Cynosa, sorry for the typo.

is this primarily for D4?

I would just go to a brick and mortar like Best Buy or Microcenter whatever you got available and press on some of the displayed keyboards/sometimes they got switches setup so you can feel the difference.
I seen some of the major keyboard brands have all their mechanical switches you can purchase for like 10$ and press each one from the comfort of your own home. Switches themselves when you get into the mechanical game whether hotswapped boards or one's you gotta solder the switches on are really cheap (like 25cents ea cheap). Just remember you gotta buy like 105 of them if you're doing full keyboard length or short one etc.

For me the issues I had with hand straining or arm going numb was the sitting angle in relation to my desk.
I sit reclined back and reach very far away from my desk and I have to reach forward into my desk and my elbows barely reach the arm rest on my Razer chair(idk what it's called but it was 400 when I bought it 2-3 years ago. So basically I'm holding my arms out in front of me similar to the seating position in a cruiser style motorcycle.
Your shoulders should be relaxed, your elbows should reach the arm rest and your hands should be able to rest on the desktop/keyboard between 60 to 90degree bend.
If not I'm sure everyone has felt the shoulder and neck pains of slouching/bad seating position. Most people blame it on the chairs but you can literally sit upright without a backrest and be fine.

I use one or those cookie cutter IKEA huge alex drawer/counter top with a peg leg for more support in the middle of the desk 75+ inch desk with my mid tower and 3x 27in monitors on it like in all the YouTuber videos. Saying my setup more so you can get a mental image of your seating orientation etc.

But I have a K70 from corsair when it was the flagship model, a Razer blackwidow v3, then got sucked into the keyboard hype and got one of those 60% keyboards from Razer with optical switches when it was getting more popular. Now I have the 375$ DIY'ish one from Glorious.
(I donate all my old parts to my wife and kids pc's so they're happy lol)

TLDR: I think it's more about sitting position/arm positioning that relates to occupational hazards(like typing prescriptions at a desk all day in a pharmacy for example). 9 times out of 10 any pain associated with gaming is usually a ergonomics issue. Is why people love console gaming cause it's mainly wireless controller with a couch or whatever you're more comfortable in.

This post was edited by vizzle on Oct 30 2023 02:38pm

Wow and CS, D4 bad! 😏





Great post and something I need to think about. My posture blows.

if image works, I think my hands are also too far apart lol, even with a 60% keyboard and fps mouse (the one with only 2 buttons @ thumb, tried em all like razer naga 12 button, corsair 12button, etc)

but see his shoulders and arms looks like he reached out hella too far. I think this is a good example of how most of us relax and play, albeit bad posture wise.

and the opposite is some sit too close to the screen with their shoulders hunched up like their doing a shoulder/trap exercise.

This post was edited by vizzle on Oct 30 2023 08:59pm

Gentlemen, I thank you all for posting. I am not sure what happened late last night, but I preordered a Wooting 60E. Hopefully it’s nice!

Also visiting posture, seat and desk height- appreciate that info.

De La Riva guard is fun, I’ve been doing k guard stuff a lot (2 stripe purple belt). I’ve been using a Hyper X keyboard for about 4 years, solid so far no complaints (this is one of the alloy series ones)

This post was edited by ZPureHate on Oct 31 2023 01:09pm

My bro you sound like my coach. He’s been doing the k guard meta a bunch in class. I am just starting to see all the options and it’s blowing my mind

I see

I’m not sure that you contributed to the conversation, but I guess getting your post count up is valuable for trading lol.