QHuman

Your first macro

Record or build a macro that works a four-pad board in order: click pad 1, click pad 2, type a letter in pad 3, click pad 4. Each pad only unlocks once the one before it is done. This is your first win.

record click in order typing Free 10 min

The first macro is the one that makes QHuman click. You do not need detection or anything clever here: just teach it a short sequence of actions and prove it can repeat them in the right order.

Open the target first. It opens in a new tab. Point QHuman at it and read its score as you go.

Open Target Board

The board is four numbered pads, but only the one lit blue accepts a click. Hit it and it turns green and the next pad lights up. Click any other pad and the board flashes and counts an order error.

Click this next Done Locked, not its turn yet
The whole lab in one picture. Press R on the target to reset the run between attempts.

Build the macro

Before you record, prove the board is really watching. On the Target Board, deliberately click pad 2 before pad 1: Order errors ticks to 1 and the verdict flashes. That is the board scoring order, so the 0 you earn from a clean macro later actually means something. Press R to reset, then build the macro for real.

The QHuman window on a fresh install. This lab touches only Record and Play All, your empty macro list, and Settings in the left rail. Ignore the rest; later labs pick it up one at a time.
  1. Open QHuman and turn on keyboard recording Launch the app. One setting to flip before anything else: out of the box QHuman records the mouse only, and this lab also records a keystroke, so click Settings low in the left rail, go to Recording, and tick Record keyboard. Do it now, not mid-recording: once you press Record the window hides itself and it is too late for this run. Then position the Target Board where you can see it, since you are about to record real clicks against it.
    Settings → Recording, exactly as it ships.
  2. Click Record Hit Record on the toolbar, or press Ctrl+F9. Two things happen at once: the main window hides itself so it stays out of your recording, and this small indicator appears at the top of the screen. It starts at 0 actions and climbs the moment you move the mouse, because QHuman records your mouse path too, not just the clicks. That is what makes playback glide like a hand instead of teleporting. So a count in the hundreds is normal and means it is working. The dead time between pressing Record and your first action gets trimmed out of the macro automatically.
    If the count sits at 0 while you move and click, nothing is being captured.
  3. Click pad 1, then pad 2 Click the blue pad marked 1, then the blue pad marked 2. Each turns green as it accepts your click. Take it slow: order is what matters, not speed.
  4. Type a letter into pad 3 Click pad 3 so it takes focus, then type a letter. One keystroke is enough, and pad 3 turns green as soon as you type. Now the payoff of the step 1 setting: hold the mouse still and watch the indicator as you type. The count ticks up without the mouse moving, and that tick is your keystroke landing in the macro. No tick means Record keyboard is still off, so stop, flip it, and record again.
  5. Click pad 4 Click the last blue pad to finish the sequence. All four pads should now be green and the board's verdict appears.
  6. Click Stop, then Save Click Stop on the floating indicator (or press Ctrl+Alt+S). The main window comes back, now with your whole run sitting in the action list. Click Save (or Ctrl+S) and the macro appears in the left list.
  7. Reset the board and Play All Press R on the Target Board to clear the run, then click Play All (or Ctrl+F10) in QHuman. The window hides again and the indicator comes back in its playback form, this time showing elapsed time. Hands off the mouse now, and watch it walk the pads in order on its own. To bail out at any time, slam your mouse into any screen corner: the fail-safe is on by default, under Settings → Playback.
    Same indicator, playback form. When the run ends the window comes back on its own; Stop is only for cutting a run short.
The shape of what you saved. Five real actions: four clicks (pad 3 gets one to take focus) and the letter, each stored as a press row plus a release row, with runs of Move rows between them. That is why the app's list runs to hundreds of rows and the indicator's count was so high. Your coordinates will differ. The next lab opens this list and edits it.
Checkpoint

After a clean run every pad in the Sequence list is green, Order errors reads 0, and the verdict shows Run complete. 4/4 in order. The board also reports Last click off-centre and Average off-centre, so you can see how tight your clicks landed. If Order errors stays at 0, the macro is behaving. Press R and play it again to be sure.

Make it yours

Record the whole run a second time, but type a different letter into pad 3, then press Play All again. Another clean 4/4 and the record-and-replay loop is yours, not just something you followed once. Editing what you already recorded, no re-recording needed, is the next lab, Edit a macro.

If it went wrong

  • Order errors climbing A click landed on a pad before its turn. Reset with R and re-record, clicking only the blue pad each time.
  • Pad 3 never turns green The keystroke was not captured. Turn on Settings → Recording → Record keyboard and record again so it becomes part of the macro.
  • Playback clicks the wrong spots The board moved or resized since you recorded. Keep the Target Board tab in the same place, press R, and play again.
  • Nothing happens on Play All Check that you saved the macro and that the right one is selected in the left list before pressing Play All.

Stuck?

Compare against the finished macro. Download it, load it via QHuman's Import shared file..., and read its action list next to yours to spot what differs, like the order, the delays, or the settings. It's recorded against this page's layout, so treat it as a reference to compare, not a macro that will replay correctly on your own screen.

Download the solution (.qhz)

Keep going

Want the full detail behind recording and playback? Read the getting started guide. Ready for the next lab? Next up is Hotkeys three ways, where you fire a macro from your own hotkey and feel the difference between the run modes press_release, while_held, and toggle on the Key Lights wall.