Improve Your Gaming Experience with Gaming Keyboards

 Gaming keyboards can be worth it if they have the proper features such as mechanical switches, N-key rollover, and a wired connection. Most of the extra features that come with a gaming keyboard don’t make you better in-game, but can be useful and worth it.

Let’s dig a bit deeper into this topic and explain what features make a gaming keyboard worth it.

What is a Gaming Keyboard?

 

I’m sure you’re wondering, what sets a gaming keyboard apart from a normal keyboard? The honest answer is simply one word, marketing. There are several big companies out there such as Razer, Corsair, and Logitech who make keyboards specifically for the purpose of gaming, but you want to know a secret? Any keyboard can work great for gaming. While there are a few features that can optimize the gaming experience, it’s important to know that you don’t need to buy a gaming keyboard just because you play games.

 

Gaming keyboard manufacturers will usually take a normal looking keyboard, slap on some RGB, maybe a new font on the keys, and then sell that for a marked-up price. Because now they are selling a gaming keyboard. I want to challenge you to be smarter than that, instead of purchasing a keyboard just because it looks cool, take a few minutes to dig into the features and decide if those will improve your experience the next time you go on a gaming marathon.

Any keyboard (including the one you are using right now) can be good for gaming, but there are some keyboards made for the purpose of gaming. Not all of these gaming keyboards are bad, in fact, a lot are quite nice. The purpose of this article is to help you cut through the noise and help you pick out a keyboard that checks all of the boxes to help improve your gaming experience.

What Features Do You Need for a Gaming Keyboard?

 

For all of you RGB lighting enthusiasts out there, I’m sorry, but your 50 different specialized lighting effects don’t actually make you any better at video games. There are only a few features that can actually make you more competitive and faster in-game. Many features can make gaming enjoyable, but we’re looking strictly at the features that can make you more competitive.

Features that can improve response time, improve reliability, and make gaming feel really consistent are what will actually make a difference when it comes to edging out the competition.

There are three main items we’re going to look at for boosting your competitive level:

getting a mechanical keyboard, a wired connection, and N-key rollover.