Higround just copied Wooting.
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Its insane how some 3 random dudes from Netherlands managed to make a startup company and a product thats so far ahead of competition (which are multi billion dollar corporations) that it took over the competitive/esport space by storm
fax. it's respectable.
because they are gamers, they know how things works, and their goal is to actually make something good, not just a random cash grab like most companies these days.
4 lads from Liverpool?
wooting should have applied for a patent...
Their production speed is holding them back which took me ages to get mine, and companies take advantage of this. It will be over for wooting once a big company matches wooting's performance, sadly.
So damn happy with my wooting a year later & they've even improved it in small ways over the year. Seems like everyone is coming up short trying to replicate them.
I just wish it wasn’t the price of all my peripherals combined
@@iDekerwas it always that expensive? With PBTs its 200€ now, and I feel like I remember it being closer to 150€
@@maxzett I’m not sure actually, maybe. I just checked and it’s $420 for me excluding shipping. So like double my peripherals prices lol.
@@iDekerwhat currency? i got my wooting 60he for $187 usd
It cost the same amount as a gpx superlight 2 in my country
if only Wooting would release a TKL version or at least a 75% version, I'd take their entire stock.
Don't lie. You wouldn't actually take their entire stock.
Yep, can't stand the 60%, I need my arrow keys
@@RowOfMushyTiT they will. They're a multi-trillionaire, I know them personally
nar. no one wants that. nothing that takes away precious, precious mouse space
there is a full sized version
The more competition the better. But no one has matched the software support and capabilities of Wootility yet. Which is insane considering Wooting started a couple of years or so ago.
Software wise most keyboards are lacking across the board
wootility web app is really cool, only other company I can think of that does this is Atompalm.
Zero bloat apps like this is surely the future.
@@ギコnice pun
@@haian727 unintentional
wooting is almost 10 years old
crazy to think it took companies this long to realize this, wonder how long it would've taken without wooting
like artisan mousepads, the product is so good that they have no chance but to copy it close to one to one
The first I heard of hall-effect sensors was in response to the stick drift issues of modern game controllers. I wondered if this had anything to do with Wooting using them, or if it was just coincidence.
@@KillerInstinct1 the product is so niche, not good.
@@IT10Tthey're though.
it makes u think what else will come out that was overlooked for years
I think the DrunkDeer A75 is the closest competitor to the Wooting by far. It now has a web browser driver like Wootility, and a Rapid Trigger range of 0.1-3.6mm
I'd still rather just buy Wooting. Drunkdeer is still an inferior product.
agreed, I have one and I love it
@@rustler0880 more dollars and bad availability for maybe 5-10% better performance? Good on dat chief
It says on their webiste 0.4-3.6mm, did they just not update it? Because starting at 0.4mm would be a dealbreaker
@@xblur17 They released a fw update recently, it's still a test fw. It feels quite responsive, I'd love to see him testing it
It's over anakin , i have the high ground.
Love the pun but nah fam 😂
Anakin: You underestimate my power!
except in this scenario anakin wins
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@@abdulmuhaimin5274obi- wan: don't try it
Drunkdeer A75. It's price has gone up a couple of weeks back, but it has magnetic switches and rapid trigger in a 75% form factor. It's fantastic.
You're almost at a point where you can make a legit "has copied wooting" playlist.
wooting will always be the best, just because of the software
Yea, their software is great. Its the first time I actually felt like my keyboard was limitless, and I’ve owned 40% keyboards that use QMK. Technically you can do almost anything to customize a QMK board but the process of changing keybinds was kind of time consuming, and downloading the software in the first place was not straightforward. I think Via/Vial might have solved this user experience problem but I haven’t used that software.
I find it way easier to change settings on my wooting keyboard than even changing the settings on most of my mice.
Please take a look at the Drunkdeer A75. It's another rapid trigger keyboard, but it's 75%, which is a niche that's currently pretty empty.
Have you heard of the drunkdeer a75 keyboard? Its also has magnetic switches, might be good to test it out
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I recently purchased the drunkdeer 75 and would also like to see what you think about it compared to the wooting.
