- [Line-by-Line Slide](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.line-by-line-slide.md) — `npx hyperframes add line-by-line-slide`