Joystick Like CONTROL On A Keyboard?! - Wooting two HE Analog
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,761 words · ~8 min read
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- Use this cutout to create a keyboard stand for those juicy pictures.
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(people laughing) Wait what, this is actually... Hold on, hold on.
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That's actually like pretty cool. The thing about keyboards that kind of sucks
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is that you don't get that little bit of control that you get with analog thumb sticks.
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You've got to like tap a key, really lightly a whole bunch, instead of being able to just push a stick forward,
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ever so slightly to walk right up to the edge that you want to walk up to.
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So what I'm really excited about with this Wooting Two HE keyboard, is it's analog.
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Which is really cool.
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Sorry, I got distracted by the switches. They're all off, they're right here.
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That's it, now here's the key caps. Okay, so that sucks,
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I gotta install all the key caps. Look, we've got an accessory pack.
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We've got a puller, a cable and four switches. I got to judge the cable too, real bad.
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Oh, this is actually really impressive.
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Oh, the switches and the key cap puller. Yeah, they're great,
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I mean, but once you have like five of them. So these are the switches. These are those Lekker switches.
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So I guess they give you four replacements. Yeah, what I really want to show you
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is the bottom of this thing. It's just got these little side clips, but no pins
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because it actually uses magnets. Get rid of this box. Oh, it's kind of cool though.
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There's like a little... You don't own a Wooting until you share it
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with others on our discord or tag us on Instagram. Use this cutout.
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Use this cutout to create a keyboard stand for those juicy pictures.
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Wait what... This is actually, hold on, hold on.
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You gotta see this, you gotta see this. So you can like, yeah.
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Can we get scissors? Cause we can make a keyboard stand with this thing.
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Yeah, it's a serious pain that I have to actually cut this out
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because like the cardboard is, you know, it's thick. There you go.
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Very cool. Can we open it and just like flip it on?
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No, there's no way. Yeah, there's no way. So they come in like pretty stuck in,
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they use the same cross pattern on the top. So any key caps that you have, custom or just, you know,
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like Jam K sets or whatever, you can put that from your keyboard onto this one.
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It's got like a little cable routing space down here.
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Oh and the blue stabilizers. Yeah, these stabs are look nice too.
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They're linear. So if you like click keys or
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tactile switches, it's not for you, sorry. It sounds okay.
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The real test though is like the space bar because a lot of stabilizers, just sound bad.
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I think I know what it is, why people can't... Oh,
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I don't know if they pre lubed them or what, but they actually don't rattle.
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(upbeat music)
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The overall sound is like pretty decent. (keyboard clicking)
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It's a little too high pitched for me. I like a deeper like thud to it.
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- Can you make the sound for us? - Like a thud, thud, I don't know.
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185, okay, so this thing is almost $200.
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(keyboard clicking) It sounds okay for that price range.
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Like I guess what you're really paying for is the analog feature on the switches.
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The layout's fine. It's your standard full keyboard. Flexes like a little bit.
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But it feels okay. The cool thing is you can actually change, not the force,
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but like where it actuates. Okay, so we've got all our key caps on, it sounds okay.
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Oh (beep), it's got RGB now. Sorry, I'm trying not to swear.
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I got a mouth like a sailor from working in a butcher shop for three years. Oh, what I do like is it shines
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through the clear housing, on the switches really well.
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So I usually type about 120 words a minute at like a hundred percent accuracy.
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It doesn't feel bad, it feels great. I'm just doing real bad.
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Yeah, that was terrible. 90 words a minute. Dirt, it's got Dirt on here.
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So this is cool, it's not giving me keyword prompts,
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it's giving me controller prompts. Okay, so here's what I wanna see. So like...
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Okay, so yeah, holding W just got straight throttle,
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but then I should be able to just slightly further the gas.
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Yeah it works. Ah, the one thing though,
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is that since the travel distance is actually here to there,
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like that's what, I mean five millimeters or something,
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like it's really not much. What's it called?
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Wootility, that is the best name for software.
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(people laughing) Oh, okay. So you've got like an RGB layout, which is great.
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You can like fully customize where your RGB goes, but you've got these digital profiles and analog profiles.
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And so these analog profiles are what I was talking about earlier, where I said that you can change where exactly the height is
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for the actuation on everything. Dark theme, every time.
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Oh, you can remap everything. That's actually pretty cool too.
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And then you can change the actuation point. So if I go there, open like a notepad.
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Yeah, so I'm barely pressing it. I'm barely pressing it and it comes up.
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So if I go back to like 3.6 millimeters. Yeah, I got to push a lot further.
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Okay. Oh, you can create profiles too. So you have to switch it in software
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instead of just a little toggle on the keyboard, which would actually be pretty cool.
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Yeah, I don't see anything. - Dude, I saw macro keys. Those alpha keys.
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- Oh, okay. I mean, they're changing the RGB. So yeah, it looks like they are changing the profile,
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but like, I don't see that represented in the software. I don't know what these are doing.
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It might just be RGB modes. Uh, it feels okay, like having less range feels like a normal keyboard,
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I guess, where I'm just kind of pressing it all the way down
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and not really feathering it all that much. Like it's weird how much this feels more comfortable to me
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than trying to like feather it properly.
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So I'm gonna swap out, change it to, all the way down to 1.5 millimeters.
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I really wish you could change it to like zero. This feels okay.
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Again, I think my main problem overall with this thing is that like, it's not easy to feather keys.
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Cause it's just your finger pressing down on this thing. Especially with the higher like...
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Oh, what's the word? Actuation force, I guess.
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When it's like wait too hard to press a key down.
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I mean, these are like 60 grams or something, so it's not too bad.
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One other big downside to this keyboard is that you can only swap it with other Lekker switches.
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I mean, I think that the learning curve on this to try to actually get that proper, you know,
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ability to feather on and off, I think it's pretty high to be perfectly honest.
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All of your keyboard instinct is just press,
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press all the way down. That's where you want it to go. It's an okay keyboard.
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I just think that if you're trying to buy it for a purely analog experience,
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it's more of something you're going to end up just like playing around with for 10 minutes
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and then setting it to whatever you want it to actually actuate on.
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Even when driving in Dirt, it didn't feel natural for me to just feather on half of it.
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Cause you naturally, like there's too much pressor. There's too much pressure.
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On a thumb stick, there's a lot more control with your thumb.
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Like your thumb is a much, like meteor finger, right?
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Like we do a lot of stuff with it. Whereas your fingers are kind of delicate in comparison.
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I don't know, maybe the space bar. No, even the space bar, it just doesn't feel right.
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It's like, it always wants to push down or push up. It doesn't want to meet me in the middle.
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So this is going to really appeal to someone who thinks that they're going to get an edge
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by having this analog input on a keyboard rather than feeling like they're forced
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to use a controller to get there. If you're so hardcore
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that you've got a steering wheel and gas pedal at that point, you're not going to buy this thing.
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You're just going to buy a better racing rig. But I think if you want to actually use these,
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the way they're intended for like proper analog use, they need to up the stem,
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another three, four millimeters, to give you finer control.
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Yeah, that's the problem. It's like analog but
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not analog enough. Thanks for watching everyone.
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This is the Wooting Two HE, it's not bad.
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Couple of hundred bucks. I don't know, I would get something else,
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but I think it definitely appeals to a bunch of people out there.
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If you like this video, it's not a TKL, but you can check out Linus' review
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of the Logitech TKL, that was a nice keyboard.
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Especially if you like Logitech and you don't want to build your own custom board.
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Cause we all know that's way too expensive.