I think Drunk Deer is worth looking at. It was the first Rapid trigger keyboard to come out after Wooting 60HE, but not only that it is within the budget range. Others have compared it to razer and steelseries and most of the time it only lags behind either the razer or steelseries, coming at second after Wooting in terms of mm. I think it’s the only one you’d find interesting. Plus comes in variety
wooting is truly something, i just wish they had %75 or tkl versions and silent switches
0:12 I bet Anakin never heard of it.
Drunk Deer A75 is another alternative Hall Effect KB. A 75% layout w rapid trigger. I would def appreciate an in-depth review. You can buy the complete keyboard or a barebones for even cheaper.
Man Wooting need to release a 75% or TKL already.
good news they are making right now
@@zNexx.have u seen their 80he it’s lowkey creamy
@@justinpraise1 beautiful board can’t wait to try it out
They released it 80he is amazing I have it rn
@@Jukes_ ye it good i got the 60 he :
In mid Septermber there was a sale on the Steelseries Apex Pro TKL for $110, the 2023 edition was $140. Rapid trigger + volume wheel + TKL for $110 is the best bang for the $.
In the chart with keyboard latency would love to see a stat with one of the fastest latency mechanical switch boards. To compare whether the tech is even worth it over a mech switch or if the gains are only valuable if you went with something like the Wooting. If that makes sense?
Otherwise great video! I love Higround and I’m glad to see they got the in depth video from you to test out their product. With some stats out I hope this pushes them to improve in the remaining ways to come ahead or on par with Wooting for performance. Imo they still win in looks/feel/sound/form factor. Just need latency improvement and software
Blah blah blah inferior product 5 years behind in performance on anyone making keyboards.
Corsair has a Magnetic switch keyboard and their keyboard has the option for TWO separate actuations per switch meaning 2 different commands can be assigned to that switch for 2 different tasks AND one of my fav things is that it is the first metal keyboard from Corsair that I know of that doesn't have brushed aluminium which gunks up easily
Hope you do a video on the Razer huntsman v3 pro. It's rolling out to stores now I think. Hoping their optical analog v2 switches are a better implementation of rapid trigger than their last one.
Keychron will be having their own take with their Q1 HE which would be available in December. Would be interested to see your review of it.
this will be what I buy, I have a K8 for nearly 3 years and its been fantastic in daily use.
Noice. I have the q1 v2 keyboard right in front of me (with different switches and keycaps). Has been awesome but I've always wanted to have a 75% version with hall effect switches like the Wooting so I might be upgrading when that comes out :).
i have it and it's honestly great. The double rail design of the switches removes almost any rattle, case is aluminum, which i personally much prefer over plastic and zinc, it has almost any optional you could think of (browser based software, a nice sound, south facing leds (which i prefer), comes with foam and other stuff that's probably listed on the website) the main drawbacks i can think of are little choice when it comes to switches (not compatible with gateron jades but compatible with some other stuff like for example jade mini e-s) and the design is quite simple, which people may or may not like, but considering the target of HE are mainly gamers, i'd expect a lot of people are gonna look for the gamery feel which the Q1HE doesn't really have. For me it's no issue at all tho.
@enderforces7013 thanks for your input!
I think gamers are generally moving away from that gamer aesthetic; so, a non-gamer aesthetic should be a non issue for most gamers.
@ perfect. Then if among the compatible switches there is one you like, you'd probably make an amazing purchase. Mine has gateron auroras (50gf starting force linear) and keycaps are a 30 euro aliexpress dye sub pbt set that i thought looked cool.
Hey Optimum, would like to see you give the DrunkDeer A75 a try as well
Hall Effect keyboard for 90USD (on sale), 0.2 actuation, 0.1 RT, AND 75% layout. Insane value. A true Wooting competitor in the market so far IMO
What does that even mean, "lifts it's own weight"[sic]?
sorry, I meant it can be a really good competitor to Wooting in terms of performance for its price
It’s already been tested and it’s not as good as Wooting, meaning it’s cheaper because it’s still inferior. Get with the programme and stop spreading lies.
