I got a wounding 68g how did I get it
anyway let's open it up and take a look
at the super cool lekker analog switches
that are in this guy wooding makes some pretty good stuff but they're mostly
known for using analog switches and for
having basically the fastest keyboard you're gonna try or one of the fastest
at the very least there's basically zero latency sub 1 millisecond is what they
like to say uh how do I open this from
either side this is Sammy's so I want to
be a little careful I don't want to break any packaging but let's take a
look at what we get in the Box itself we have got our keyboard it says take
control and the cool wrist strap I've actually seen these before and then
we've got this little greetings from looting that I I'm gonna open I'm sorry
Sammy I'll try so hard not to
not to ruin anything for you I've got a little greeting card that's super cute
it's a really minor thing but you know it just it's just cute when you buy it
and you open it up it makes it feel just a little a little nice about your purchase but I'll try to put that back
for Sammy since it's got nothing else in there we've got a quick start guide that
you can use a QR code to access well that's pretty handy as much as I don't
like to gate things with phones yeah it's just you know it's less less uh
less environmental destruction speaking of which we've got a plastic little
protector here what just fell oh cardboard what else do
we have we've got a couple of extra switches in here so our wooding 60hg is
hot swappable so if you need to swap any of those out you can do it while it's
hot no problem I'm guessing this is a part of the wrist rest to attach it a
little rubber piece here with some screws and then what else do we have I
don't know what these screws are for probably part of the keyboard that's
actually kind of nice you know you don't usually strip them when you're taking it apart and putting it back together but
it can happen so yeah I'm actually really impressed that they sent it with
extra screws buy box now comes with two extra lequis
switches these lacquer switches are basically like a normal switch except for instead of any leaves or pins it's
just a hall effect sensor what that does though is lets them be analog you can
move it a little bit forward if your character just wants to walk but you
could also do Full Tilt forward if you want to run so you can do that with your
keyboard now these were actually in the last wooden keyboard we checked out the 2he I don't think our firmware was
working very well and so we're going to give it a much better shot this time the
nice thing about the 60 he is that it is obviously a 60 keyboard so it is much
smaller that kind of layout and size is also just a lot more popular right now
people realize that not a lot of them actually need their efro as long as they
have a function key and a good chunk of people don't need a numpad or at least not an attached one if you do feel like
you buy a smaller keyboard like a tkl 60 65 whatever at any point you can buy a
separate numpad plug it in you should be good to go if you need that like for
bank statements or Excel entries or anything like that the nice thing about
this though is that it's just tiny it's tiny tiny tiny and we get that big gamer
feel from it I will be frank I don't know why they have a wrist strap there's
a lot of things I do get about this keyboard that are actually really cool and great and the wrist strap kind of
looks neat I guess at the end of the day you can just choose to not install it if
that's what you prefer but you know it's it's the whole experience we want to we
want to get this whole thing yeah it's for that hardcore gamer feel
and then we just grew it together and
then boom you've got a wrist strap making sure I do it right because it's your keyboard I don't know what's going
on
so yeah it's like a WeMo while we're looking at the back though I'm gonna
check out what it says here as well as the feet they're not adjustable so
you're not going to get one two three stage feet or anything like that but they've got four rubber pads here and uh
you know it should do just fine it's not the heftiest keyboard it's about 605
grams but the reality is with something like this that you want small and a
wrist strap to keep it ready to go you kind of want it to be a little light it's a plastic shell there is a steel
plate in here so if you want to change that out feel free that's kind of the
nice thing about the wooding 60 he is that because it's a 60 there are a ton
of 60 cases that you can just pop it in
something else it'll probably sound and look a lot nicer not that they've done a
bad job I actually kind of like the little wooden crown logo one nice thing
that I didn't really point out is on the back it says we made the wooding 60 he
for you please take good care of her oh it's really cute I'm not gonna try to
read those because they're all hand script and I can't read it yeah it looks
good and if you like the black and yellow aesthetic then you know what hey this is maybe the keyboard for you for
example this is a 65 so it won't quite fit but we just built the tofu 65 2.0
for a different video think of the power and capability of a keyboard like this
in a nice solid aluminum case like this oh my God I bet you it's just fantastic
and you can do that if you want to we're not going to do it today but it's really
nice having that option you know just initial Impressions it
looks and sounds pretty decent we're going to do a little more thorough typing test and game on it but not
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Flex in the description below probably the best feature at least in my opinion
is the fact that their utility software is called utility which is just
absolutely Splendid name you can do a lot with it you can change the RGB you
can change the brightness you can change the actuation points on all the switches
you can customize it to whatever you want do you want your switches to
actuate once you hit basically almost nothing like 0.1 millimeter normally
it's your mouse but you never know maybe it's some weird game and you've got to just Mash a key you can do that so that
as soon as you let off the press it's ready to go again you don't have to release the key all the way for it to
register that it's ready to go so you can go just stay right on the bottom
there and just smash it as fast as you can luckily you know button mashing is
uh no longer as much of a thing in games not a qts are kind of dead but they
still come up every now and then now as for this keyboard is it even detected
yep okay now what I really need to know is how is this profile working digital
profile analog profile so what if I change the brightness down if there's a
save to keyboard but it's grayed out like it definitely changes like as soon
as I change something find device here let me find devices yes 68g connect okay
on utility web you have to give permission that's fine device found
