Tell you what kind of keyboard is the game keyboard

The word "game keyboard" is familiar to many gamers who love games. As the name suggests, the game keyboard is a keyboard product designed for the specific use of gamers. However, in recent years, various grotesque shapes have appeared on the market, and various keyboards have been swayed by the "game keyboard". A normal keyboard that sells for 30 yuan normally, the manufacturer changed the color of the four keys of the WASD, and added a few LED lights to become a "professional gaming keyboard" for hundreds or even hundreds of dollars. As some of the gamers who are getting started, they often don’t recognize the tricks, so they listen to the store’s rumors.

So what are the essential elements of a qualified game keyboard? How do we choose the right game keyboard? Let me talk about the game keyboard in detail today.

1 appearance

The appearance aspect is very important to everyone. Don't believe that the better the things you use, the more mediocre the appearance. Now is the 21st century. The combination of appearance and practicality is the way out. Of course, the appearance is not equal to the quirky shape and the matching color. Generally speaking, the excellent game keyboard is more ergonomically designed in terms of styling. How to make the user get the most natural and comfortable experience in use is the most successful appearance of the keyboard. On the other hand, many so-called "game keyboards" are now pursuing alternatives in terms of styling. They don't care about how consumers feel when they use their products. Such long-term use of the keyboard can cause fatigue and affect the player's use. Feel.

Various shapes of game keyboards on the Internet

2-key layout

First of all, as a player, you must understand what type of main game you are. The same as the game keyboard, the difference between the game keyboard corresponding to the traditional game and the corresponding MMO game is still very large. Before a friend paid a lot of money to buy a well-known brand of thousands of game keyboard, back to the small series I spit, saying that such a expensive game keyboard is not as good as the ordinary tens of dollars of keyboard, the result went to his home Look, he bought an MMO game artifact, and his own game is a traditional game type such as CF, which has to be used. Because different game types are not only used in keyboard styling, the difference in button arrangement is also very big. Traditional games should try to choose the standard cloth key form, and online game players should consider some function keys. Gaming keyboard. This is also the difference between the game keyboard and the ordinary keyboard, the right one can reflect the advantages of the game keyboard, otherwise it will only cost money.

3 feels

First of all, the ordinary keyboard. The main function of the ordinary keyboard is typing input, because it is necessary to take into account the user's long-term work, so the button feel is almost soft, so it is not easy to fatigue. On the other hand, the game keyboard basically does not have such a long time of work, so this aspect is more focused on performance. As a qualified game keyboard, the first thing to do in the rebound of the button must be fast enough, the typing of the muddy water can not meet the requirements of the game, and there are strict requirements on the keystroke, which even extends to each type of game. In the FPS game, for example, the triggering of the button must be quite fast, because this kind of game is more about the instantaneous operation response. If the button has a little delay in triggering and responding, it will make a successful situation. For RTS In other words, the required keystrokes can't be too long, because in the case of multi-unit operation, the player needs to move multiple button operations in a short time. If the keystroke is too long, the operation rhythm will be affected, which is not allowed. Therefore, there is a significant difference between the game keyboard and the normal keyboard in terms of key stroke and trigger time.

The arrangement of the keys of the game keyboard is also very particular

4 cap material

The keycap is a very important part of the keyboard and is often overlooked by the player. The key cap determines the height and depth of the button for a keyboard, as well as the feel and so on. Ordinary keyboards generally use only ordinary engineering plastics, the material is not durable, and there will be problems such as oiling in a short time. I believe that many players who have used ordinary keyboards to play games know that some commonly used keys are in a short time. It will become like a slippery oil, which is a big difference between a normal keyboard and a gaming keyboard. The key caps of the game keyboard are generally U-shaped design, so that the fingertips and the keys can fully fit the fingers when touched, thereby achieving a full-feeling touch, which can enhance the feel to a certain extent. According to Cherry, the world famous mechanical keyboard manufacturer, the slight differences in the index finger, middle finger, ring finger and tail finger of human beings should be reflected in the corresponding keycap concavity. This is also the unique design of the gaming keyboard.

The material of the key cap determines the pros and cons of the feel

In terms of the key cap material, PBT and POM are both very good materials. There is no need to entangle which one is better in the slight difference in feel, because the industry has no final opinion on which material can replace each other. However, in terms of cost, the POM is slightly higher, and the feel of the keycap is also determined to a certain extent depending on the surface coating of the material or the matte process. With the two-color molding process, it can have a longer life than the laser polishing, laser filler, and mimeographing of Shenma. In this case, the cost is relatively high, which is why the gaming keyboard will be more expensive.

5 qualitative

The game keyboard is also a lot stronger than the ordinary keyboard in terms of keyboard stability. Because the game is too tight, the player often has a relatively large force. If the keyboard is too light, it will be easy to shift and cause output errors. Therefore, the game keyboard has been weighted inside the keyboard, and even some keyboards have been anti-slip at the bottom. This allows the gaming keyboard to firmly grasp the surface of the platform during use, increasing operational stability.

A qualified game keyboard has a steel plate weight at the bottom.

6 exhibition function

Nowadays, most game keyboards are equipped with supporting driver software and some other program software. Among them, there are some manufacturers who sell dog meat. The so-called supporting software only adjusts the brightness of the backlight and other chicken ribs. These are some tricks. A qualified game keyboard will inevitably rely on the corresponding supporting software to achieve some core functions. (Now there are some products that have passed the internal chip to adjust the function) such as macro setting, mask setting and so on. These features make it easy to repeat some of the games, as for normal keyboards.

to sum up:

Today, we have compiled the conditions for these game keyboards. Everyone must polish their eyes when choosing a game keyboard. A real gaming keyboard doesn't have to be weird and gorgeous. Whether a game keyboard can be called a game keyboard, or have to refer to the above points to personally experience the conclusion.