@@tyl3rb-fw6ee lmao, bet you didn't even tested one for yourself.
I own both keebs and the Wooting wins in all directions, hands down. But I give credit and props to DrunkDeer too for actually giving the masses a choice (and a budget 75% layout, mind you)
get off your high horse
ever since i opened the wooting box i knew that this is it. unmatched both on the hardware and software as well as on the support side. such a great company if you got a bit of patience
Review the Drunkdeer A75 aswell. Much cheaper and has rapid trigger.
I have the Wooting 2HE and I have to say it's the best keyboard in the market. One thing I complain about it is you can't customize almost any part of the keyboard cuz there are no custom parts for full size keyboards. And Wooting needs to improve the customer service A LOT. I know it's a small company but idk, feels sad to write an email and not being replied for weeks. More than that, the rest is perfect.
How much support do you need for a keyboard though? The discord is very good for fast responses about most things.
Is it the same hw and sw as 60he, the only difference being the size?
@@faritmutugullinsame question
@@faritmutugullinyes, performance is identical
@@RagnaRohDanniz77yes, performance is identical
thanks for reviewing every single wooting competitor, with each and every video i not only appreciate my 60he more and more, but you also prove how far and beyond wooting are compared to... well, everyone on the market, multi-milion dollar companies included
of course it would be better for consumers overall if there was more competition, but on the other hand i can't stop feeling good about making the best choice, even if i couldn't use the product for 3 months after i paid for it (trust me, it's well worth the wait)
honestly i am now considering buying some extras from them even tho i'm not really interested in any, just because i want to support them
mine is coming in the next few days! have you done any customization to it? lube the switches or anything?
@@uncleiroh8665 despite of what everyone is saying this keyboard doesn't really need any modding, also switches and stabs are factory lubed, but since switches are contactless it only really affects the sound
the only thing i really did is replacing keycaps, i used razer phantom upgrade set, because it does visually combine well with the switch-depth-aware backlight effects, but the stock ones are perfectly fine too!
the only thing i would say you may really wanna do is case swap, but honestly i'm personally happy with the stock one, not like it changes the experience a lot, switches are the main event here, so to speak
Thx so mutch for making these videos and especially for the Wooting60HE one.
It was you, that inspired me to buy my first ever 60% or something like that keyboard and then it was the Wooting.
An absolut beast, and like it seems, it still is!
Will there be review of DrunkDeer G65 or A75? I’m currently using Wooting 60he too but just intrigued to know the competitions
The way you finalize the video is such a nice touch, normally other youtubers start spam talking, thanks man!
You should try the drunkdeer a75, it's one of the few keyboard that have rapid trigger but you still didn't try it
Love your Videos, you quickly became my favorite tech youtuber in the last couple of years.
There are also the drunkdeer keyboards, would be great to have a review of those!
Looking forward to you testing out the new implementation on the Huntsman V3 Pro.
Any plans to review Drunkdeer A75?
I have been looking for so long for someone to make an actual review of the Higround Performance Keyboard and no one has so THANK YOU
great high quality vid as always
Dude the video was uploaded 1 minute ago.
@@spectrent it’s a bot
@@lvvett1 Its an optimum video, I already expected it to be good after watching the first few seconds. I will agree that my initial comment seemed ai generated and I apologize for my bot like behavior
@@spectrent After watching the entire video, it was in fact a banger
Excited to see how Keychron's hall effect keyboard will be too. The Q1 HE looks like a good option.
shame it's so ugly looking. if they could've put it in the K6 or K12 maybe but the Q1 is blech
@@retrorevival1 Shame you don't have taste, the Q1 is absoluterly beautiful.
@@noahreineman1479 meh, the offset arrow keys are awkward looking, and the dial in the corner just looks outdated to me. it's just meh.
@@retrorevival1 I prefer the arrow keys expanded out a bit. Having a 75% board with everything in one chunk looks messy to me.
