Wooting one Analog RGB TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (Pressure Sensitive, Linear Red optical switch, <1ms input, RGB backlighting, Aluminum Chassis, N-key rollover, UK layout) - Black

I've been using the Wooting One for quite a few weeks now. As the other reviews say, this is a premium quality keyboard; the build quality is great - very sturdy and robust. The concept of the thing is great, although there are one or two other competitors on a similar tip. The idea of having analogue control from a keyboard is an absolute winner, but there are a few niggles that prevent me from giving this five stars. I realise that these probably won't affect everyone, but nevertheless - if I've come across them, others will too. As a general caveat, mechanical keyboards are noisy, so I'm not listing this as one of my gripes. I'll concede that I'm not an aficionado on the subject, but even in my limited experience, this one is quite noisy. The metal backplate seems to resonate with a metallic clang on every key press, more so than other mechanical keyboards I've used with entirely plastic construction. Even if you don't type very much, if noise is an issue for you (if you are in an adjacent bedroom, for example), there's a good chance those next door will hear you typing. All that said, what you get for the price is pretty good. The configurable lights are pretty useful, and if only for that, it gets a thumbs up. Mine came with a faulty key, which wasn't immediately apparent. It exacerbated another problem I had (see point 3 below), but the easily changeable spare keys solved this. The devs are friendly and attentive, and if you have an issue, you will get a quick response on their Discord channel.Ok, the gripes:1. No caps lock indicator. Although minor, it's annoying. I use Bitlocker on my boot drive, and with the characters starred out, it can be frustrating.2. Unusual performance in a Bitlocker pre-boot environment. The keyboard will produce double characters while typing the password, meaning you have press Insert to display them, then type extremely slowly, and even then, retype several times. I think the issue is with caps - it only seems to happen after typing upper case characters. With its driver loaded in Windows, this doesn't happen.3. My main issue - GTA V. I bought this keyboard with the specific purpose of using it to play GTA V Online. I watched two videos of the devs configuring it for this game, and noted the fact that you must change profiles between walking and driving a vehicle. Accepting this, I bought the keyboard, but it was only after trying it myself that I ran into problems. GTA V has an issue with mixed input (keyboard/mouse) and xInput devices, meaning that it will only really accept the XBox 360 controller properly, or KB/mouse. When you mix them at the same time, it gets confused, and certain anomalies happen, like firing when you reverse. The Wooting One emulates the controller successfully, but of course, we are dealing with mixed input (the game thinks you are using a controller AND a mouse/KB) and these artifacts occur. This wasn't mentioned in the devs' videos, and while it isn't their fault or their problem, I feel it was a bit of a misrepresentation on their part to show the game working with this device, and not mention this rather significant issue.4. No mixed digital/analogue. Currently, you can have the entire keyboard digital, or the entire keyboard analogue. Functional, but the cherry on the cake would have been the ability to single out certain keys for analogue. Granted, you can easily switch the profile with a single key press, but this isn't the same. Perhaps this feature will come with the version 2.5. Analog isn't really that useful. Most games that benefit from an anlogue game controller are, at least in some respect, action games. Racing, fighting, driving, flying, and in those scenarios, you tend to get excited and adrenalised. The travel on the Wooting's keys is a bit more generous than your standard keyboard, probably, I imagine, to mitigate this issue; when you're hyped up in the middle of race, sensitive and precise downward pressure with your fingertips does not come naturally. In fact, it's the very last thing you are apt to do - at least, I'm apt to do. As a result, I've seen very little difference in performance. Every effort has been made, using the accompanying software, to configure the travel and activation point of the keys. You can configure envelopes for the response of the keys, which is very impressive. But still, after extensive experimentation, it doesn't make that much difference in a high pressure gaming situation. The urge to instinctively mash always wins. I can't help thinking that a pressure sensitive system would have been better, as opposed to the optical system in place, which simply measures the amount of travel in the key. A pressure sensing system, measuring pressure even after the key is at full depression, would accommodate this problem more easily, and seem to suit the purpose better. Pressure sensitive keys have existed with MIDI aftertouch since forever, and work incredibly will for that purpose - surely there is some way of taking on that technology and putting it in a gaming keyboard? Perhaps even some combination of optical and pressure sensing? Probably one for v3!Despite my gripes, this is a promising product, although it still feels very much a prototype.

The best keyboard you can get. It has all the features you need.Interchangeable switches.Fully programmableBuilt really well.Can change actuation point from 1.2mm to 3.6mmRGB

Terrible software it took them almost a year to put back key binding, months of using the keyboard I find The analog key travel is extremely short and useless in most scenarios Specially in gaming the key travel distance is a nightmare,.. overall.. I don’t recommend it!

I think the concept of this keyboard is great. I have returned mine however, because I use some software that relies on the numpad more than I previously realized. Also, the keyboards felt like they wiggle more than they should. They definitely wiggle more than my noname-brand mechanical keyboard.The analog functionality is tricky with every game. In Rocket League it's okay but it felt like it would be impossible to rebuild my muscle memory to not bottom out the keys every time, so I thought it would be useless.In Overwatch you have to make sure you don't set any of your ability keys up as being a different key, because the game does a poor job of switching between keyboard/controller inputs quickly, and therefore sometimes the keybind you set up in Wootility (say, that pressing G will actually press V) won't work. You can simply not do this, but even then, when is there ever a situation in Overwatch when you want to go less than maximum speed? Only one reason is for meme spinning, etc.In Rainbow 6 Siege, it doesn't work at all due to the way the game's input system is built, apparently. Even so, you have a walk button in the game which would probably be more reliable than trying to carefully press a key just hard enough to pass the dead-zone(which there is one, and it feels huge) but not hard enough to go too deep(or in fact, reach the second deadzone area, which there is one, and it feels huge)(it is probably in fact not huge, it just feels like it).Overall I think it's a good concept and it will be worthwhile if you can get the price down and more games to support it. Buy this now if you play car games or stealth games and don't like using a controller. Don't buy it for multiplayer games as you will pretty much never need less-than-maximum input other than to show off how cool your keyboard is. Also out of luck if you're a fan of sturdy and clicky keyboards, no clicks here.

I have been using this keyboard for about a month now and love the way it feels, as it is very comfy and I find it provides ample response time on key presses, the analog functionality works very well, although can be quite laborios to set up on some games, although that is no fault of the keyboard. One downside however is I find the keycaps to limit the rgb glow, which I find quite important but I have purchased a new keycap set for around £15 which should fix this,But overall a good keyboard that I highly recommend

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