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Best overall keyboard for roping in Worms Armageddon?
AduN:
cherry mx red switches and a couple of o-rings in space.
cheap and simple.
TheWalrus:
--- Quote from: AduN on July 27, 2019, 11:45 PM ---cherry mx red switches and a couple of o-rings in space.
cheap and simple.
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listen to adun
wormers keep on looking for a keyboard that will fix their timing mistakes
only practice makes you better, not keyboards
everyone is looking for a shortcut but there isn't one
Sensei:
--- Quote from: AduN on July 27, 2019, 11:45 PM ---cherry mx red switches and a couple of o-rings in space.
cheap and simple.
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How do you mean "couple" of o-rings..
Isn't spacebar equipped with only 1 switch? Which would mean only 1 o-ring as well!?
h3oCharles:
2 o-rings, m8
at this point, you may as well look at mx silent red or healios
Kradie:
--- Quote from: TheWalrus on July 28, 2019, 01:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: AduN on July 27, 2019, 11:45 PM ---cherry mx red switches and a couple of o-rings in space.
cheap and simple.
--- End quote ---
listen to adun
wormers keep on looking for a keyboard that will fix their timing mistakes
only practice makes you better, not keyboards
everyone is looking for a shortcut but there isn't one
--- End quote ---
Long ago back in the early 2000, I used regular plastic keyboard for roping and never gave a thought to it. There were no words about what keyboard you had, it was just about how good you were. My roping was fine, and over time my skills Improved. It was a unconscious acceptance to adapt to what you had.
Four years ago I still used a normal cheap plastic keyboard, and then something happened to it, so I had to get a new one. I still didn't care and thought about expensive keyboards, latency, etc, so I got myself a wireless keyboard. It worked well, I was happy with it, I adapted and mastered to its full potential as I did with my predecessors. By then people were raging on and on about mechanical keyboards, it was on worms, and youtube etc. So I thought to myself ''Why the hell not?'' so I Invested in a mechanical keyboard, with romer-g switches and I was surprised over how much I Improved, and I found myself I could even Improve more.
Unfortunately, one of the key switches broke, I was forced with 2 options; 1. Order a new keycap, and switch, dissemble the keyboard, remove switch, place new switch in and solden it. 2. Buy new one. I took my bet on the latter, and Invested in a new mechanical keyboard with red switches. My skills were dramatically reduced, my roping abilities became unstable & slow due to the spacebar. The spacebar is somewhat wobbly and overly sensitive. It is difficult to gain momentum and maintain speed. Sometime the rope shoots twice in a millisecond, or unwillingly. Sure, one could argue ''That's something to master'', but to that I say ''No''.- I have already mastered roping to a certain extent that I can feel comfortable at.
So I decided first time in my life to use wkRemapKeys. I switched spacebar to ctrl and capslock. My skills improved to its former glory, stable rope, acceleration and scrolls. Confidence was restored, and I was happy. Still, I need to get used to it, it feels odd.
Perhaps it is not about the switches, but how the keyboard is put together. Regardless, spacebar is worthless for roping on my current keyboard. And in the end, it does matter what keyboard you use and how much time you are willing to invest to master it. It is not like a noob turns into the best roper around given the right keyboard, all equipment takes time to overcome its potential. No matter if it is cheap or not.
Thanks for the replies nice people, I will take your feedback into consideration when I decide to get another keyboard :)
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