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Look, I'm a professional typist who's so familiar with a keyboard that I can write a thousand words in under an hour and never once look down at the keys I'm tapping away at. And even I'm not a fast-enough typists that I'm outpacing the standard 1,000Hz keyboard polling rate.
Huntsman V2 Tenkeyless Optical Gaming Keyboard - Razer Huntsman V2 Tenkeyless
We cut to a metal sphere rolling along the keyboard’s padded wrist rest, highlighting the cushion’s plush texture. Text appears: Extra plush comfort, DESCANSO ERGONÔMICO PARA OSPULSOS These wires have been on Razer’s optical switches since the beginning, so to make sure I wasn’t going crazy, I put the V2 side by side with the Huntsman Tournament Edition with Gen 1 switches and the Huntsman V2 Analog. Both of the other keyboards have a similar rattle, but it’s masked by the added noise of bottoming out the key. You can barely hear it in normal use. On the Huntsman V2, you hear it with every keystroke. Razer claims its manufacturing methods allow for the “thinnest font possible on a doubleshot PBT keycap.” There’s light bleed in between the keys and a lot of light reflecting on the button of the FN row particularly at max brightness. But you can curb this by reducing RGB brightness. Analog Gaming ExperienceThe camera shifts down to a full shot of the Razer Huntsman V2 Tenkeyless keyboard, which has a noticeably more compact form factor, but also has Razer Chroma RGB lighting and an ergonomic wrist rest. The early version of the software I used had an odd glitch that would occasionally detect a second keyboard when none was connected
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Premium design touches come in the form of an aluminum top plate sitting atop the plastic bottom and doubleshot PBT keycaps that look as good as they feel. If you look very closely, there’s a subtle finish to the top plate that provides a mild shimmer that matches the effect brought on by the keycaps’ visible texture. The keyboard’s overall finish is clean but not fingerprint-proof. This has a few unique benefits. The first is, of course, analog control. Press the key lightly, your character walks, a little harder and they jog, and harder still, they run. A car in Grand Theft Auto can cruise at half-press and go full-bore the rest of the way down. If you’re a fan of racing or stealth games, you probably already play with a controller for the more nuanced control. The Huntsman offers a similar ability, while also being able to aim with your mouse and have the rest of the keyboard at your fingertips. Taken as a whole, however, the Huntsman V2 Analog is an exceptionally good gaming keyboard. The key switches feel smooth and responsive, and the analog functionality doesn't impact how the keys actually feel at all. The added resistance does, however, and I would consider these some of the best feeling keys I’ve ever used in a gaming keyboard. The extra key weight also helps when learning how to use its analog functions. The palm rest has also been upgraded from last generation. It now features edge-to-edge padding, saving your wrists from hard plastic bezels. It turns out to be a mixed bag thanks to weak magnets that hold it in place on the edge of the keyboard. Move the V2 even a little bit and the magnets separate, leaving you wishing for something more stable.Don't believe me? Let's do the math: The world-record for words per minute is 216 (set in 1946 by Stella Pajunas on an IBM electric typewriter), which translates to about 54,000 keystrokes an hour, 900 keystrokes a minute, or 15 keystrokes a second. The Huntsman V2 Analog has a fake leather wrist rest that’s also RGB-ready. To set it aglow, all you have to do is plug in the keyboard and magnetically attach the wrist rest to the keyboard. It’ll metallically snap on securely, and thankfully, doesn’t require plugging in an extra cable to light up (like the Huntsman Elite does).
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A big part of the cost is the analog switches. These are immediately useful in letting you set actuation points, allowing for a more customized experience that may aid in productivity. But you’ll be limited to PC games that take both keyboard / mouse and controller input, making this investment a bit harder. You can turn off or change RGB brightness without software, but to toggle presets or make your own effects, you'll need Synapse. If you open Synapse’s Chroma Studio add-in, you get a complex UI that lets you make advanced per-key RGB effects after you get the hang of it.According to Razer, unlike with its 8,000 Hz mouse, there are no PC spec requirements or recommendations for using the Huntsman V2’s max polling rate. “The number of mouse inputs for 8K are much more demanding than that of a keyboard, given that a mouse needs to constantly give information about the location of the mouse and a keyboard is either pressed or not pressed. Because of this difference, there are no usage or power consumption differences between the 8K {polling rate] in the Huntsman V2 compared with other optical keyboards,” a spokesperson told Tom’s Hardware.
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