It's nice to see the HE market really starting to fill out. I knew years ago, back when I got my first HE board (back before Wooting had even shipped their first boards to customers) that it would be something to look out for. Of course, back then, the boards had nowhere close to the feature set of what we have today, just a few tenths of a millimeter variable actuation and the promise of additional smoothness from the lack of a contact leaf. But, it showed what might become some cool technology in the future. There was the big optical boom, including Wooting's old boards, and then they dropped their HE implementation, blowing every gaming board out of the water instantly. I've tried a good few of the newer HE boards now, and Wooting still just win from the perspective of customization and feature set. If they made a TKL I would buy it in a heartbeat, as the 60HE is great but not my favorite layout. But, we have some really interesting stuff on the horizon outside of the gaming focused companies, with a big name in the custom world working on an 8000Hz HE PCB and their own version of the Gateron HE switches too. We also have some other companies starting to make HE switches, and quite plenty of 75% HE boards hitting the market, so it looks like HE is here to stay, at least for gaming.
whats HE?
@@EpicBunty hall effect. the whole magnet switch thing
Im on wooting for a month now and i only play cs2. It doesn't make me a better player but man there's a notable sharpness to the counter strafing which really helps me with hitting the first bullet more often. You stop on a dime.
Yea its a comfort thing. I get the same thing from high polling rate mice. Like sure, you can be the best player in the world with almost any mouse, but the added accuracy from latency reduction makes me feel so much more comfortable and in control of the peripheral. It allows my brain to stop compensating for the lag in my gear and to offload that stuff to the subconcious brain where my body can just react before I can think. I think it makes me an objectively better player but its not really something that easily noticeable in the scoreboard. It mostly feels like I make less mechanical mistakes and am less nervous in clutch situations because of that.
This is exactly why I follow the channel. You always ask the questions that I want answered about hardware that comes out. Great vid
I'd love to see Optimum try make his perfect keyboard, just like he did with his mouse. That would be an awsome video/series.
I know you don't typically go the controller angle, but I think you should make a video about the new generation of hall effect controllers that are coming out. I have used some from GameSir for instance, and they are just absolutely next level. It feels like I have another layer of aim assist added when I do 4, 3 linear in Apex. This wasn't possible with my elites with no dead-zone, it flew all over the place. I think a comprehensive review of all of them would be awesome because the controller players are just now starting to figure it out. Also, the old hall effect sensors, such as the kingkong, are not a good comparison. I can give more insight if you need, but this is an important topic, because most people are getting absolutely gouged replacing obsolescent potentiometers, and they are afraid to switch to the hall effect because "the pros haven't start using them yet". Down to help on this topic if you need and plan on making my own video in the future too.
That's really cool! I didn't know the controller market was getting more improvement now too instead of just shape preference and quality of buttons. Would definitely be interested to see what is happening, even if I never buy one.
@@TheDeathClawOmlet There is a difference between the particular type of hal sensors on the market. The one used by Gulikit are supposedly not great. There is another type of sensor, however, that is in the controller I just bought and it is clearly superior. I have the g4 kaleid. It is so obviously better than my prior elite controllers.
the only problem i have with higround is the fact that they are selling rebranded rk61 for triple the price back in the day (idk if they still do now), so it's pretty nice that they've done something different and at a price that is somewhat comparable
@dot8803 oof that highkey sucks
I heard the yuki aim was a tight competitor for the Wooting, you should try it out sometime
Honestly, feels nice knowing Wooting are being one of the real OG's out there. My 60HE is about as lovely as ever, just wished they'd put out a TKL already but I understand the market direction for not doing so.
If they made the software better on the Highground I'd probably take it over the wooting for the extra keys, but if wooting makes a Wooting One HE (their old TKL) then I'd take that. I'm using fullsize rn so the TwoHE would be too big and the 60HE would probably be too small
Edit: Nvm, that upwards movement bug and the slowness is killing it.
Pre-ordered a wooting a few weeks ago so I was scared that this would be a better deal but glad to hear the wooting is still on top for now. Happy to support such a small company as well.
Great video as usual. I would like to see a video of the Viper Huntsman V3 pro that's has just been released, because Razer promise the same actuation pount of wooting but with optical switches that can reduce latency.
