Drill all 88 until you don't have to think about them.
reveal a property, ride the playhead, ease the motion
Verified default shortcuts for the After Effects CC 2024/2025 desktop app on both Mac and Windows; generic OS chords (undo, save, copy, paste, redo) are excluded, and a handful of preview/marker moves need a physical numeric keypad to fire.
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Every deck is graded 1 to 5: level 1 is the reflex core, the top level is where the specialists live. One move from each, so you can see how far it goes.
Reveal a layer's Position property in the timeline
Position is the property you touch most; one key beats twirling open the layer.
…and 6 more at this level
Reveal a layer's Anchor Point property
The pivot everything rotates and scales around, hidden until you ask for it.
…and 17 more at this level
Reveal a mask's Mask Path property
Jumps straight to the shape data when a roto or matte needs tweaking.
…and 28 more at this level
Reveal an audio layer's Audio Levels
The only way to see and keyframe volume without digging through groups.
…and 18 more at this level
Reveal expressions on selected layers
Isolates just the expression-driven properties when something's misbehaving.
…and 14 more at this level
How graduation works. Drill until every move in the deck holds at ≥95% first-try, under 800ms median, across two separate days. Then the deck is done — and you get a certificate stating exactly that, plus a LinkedIn credential in one click.