Paint My Keyboard Glossary — Game Terms & Definitions
Dictionary of Paint My Keyboard terms: roller, paints, cash, keyboard expansion, codes, upgrades, and Roblox-specific vocabulary for sooo satisfying! players.
Core Gameplay Terms
Paint My Keyboard! — Incremental Roblox experience by developer sooo satisfying! where players paint keyboard keycaps, earn cash, and upgrade tools. Also shortened PMK by community.
Key / Keycap — Individual keyboard button on your plot. Painting a key triggers a cash payout based on equipped paint and resets after a regrow timer.
Paint Roller — Primary tool that applies color to keys within brush width. Upgraded via speed and width tracks. See paint roller guide.
Paint / Color — Unlockable item defining cash multiplier per key. One active paint at a time. Listed on paints page.
Cash — Soft currency earned by painting. Spent on paints, roller upgrades, and keyboard expansion. Not tradable with players by default.
Keyboard Expansion — Purchase adding rows or columns of keys to your board. Increases lap income potential. See expansion guide.
Progression Terms
Roller Speed — Upgrade reducing time to paint each key and cooldown between rolls. Speed Coil levels I–V.
Roller Width / Brush Width — Upgrade painting multiple adjacent keys per pass. Wide Brush levels I–V.
Paint Tier — Rarity band (Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary) indicating cost and payout scale.
Lap — One full cycle painting every key on current board. Efficiency measured in cash per lap divided by seconds.
ROI — Return on investment; how fast an upgrade pays for itself via extra income.
Softlock — Spending cash on wrong upgrade so progression feels stalled — fix by following build guide.
Roblox & Community Terms
Code / Promo Code — Free text reward from developer redeemed in-game Codes menu. Tracked on codes page.
Gamepass — Robux purchase granting permanent perk if offered in PMK. Verify in official shop UI.
Plot — Personal instance area containing your keyboard and upgrade stations.
Remote — Server communication call; exploited by unauthorized scripts (see scripts risk page).
Executor — External tool injecting Lua into Roblox client; violates Terms of Use.
sooo satisfying! — Roblox creator account behind Paint My Keyboard! and related ASMR-style titles.
Wiki Navigation Terms
Build — Recommended purchase order combining roller and expansion. Hub: /build/.
Items — Stat catalogs for paints and rollers. Hub: /items/.
Tier List — S–D rankings for upgrade value. Page: /tier-list/.
Walkthrough — Phase-based progression guide. Hub: /walkthrough/.
Economy & Session Terms
Income Per Minute (IPM) — Useful self-metric: total cash from a lap divided by lap seconds, times keys painted. Compare before and after upgrades to judge value without guessing.
Exponential Pricing — Each upgrade tier costs more than the last. Late-game prices jump from thousands to millions, which is normal for incremental Roblox titles — plan purchases instead of impulse buying.
Timed Boost — Temporary multiplier from codes or events (example: 2× cash for fifteen minutes). Always paint during the window; menu shopping wastes boost seconds.
Regrow Cycle — Time until painted keys reset to unpainted. Shorter cycles mean more laps per hour if your roller is fast enough to keep up.
HUD — Heads-up display buttons for Codes, palette, shop, and settings overlaid on gameplay. Learn HUD layout once on controls hub so you never hunt menus mid-lap.