Fake announcement. Razer not smart enough to do that
@@tyl3rb-fw6ee WTF? I'm also skeptical about they being better that Wooting. But Razer is not dumb. Maybe Razer has some bad products, but some great too, the best mouse Right now is the viper mini signature edition and the next one is the Viper V2 pro, and is not even my opinion is the data. But at the same time for audio I will never pick Razer, at least for now, in the mainstream brand Hyperx and Corsair do a better job in audio. But is not about a brand or other, is more in lines of products. Being a fan or hater of a brand is equally wrong.
I appreciate the honest review! I hope Higround can turn it around soon with build quality - their collabs are sick.
Either way, it's nice to see Wooting isn't being beat out by large corporations.
great vid as always man, very cool to see you covering this. I recently got the wooting 60he because of your video on it and the other keyboards. keep up the good vids!
It’s over wooting , i have the higround
I just built a custom keyboard with short-travel linear switches and a high actuation point. It's great for both gaming and typing, and I was able to dial it in to be exactly where I wanted it to be.
It feels like this is the best solution if you really care enough about your keyboard. Yes, it took me a whole day to assemble the kit, lube the switches and stabilizers, and get the travel distance correct with the right o-rings, but given how much time I spend using the keyboard, it was totally worth it.
I have a $500 custom, I spent two days working on it (about 4 hours per day). I’ve built like 3 more since. Customs don’t compare to the wooting my man. It’s not the same. A nice custom feels and sounds better. But the wooting maximizes performance by a significant margin. If you play apex and do superglides there’s no better keyboard. Being able to set your jump key at a different actuation than your crouch key allows you to hit the suoerglide almost every single time. It’s a frame dependent movement so you literally have a 3 frame window which means the higher fps you play at the harder it is to hit it.
I literally haven’t touched any of the customs I’ve built since I bought the wooting (for gaming). I’ll use my Tofu build for typing but sometimes I can’t be bothered to switch and just keep the wooting plugged in
@@RiceCubeTech That sounds extremely specific to that game, which I don't play, so I didn't know about that specific use case.
I literally cannot think of any game I play which requires hitting two keys almost simultaneously within a 3-frame window. I'[ll be honest: that sounds like something I would set up a dedicated macro key or mouse button for. You can use the VIA software to set up hardware-level macros that don't require 3rd party software to be running to execute.
lemme guess, it probably costs like 3x the price of a 60he
Nope, about the 10$ less then the 60he
$165 is what was displayed on the website
its around 50 bucks cheaper, but yes 90% of their products are overpriced bullshit
There is also the Drunk Deer A75 and Keychron is coming out with a hall effect Q1
the only two pitfalls of wooting for me is the sound profile and the lack of 75%. if they had other board sizes i would buy in a heartbeat and mod it. hopefully the higround competition pushes them to come out with more sizes
The sound is kind of meh, but I’ve done some mods to it that make it sound OK ish. I ran out of lube after building my last keyboard so I wasn’t able to lube my switches. But I did a coin and tape mod as well as some foam and it sounds alright now.
@@RiceCubeTech to be fair it's probably the only switch with a subpar sound that I could live with, just bc of the functionality
@@yadaran9054 yeah I agree. I was like “I’m never not using a custom” after I built my first one. Then I got a wooting and I was like “…maybe there’s some exceptions😂”
is it possible you can do these tests on the drunkdeer rapid triggers? You are the only channel who is willing to go into extreme depth on the latency of peripherals and I want to know if a wooting 80he would be a better option to buy later down the line.
the more companies copy wooting the more recognition and support wooting deserves for actually innovating the gaming hardware market.
lets hope they start making more high quality peripherals and bring some fresh air into the industry.
Its quite interesting because I feel like Wooting has set a precedent where the community expects them to innovate, and I worry that they don’t really have a clear direction to head in.
Wooting have been working on this one feature for 7 years now, and while its nice to see a company listening to the custom keyboard community. Them releasing aluminum cases, selling a separate PCB version, and talking about how they keep starting and stopping work on a mousepad leads me to think that they don’t have any interesting ideas in the works.
