The Huntsman Elite runs on Razer's Synapse 3 software. While the disparity would probably not be so great against other mechanical models, there's no denying that the Huntsman Elite is both fast and accurate. For comparison, the membrane keyboard on an Origin gaming laptop gave me 109 wpm with seven errors. In terms of everyday typing, I scored 122 words per minute with no errors on the Huntsman Elite on. (If you did, a Fortnite match could take hundreds of thousands of years to resolve.) Rather than relying on a mechanical switch to make electrical contact, the Huntsman Elite's optical switches work through infrared light. Remember: Your signal may get sent at the speed of light, but you don't process stimuli or interact with your keyboard at relativistic speeds. Believe it or not, the actual switch is there mostly for feel the real magic happens in the cylinder.Īs for whether this has any practical effect on games or typing, that's harder to say.
If you pry a key cap off of the Huntsman Elite, you'll see this unusual mechanism: a purple switch, attached to a metal spring, with a clear plastic cylinder at the back. The star attraction in the Huntsman Elite is Razer's purple optomechanical switch. If a keyboard requires two USB cables, I'd much rather have one act as a pass-through, and I'm probably not alone in that. Furthermore - and much more problematic - is that the wrist rest underglow requires a second USB connection. Unless your room is somewhat dark to begin with, you may not notice it at all, even with the illumination turned all the way up. The problem with underglow, as you may have guessed, is that it doesn't direct light to a place that's very easy to see. This creates a very pretty effect - if you can see it. A thin LED strip surrounds the underside of the wrist rest, and you can sync the lights with the rest of your keyboard. However, the wrist rest has an unusual feature, which I'm not sure is really worth the trade-off: "underglow" backlighting. A magnetic connection ensures that the wrist rest and the keyboard sit nicely together, regardless of whether you keep the Huntsman Elite flat or prop it up. The wrist rest is sizable, but it's also extremely comfortable, with plush foam fabric and a sturdy plastic chassis. The Huntsman Elite measures about 18 x 6 inches with the wrist rest and about 18 x 10 inches with it.
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