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Hiya basil. I have a couple of mechanical keyboards and was just wondering, because I know that some MMO and RTS players as well as most serious typists use mechanical keyboards, how many Maplers do and their proficiency.
Yes, Maplestory hardly requires a great keyboard to play, but I assume that quite a few players play other games, like League, SC2, etc.

So pretty much, I wanted to ask all basilers which keyboard they used, which format (Dvorak, QWERTY, AZERTY, etc.), and their general typing speed in wpm.
Hope to have some respondents!

July 29, 2013

12 Comments • Newest first

Momijii

Just a regular laptop QWERTY keyboard. Typing tests put me at ~100 wpm, but I can certainly type faster when I'm writing essays or taking notes for classes.

Reply July 29, 2013
SorrowDeaths

[quote=qwertyxd]I'm using the Razer Blackwidow (MX Blues, QWERTY). General typing speed is around 90-120wpm.

People generally grab MX blues, browns, reds/blacks for mechanical keyboards.[/quote]

This, but I usually average around 140-ish wpm.

Reply July 29, 2013 - edited
anthony38640

QWERTY
Logitech G15
~132wpm

Reply July 29, 2013 - edited
maplerescue

QWERTY, standard Vaio keyboard that came with my old computer. The keys are big and clunky and I adore it.
WPM: About 95

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MeshMage

Using the Gigabyte Osmium!

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Theninja2777

Whoa, everyone has a speed like mine. General speed 110-120, just broke my record testing for this. [url=http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9127/tpa0.png]Here[/url]
I use the Quickfire TK with MX blues, as well as just a plain scissor-style laptop keyboard.

@DrCrane; How do you like the Razer? I had a chance to try it out and apparently the actuation is 40g vs 45g on mine, but I heard some bad things about the quality control and this was cheaper.

@eztokillyou: Oh boy, my other keyboard was a Corsair K60 with MX red; I was so incredibly inaccurate at first, and it's great for playing RTS but bad for typing.

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simaini

i'm just using a regular dell keyboard that comes with the computer
my wpm is probably over 100wpm. i took many of those tests, and they seem to vary a lot o.o but i usually get well over 100 and 115+

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eztokillyou

i'm using a corsair vengeance k90, cherry mx red. I type around 100 words per minute

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dracox5234

I use a qwerty keyboard that came built in to my laptop though I messed with the registry and switched a few keys around
my wpm is around 70 iirc

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n0Balls

I don't use keyboards

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Ecyz

Crappy old Dell keyboard I found in my basement, QWERTY
I only use it because it has volume buttons on the top
90-110 wpm, I'm a disgrace

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qwertyxd

I'm using the Razer Blackwidow (MX Blues, QWERTY). General typing speed is around 90-120wpm.

People generally grab MX blues, browns, reds/blacks for mechanical keyboards.

Reply July 29, 2013 - edited