The peripheral industry in general is a pretty hard space to innovate in. Even if you design something better there is no guarantee that customers will adopt it. For example split ortho and 40% keyboards are actually interesting and improve the typing experience, but most people aren’t willing to deal with the learning curve of changing the way they’ve been typing for the last decade.
If wooting don’t have anything innovative in the works, I worry for their future as a company because with all of these companies copying them, I wonder if their days are numbered. Keyboards are just a really hard market for a business to exist in because profit margins are usually really small because each keyswitch is made up of at least 4 separate pieces that has to be hand assembled up to 100 times per keyboard. I think wooting has built in a healthy profit margin but that has made the price of their keyboards more than many customers are willing to pay. Just look at how excited these other commenters are about the cheaper copycat products.
The problem with wooting that someone needs to fix and reviewers aren't warning about is how much side-to-side wobble the lekker switches have. When you get another hall effect board please provide review of the key wobble comparison. It's made worse by the fact that stabilizing spacers aren't compatible with lekker switches so it's very hard or impossible to fix yourself. Both the shaft and the top/bottom halves of the housing connection have significant play resulting in a very loose feel.
Pretty sad when these big companies dont innovate and take a something from a smaller company (which wooting is way bigger than when they started, ik) but they just implement it where its basically just shit but say they they have the feature. Everyone at wooting deserves everything good coming their way
What camera do you use? because its nice.
You should test the new Monsgeek M1 HE
It's a custom keyboard, full aluminium, more than 2kg, with the same magnetic switch technology
Do you have any plan to test the Drunkdear a75? It is in 75% layout and the prices is really attractive. I really want to pick one up but there are no good testing and review yet.
Good more are implementing adjustable switches, wish to see it become standard for keyboards. Especially for custom ones too.
It should be coming to custom keyboards in a couple years. The biggest issues is that the custom keyboard community has been snobs about this technology. All they care about is new colorways and sound. When Wooting came out they basically never talked about them. I think Wooting initially expected to get their sales from the custom keyboard community but for the most part only found success in gaming circles like fortnite.
There is actually a custom keyboard kickstarter being made right now, run by one of the more prominent community members called Keystone. They didn’t receive much support from the custom keyboard community, but they managed to hit their goal and their backers have been giving them nonstop grief ever since. This was a project started before covid and their backers didn’t care that development was delayed by covid, and they don’t seem very forgiving of the fact that its being run by community members that have day jobs.
Anyway, Keystone seems to be entering the final stretch and will likely be shipping keyboards next year. As far as I can tell this team plans to opensource the code and stuff. So this will likely make it a lot easier for custom keyboard designers to adopt adjustable switches. If this becomes popular it will be really good for the custom keyboard community because hall effect switches are naturally hot swappable since they don’t need to be soldered and are just held in by plastic clips. Hopefully there won’t be any issue with the software adjusting towards different hall effect switches made by different keyswitch manufacturers. The good news is that Kailh is the manufacturer of Keystone’s halleffect switch so Kailh will likely be willing to make custom switches for community members that want different bump or click profiles.
I'm still surprised that this channel has too few subs than he deserves. And he is so humble! All good things coming his way is all I wish!
if u live in the uk, the wooting is cheaper because international shipping for highground is an extra 30$ whereas it is only 10$ from wooting (to uk at least) (for the price of a highground kb, You can get a wooting 60 he and its travel case for that price)
To people saying they wish they made / had the TKL version, You can essentially set the 60 up as a TKL, just takes some muscle memorization. There's a setting that allows you to set key presses and holds to different keys. I have my Rshift set to on press is my up arrow and on hold it acts as Rshift, same with the three surrounding keys. So on press they all act as my 4 arrow keys, on hold they're the regular keys. Also holding Ralt is my fn key which then allows me to press F1-F11 and any other key a TKL would have. This function doesn't hiccup either, I have never got an up arrow when trying for rshift and vice versa. There's no way I could go back to a TKL lol the 60 looks too good.
Yes I did the same thing. I was actually shocked with how comfortable it felt to use right shift as an up arrow. I don’t use any of the modifier keys on the rightside of keyboard so I just changed those keys to be fulltime arrow keys.