update sure uh while this is updating as
you could see before there is definitely RGB on the keyboard and that's really
nice because while the keycaps are ABS they're a nice shine through ABS so it's
really easy to see the RGB right through them that's kind of it's a surprising
sticking point for a lot of people they ask me you know how do I get keycaps
where I can see them with the RGB like I want to see the letters and the legend
lit up and yeah it's just shine through keycaps they're not that hard to find
It's just sometimes harder to find a really nice quality set yeah it just
says you need to give permissions to the bootloader called wooding restore and I
click the give permission button and then it's like it wants to connect to
the device wouldn't restore paired I say okay connect
maybe I have to hit continue again we were trying it with the web utility
and it didn't work very well but once we downloaded the proper app set it up
updated all the firmware and all that it seems good to go now if I go back from
performance to color and I change the brightness off means off half means half
and full means full jelly what's jelly like
oh that's cool it's like Ripple but a little different that's sweet I you know
I'm not crazy about this I would probably just leave it on like No Effects and keep it on just playing RGB
or I'd set it to a primary color we're just gonna set it to wait
and then performance mode though this is super cool here's where we've got our
lacquer switch and then you can the set the per key actuation so if you only
want like your W for moving forward to actuate at the very top you can set it
to just W which is super cool left click on the keys to select them or while
holding down left click select multiple Keys move the actuation slider to give
them custom actuation points then wrap the trigger dynamically actuates and
resets your keys based on your intention to press or release the key it starts
and ends after the actuation point tachyon mode optimizes your keyboard for
input speed when enabled every keepass responds as fast as possible the RGB
effects are disabled analog stability might be affected okay well I don't want
to affect analog stability but let's say you don't want to set actuation points
you just want basically one of the fastest keyboards on the market so that
you can't blame your equipment anymore when you dot you can only blame yourself you miss that shot it's not because the
keyboard or the mouse sucks one nice thing too is it comes with a bunch of different profiles that comes set up
with just typing rapid bracing and mix movement I don't understand why mix
movement is thing but sure I'm just going to stick with typing profox it
seems pretty typical across the board at 0.8 millimeter actuation for us the cool
thing too is that this thing comes with eight megabytes of onboard memory so you
can save all of these profiles to the keyboard so if you take it and you go
somewhere else it's all still set up exactly the way you like it this thing
does come stock with a bunch of poron and EPDM foam layers and
it doesn't sound bad the space bar and some of the stabilizers could use a
little bit of work but it's not awful by any means and I don't think that you
like actually need to update them yourself I think
that if you want to just buy this and leave it stock that is perfectly acceptable and it's going to be you know
surprisingly impressive to a lot of people many of you if you're not used to
a 60 or 65 keyboard for anything that's not on the board that's missing you can
hit this function key and it basically acts as an extra layer of key presses so
for instance I don't have an F5 to refresh I'm going to hit function five and that works as F5 basically let's go
104 96 it's not my fastest it's actually
definitely one of the slower tests I've done and you know what while a lot of
you are going to buy this specifically for the analog switches one thing to
remember even though this is a hot swap board you can't just pop in tactiles if
you like tactiles the lecture switches are linear that's kind of on purpose so
that you can have all of that play in the actuation for us and like the analog
movement that you want to experience is only really going to be available
properly at least in a linear switch if you like linears that's great but if
you're really into tactiles or clickies this thing honestly might not be for you
that's kind of a really big deal for a lot of people but for gamers everyone
seems to love really light linear switches to have that instant kind of
response I'm really into tactiles right now so it's not so great for me as is
evidenced by this typing test but that's not why you're buying the board you're not buying the board for that so let's
play some games and look at that I'm going like eight kilometers eight miles
an hour nine miles an hour whatever and then I press it all the way and rein so
like pedal to the metal oh man and for like it's such a big deal for racing
games without a controller when you're pressing keys instead of using a
thumbstick a lot of the time pressing down a or D to turn left to right you're
going to like do a full turn or a full turn you know so you're just like
tapping it a lot of the time to try to get that really like Smooth curve in a
racing game whereas with this you actually have the full capability to
just you know just just turn just turn a little bit you'd have to play with the
actuation points quite a bit to get it exactly where you want it but with the
turns it's definitely a lot more difficult to just tap it a little bit
while you're playing but yeah it's honestly working and it's honestly like
really really cool I don't think I've ever wanted to feature more in keyboards
just all the time I don't know how much I'd actually use it personally uh when
it comes to racing games or fighting games or what else do I use a controller
for that's pretty much it anything involving shooting on basically keyboard and mouse well it definitely works the
RGB looks good it feels and sounds pretty decent especially for you know a
keyboard that's more of a gaming Centric keyboard at 175 dollars though while it
might not be the keyboard for me it could definitely be the keyboard for you
especially when you're comparing it to more other like gaming Brands like
Corsair or Logitech honestly I would buy the wooding every time if those are your
options there are plenty of other options if you want a really nice and
fancy quote-unquote mechanical keyboard but the reality is if you want analog
switches this is one of your only options if not the only option so yes
I'm gonna say that I would totally buy the booting 60he if it's kind of what
you're looking for I think it's not a bad buy and uh go for it it's a pretty
cool keyboard thanks for watching this is ShortCircuit if you want to watch
another show circuit about keyboards we did the key boom recently that thing was
really cool it was clear see-through pretty similar price too