Doing it by hand
Type Sorry 1000 Times
A thousand lines typed at a normal pace is somewhere past half an hour, and it is the kind of task where a mistake at line 800 is invisible. Here is what the shortcuts actually save — and where the honest answer is to paste instead.
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The finished block. Select and copy it if you would rather not type 6,000 keystrokes by hand.
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Change the wording, then copy it
Change the wording, the count, the layout or the text style. The output updates as you go, and the copy button always gives you the complete block — all 10,000 lines if that is what you asked for.
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Quick answer
How long does it take to type sorry 1000 times?
Typed straight through, one "sorry" plus a line break is about six keystrokes, so 1,000 lines is roughly 6,000 keystrokes — around 30 to 40 minutes with no breaks and no mistakes. Copy-and-duplicate shortcuts bring that under five minutes. Pasting the finished block takes about ten seconds.
- Manual typing: roughly 30–40 minutes for 1,000 lines.
- Copy-and-duplicate shortcuts: under 5 minutes.
- Pasting the ready-made block: about 10 seconds.
Why almost nobody types a thousand of these
The arithmetic is unforgiving. A hundred lines is a couple of minutes of typing — tedious but finishable. A thousand is half an hour, and half an hour of repeating one word is not a task anyone completes carefully. Errors creep in around the two-hundredth line and stay invisible until the block is sent.
That matters more than it sounds. A typed block with four missing lines still looks like a wall of sorry, and the person receiving it is not going to count. But you would know, and if the point of sending a thousand was to demonstrate effort, an uncounted mistake undercuts the whole gesture.
There is no prize for having typed it. The block reads identically whether it came from a keyboard or a clipboard, and the only difference is thirty minutes and a higher chance of an error.
How long each method actually takes
| Method | Time for 1,000 lines | Error risk | Works on |
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| Typing every line | 30–40 min | High | Anywhere |
| Type once, duplicate the line | Under 5 min | Low | Desktop editors |
| Autocorrect shortcut | Under 2 min | Medium | Phone keyboards |
| Paste the finished block | ≈10 sec | None | Anywhere |
Timings assume a normal typing pace with no interruptions. The error risk column is about undetected mistakes, not typos you would notice — a missing line in the middle of a thousand is the failure mode that matters.
Shortcuts
The methods that actually save time
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Text replacement
On iOS and Android you can bind a short string to "sorry\n". Type four characters, get a full line. This is the fastest genuine typing method, and the only one worth setting up for a single send.
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Duplicate, then select all
In a desktop editor, type one line, then repeatedly copy the whole selection and paste it. The block doubles each time, so you reach 1,024 lines in about ten doublings.
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Column editing
Editors like VS Code and Sublime let you place a cursor on every line at once and type into all of them simultaneously. One keystroke, 1,000 lines — the closest thing to genuine typing at scale.
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Just paste it
The block above is already written into the page as plain text. Selecting and copying it is not cheating; it is the same text you would have produced, without the half hour.
If you are typing it to prove you typed it
The other person cannot tell the difference. A pasted block and a typed block are byte-for-byte identical once sent, and no messaging app records how the text got into the field. If the effort is meant to be part of the message, say so in words instead — that part is visible.
Type sorry 1000 times — questions
About 6,000 — five letters plus a line break per line, so six keystrokes across 1,000 lines. At a normal typing pace that is roughly half an hour of continuous work.
A text-replacement shortcut bound to "sorry" plus a newline. You type a few characters per line instead of six, which cuts the work by more than half. Column editing on a desktop is faster still if you have an editor that supports it.
Yes, but set it up carefully. A replacement string that includes a newline is what makes it useful — without the line break you get one long paragraph instead of 1,000 lines, and you cannot fix that afterwards with autocorrect.
No. The text that arrives is identical either way, and no app records the difference. The only visible signal would be a typing indicator running for half an hour — which is an argument for pasting, not against it.
Skip the typing
The block is already written. Copy it, or rebuild it with different wording.
Related pages
- Type Sorry 100 Times How to type sorry 100 times fast — keyboard shortcuts, autocorrect tricks and copy-and-repeat methods that cut it to under a minute.
- Sorry 1,000 Times Copy and Paste Copy and paste "sorry" 1,000 times — about 6,000 characters, one WhatsApp message. The full wall of sorry, with emoji and numbered versions.
- Sorry 1000 Times Text The sorry 1000 times text: 1,000 plain lines, about 6,000 characters. Copy the whole block, and see which apps take it in a single message.
- How to Copy and Paste Sorry 1,000 Times How to copy and paste sorry 1,000 times without the paste failing. Why manual selection breaks at this size, and the copy and download methods that work.