Best Gaming Keyboard – The Ultimate Guide

Best Gaming Keyboard – The Ultimate Guide If you ask the pros (and us) you will want a mechanical keyboard for gaming. Looking at our analyzed professionals we can see that 98% use a mechanical keyboard. That says a lot, and it makes sense too. The advantages of a mechanical over a regular membrane board really can’t be denied. Compared to a regular rubber dome keyboard (which is what most consumer grade boards are) each key on a mechanical plank houses a complete switch underneath it with its own housing, spring, and so on. This gives you a much crisper and precise typing/gaming sensation compared to a rubber dome board, because the latter uses a sheet of rubber that’s laid out over the circuitry of the keyboard with a little dome underneath each key. Said dome depresses when you press a key, causing the top of the dome (which is coated with a conductive material on the inside) to make contact with the circuitry to register a key press, but that whole process can feel mushy...