

We’ve picked keyboards that are widely available, it doesn’t help if we choose keyboards from limited run group buys or drops. Here are the high-level things we look out for in a gaming keyboard.īased on the above factors, price and availability, we make our recommendations based on what we think most gamers are going to like. Any keyboards that had major quality issues were out of the running.

In addition to play testing, we did a ton of research, scouring reviews both professional and on social media to get a general sense of how people felt about their keyboards.

On top of performance we’re looking for ergonomics while playing, key feel and durability if we happened to hammer on the keys a little more than usual. We wanted to see if the keyboards we tested would let us keep our APMs up in Starcraft, give us quick confidence in Invoker combos in Dota 2 and let us AD strafe well in Apex Legends, all of our picks past this initial play test. How we testedįirst off, we played a bunch of games for a pretty large chunk of hours with each keyboard we considered with specific focus on MOBAs, RTS and FPS. The optical switches are very smooth and satisfying to use with an excellent form factor for gaming in the TKL.Įveryone has different preferences, we’ve included more picks in our top 5. Razer definitely surprised me with the Huntsman TE, it has a standard bottom row and PBT keycaps which is something that was lacking with basically all the major accessories companies for a long time. Razer’s best keyboard packs optical switches, PBT keycaps in an attractive TKL format.