I also took it a step further and made my 60HE completely custom. I changed my backspace key to shift+backspace (idk if thats the right keybind but its the one where it deletes the whole word) in an effort to speed up my typing. It forces you to build better muscle memory for each word, and is usually faster than backspacing multiple times. Hopefully this will lead to less mistypes. To handle a normal backspace I use Ralt+space which is actually surprisingly comfortable to use.
I also came from a 40% minivan keyboard so, one of my worries with switching to the 60HE was how far away enter and backspace was from the home row. Its actually so comfortable to not have to stretch your pinky to hit backspace and made it almost impossible for me to switch back to a standard layout, but I’ve actually found a nice work around for this problem. I use a top row delete keycap for the key next to the letter P and it feels pretty good even though its slightly taller than the other keys in the row. If anything the extra height helps me distinguish that its the backspace key from feel. Then I use the old backspace key as my windows key, and for the old bracket/forwardslash keys I turned them into media keys, play/pause and mute.
@@WARnTEA damn you took it way further than me lol. Imma have to try that backspace trick, probably my most used key
Can you do a review of the DrunkDeer A75? It has a better implementation of rapid trigger than both the steel series and the razer.
Can you review DrunkDeer Keyboard? It also has rapid trigger.
hall of effect sensors were already prominent in gamepads before keyboards, it's no surprise that they are making their way in. just because wooting was the first to use them for keyboard switches doesn't mean everyone is copying them lol
No idea if it's going to be any good but the flux keyboard is advertising rapid trigger, has a screen behind the entire keyboard, and has modular buttons/knobs. Looks sick and if it works/feels good probably gonna end up buying it just for the cool factor. They have a preorder video on UA-cam and it looks so sick.
That looks really cool, but I guarantee that screen is going to take a toll on latency. As it stands, it's already better to turn off peripheral lighting for better responsiveness.
@@orbis17 A more powerful microprocessor could probably handle it without adding lag. I doubt that it is an issue with the cable.
@@orbis17for the price they're charging ($500 without add-ons) I am hopeful they build in good enough hardware to run it without added latency. Wouldn't be surprised if even built in separate controllers for input and display
Been waiting for a video on the Higround HE board. Was really interested to finally get a 65% HE board, amazed that Wooting still hasn't released one.
The Q1 HE will be aluminium, wireless, and gasket mounted. Which seems like the best out of all the wooting clones
Wireless keyboards are a meme. You have to plug it in anyway to charge it you might as well just keep it plugged in.
I guess if you try hard enough you can find value for a wireless keyboard like using it to control a home theatre system from the couch, or maybe some type of setup where you connect it wirelessly to your iphone/ipad.
Other than that if you are just using it on your desktop don’t even bother with wireless.
@@WARnTEA that's what they said about wireless mice. I use wireless keyboards regularly and barely charge them. It's about battery capacity
Can you please review the drunk deer a75 keyboard? I've seen some people say it's like the wooting but in a 75% layout. Would love to see your review on it.
I cannot understand how come i didn't know this channel all theese years.Sub was almost instant great work mate ,you have a new subscriber you deserve it.
You've probably heard this many times before, but I love your sense of aesthetics. Not just in this video, but in general.
Great video, you taught me something I couldn't describe but definitely felt with previous keyboards. Even with my current (not as much as before) keyboard. I have put that Wooting KB on my list of this falls upgrades. Thanks for this detailed review.
you wont regret it, i guarantee
Imma need a yuki aim and drunkdeer keyboard reviews as well 🙏🏼
Petition for optimum to check out drunk deer g65 or a75 keyboard and do a comparison with wooting
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Well, saying they're just copying is a bit of a misnomer. Hall Effect rapid trigger switches will become the baseline for gaming keyboards. I had intended to buy a Wooting myself, but they were out of stock and I just happened across the Akko MOD007B which is what I use today. I'm not really a keyboard enthusiast, so I didn't really want to tinker with the board after I bought it aside from doing things like swapping keycaps or something along those lines. That made the Akko a really good choice for me since it's a 75% and I didn't really have to do anything to the hardware to ger it to where I felt comfortable using it.
