KM pauses when distracted for a few moments

[peternlewis]

The issue and solution is answered at length here:

Problems with "Pause until..." Action - trouble detecting key press/mouse click

Pause Until detects state, not events. You are wanting to detect the event of a key press or a mouse click, not detect the state of whether the key is down or the button is pressed. By default, in recent versions of Keyboard Maestro uses a Reduced CPU option, which means the check is happening less frequently which is why you are seeing the issue more often. You could turn off that option, but really that is just making the issue less prevalent. The problem is that the Pause Until only checks…