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the accepted wisdom for a long time has been that if you want a truly enthusiast

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class typing or gaming experience you need a mechanical keyboard and with

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features like superior build quality satisfying tactile feedback and quicker

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response times perhaps there was only one thing that

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could actually have made them even better and that would be freaking laser

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optical key switches like the ones that we are looking at today promise

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extremely quick response times and shorter actuation distances than popular

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mechanical key switches from manufacturers like cherry

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but for some reason they remain a niche item the fact that the big boys of

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current keyboard manufacturing like Corsair and logitech haven't picked them

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up yet probably isn't helping

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so we turned to bloody tesoro and wooting the only three companies we

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could find that are currently incorporating them into their keyboards

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to see if this technology has a bright future let's start with a quick look at

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how they work currently there are two main types of optical switches one uses

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a plunger that blocks a beam of light and when the key is pressed a gap in the

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plunger moves down and allows the light beam to hit a sensor that registers a

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key press two of our keyboards the bloody b720 and the tesoro excalibur se

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spectrum use this process with the bloody switches branded as light strike

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abbreviated as lk for some reason while the tesoro uses

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swappable switches from gatoron gataron

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gaturon either way both keyboards incorporate

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waterproofing as well a nice value for you mountain dew fanatics the second

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main type flaretech instead uses an upwards firing beam to determine how far

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downward the key has been pressed meaning instead of simply registering a

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key as pressed or not the keyboard can

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instead register a partial key press

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similar to how an analog trigger on a game controller can be pushed only part

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way down to accelerate a little bit more slowly than a full press in a driving

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game so our third keyboard the wu ting one is available with these flaretech

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switches in two flavors red linear switches or blue clicky ones which are

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user swappable and we'll start with a closer look at this one wuting actually

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markets this granular level of input sensitivity control as analog which is

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not technically correct because the keyboard is really just registering one

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of 256 distinct states of pushed

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downness but for the sake of helping users understand the tech we see why

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they did this and in practice the action is very smooth i doubt that most users

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would actually even be able to notice the difference let's demonstrate how this works with

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forza 3. here you can see how pushing down the keys that are mapped to the

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steering wheel only part way results in a much more gradual turn while a gentler

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throttle press also allows finer control over acceleration neat huh

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you'll also find a surprising amount of customizability in wooting one's

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software package which is called and no do not adjust your headphones you heard

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me right wutility not only can you remap keys to

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functionality like triggers on a gamepad but you can set up multiple analog

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profiles with different sensitivity curves since you might want the keys to

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react differently depending on whether you're piloting a tank in battlefield or

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controlling a soccer player footballer in fifa something to note is

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that this analog functionality doesn't actually kick in until after the two

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millimeter actuation distance which is similar to most cherry mx switches so

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while wooting is looking into the ability to build a hair trigger capable

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version in the future for now the utility can only be used to

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make the actuation distance longer if you prefer less sensitivity in

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something like a turn based game or if you're just

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typing and of course all this additional functionality doesn't mean the wu ting

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one is automatically the best option in every scenario let's move on to the

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bloody b720 its lk switches lack the

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fancy analog functionality but it boasts a very short actuation distance of 1.5

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millimeters the shortest of any of the keyboards in our roundup to see if

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there's a tangible benefit we had our resident cs go wizard edsel test out

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each of the keyboards and while he didn't feel that the wooting or tesoro

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were appreciably different from common cherry mx reds he really liked the quick

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response of the bloody saying that while

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the difference wasn't huge it definitely

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was noticeable kind of like going from a 144 to a 240hz monitor in his words and

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we didn't even tell him the actuation point specs before he tried it out so

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give bloody some credit here they're claimed to have the world's fastest key

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response might just be true at least when

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comparing to other optical solutions the mx speeds claim a slightly shorter

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actuation distance at 1.2 millimeters

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and although edsel didn't think this made a difference in game responsiveness

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he did think the lk switches were a bit heavier so keep that in mind if you use

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a light touch on your keyboard and this leads us into our impressions

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of overall build quality and usability in our opinion the wooting one walked

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away the clear winner in this department its deck is quite rigid which often

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indicates a well-made keyboard and its understated brushed finish and subtle

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logo at the bottom give it a higher end appearance not to mention i really liked

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how this thing felt under my fingers it was soft but in a good way kind of like

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typing on boobs for whatever it's worth and then when you use the clicky

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switches it was sharp and satisfying the

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bloody with its giant blood-soaked logo

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on the other hand practically screams we

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tried to make this look as gamer as possible at any cost

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and the keys felt a bit mushy for my liking though ed didn't seem to mind so

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that's something to note and the build quality overall seemed solid if

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unexceptional unfortunately i can't say the same about the tesoro i was able to

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twist the keyboard way too much even with a minimal amount of torque maybe

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that's what they meant by break the rules at 92 dollars it isn't a bad piece

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of hardware it just simply doesn't do anything better than the other two the

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bloody however presents an interesting alternative to mx speed switches thanks

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to its very competitive price of 75 bucks u.s

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the wu ting one is by far the most interesting one we checked out today

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possessing a unique feature set with solid build quality and customizability

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but i would probably only shell out the

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160 euros it'll cost you if the games

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you play specifically benefit from their pseudo analog functionality or if you

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want a typing experience that matches your tacky mouse mat

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LTT thanks for watching guys this video

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anyway yeah check out this video which is uh

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seeing the first video i ever made which was on my own and it never got uploaded

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anywhere and it was on a ducky keyboard from like way back my mom filled it

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filmed it on a flip hd camera in our kitchen at the time

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see you later