I have the wooting 60 and I love seeing these comparison videos, hope you can get your hands on the yukiaim katana if you can get it.
would love to see a comparison with the current gen of razer with the huntsman v3 pro line up.
I´m close to decide between a wooting 60 he and a razer huntsman v3 pro TKL
Hey love the vids. I'm looking to downsize my pc into a mini itx. Id like to pair a 3090 with an i9 13th gen, however thermals seem to be a big issue with a lot of mini itx cases. What case would you recommend in 2023 as far as thermals. I'm currently debating between the nr200p max and the meshroom s v2. A video for the best mini itx cases in 2023 would be highly appreciated.
Monsgeek and Akko also offers magnetic switch keyboards. You should give it a try.
Love these kinds of videos, hoping redragon comes out with a rapid trigger so that I can get a cheap one lmao.
Also can you make a video doing the same tests on low profile switches? I would really appreciate it
Get drunk deer a75 or g65, there’s even coupons to get like 20$ off
Well I did tag you on Twitter because I wanted to see your thoughts on this keyboard, and this makes it easy to decide. Thank you
I know you said there are essentially too many of these types of keyboards now coming out on the market, but I was wondering if you're willing to review the Keychron Q1 HE. That is supposedly an open source keyboard with hall effect switches and a rapid trigger function (but also uses VIA/QMK, not sure how all of this works together). It's a HE keyboard from one of the bigger keyboard brands at this point and mass produced, so wonder what you think.
Great video, can you test the Boog75 from meletrix to compare to all the HE keebs you tried ?
Sad that I just the Higround keyboard delivered a few days ago. Hopefully it still performs better than a standard keyboard
Gosh I`m so happy I`m getting a Wooting, can`t wait it to be delivered
I was a bit surprised by this review, at first you said it "feels okay in terms of sensitivity" at 2:55 and then you did the solenoid test and it scored the worse of all keyboards in the list. Is this solenoid test even valid then?
So after rewatching : what you mean is the rapid trigger sensitivity feels okay (the range you need to release before you can input a new actuation) but the keyboard has an actuation delay between the hall sensor and the computer?
Why not get a scissor key type keyboard, like laptops have, with a short button height and short travel but also with the nice tactile feedback you get when pressing the button? Makes no sound, feels ten times better and has the advantage of being like a on/off switch, if the button goes down, the signal has been sent. You don't have to beat the keyboard to ensure the clicks.
Loved the objective testing in addition to your normal entertaining, organised presentation. Thanks again!
sometimes rapid trigger can probably get annoying (i wouldnt know im broke) at least for me cause i dont hold the keys down very well while gaming and would end up stopping moving at all randomly
Drunkdeer made a keyboard and i believe its the same as the YukiAim that was released. A review of that would be nice but they are expensive
may as well make this a series at this point lmao, the razer huntsman v3 pro series that just launched is also coming with rapid trigger
I was wondering if you could try the new Razer Huntsman V3? Seems like a big improvement over the old one. It's brand new too
To be fair though, if we are talking copying......wasn't it Cooler Master that first showed us this tech years ago? Way before wooting was even an idea, I saw CoolerMaster showing off this tech in one of their keyboards. Infact it was before SteelSeries even did theirs
They weren’t using hall effect sensors. They were getting analog movement using optical sensors. Wooting’s first analog keyboard also used similar optical switch technology 7years ago when wooting was founded. The problem is that the adjustment range and resolution wasn’t as accurate as hall effect sensors, and somewhat complicated to manufacture as it requires help from factories that specialize in making plastic lens’s since the light is refracted by the switch and back towards the PCB. The lens quality is crucial in determining how far down the switch has been pressed.
I'm a wooting user but the hardware macro functionality is not available. Never imagined such a common feature be missing from an advanced keyboard like this. Currently switching keyboards for different games.
Hi @Optimum, any chance you'd be doing a review of other hall effect keyboards ? Like the Drunkdeer A75 and the updated AKKO Mod007
Hey Optimum are you going to review the Superlight 2 soon?