3 Best Hall Effect Keyboards for Gamers and Serious Typists (2025)

Other Hall Effect Keyboards to Consider

Asus Falchion Ace HFX for $200: The Falchion Ace HFX (7/10, WIRED Recommends) has a batch of unsocial features, and underneath them, it’s genuinely a coagulated Hall effect keyboard. Small details similar a touchpad and a carnal rapid-trigger switch, paired with big-ticket items similar an 8,000-Hz polling complaint and 1 of the amended customization bundle available, marque this keyboard some intuitive for regular usage and almighty for high-speed gaming. It feels bully to benignant on, looks good, and tin beryllium customized extensively without needing to adjacent your crippled oregon unfastened up customization software.

SteelSeries Apex Pro Mini Gen 3 for $220: The Apex Pro Mini (6/10, WIRED Review) is simply a perfectly serviceable HE keyboard with coagulated switches, accelerated refresh rates, and utile features similar accelerated trigger and mis-input protection. However, the physique prime is simply a spot underwhelming for the price, and SteelSeries’ GG bundle tin beryllium tedious astatine times to use. The Apex Pro Mini uses a tray equine with modular GH60 mounting points. This means the typing acquisition feels a spot stiff compared to gasket-mounting, but it tin easy beryllium customized with aftermarket cases. While it’s yet a serviceable keyboard, I can’t urge it astatine MSRP. Wait until this 1 is connected sale.

Sony Inzone KBD-H75 for $300: The archetypal gaming keyboard nether Sony’s Inzone brand, the KBD-H75, sounds good, feels comfy to benignant connected (which is expected from Gateron switches), and has functional bundle to travel it. Sony’s Inzone Hub has extended adjustable settings for however the Hall effect switches behave, with adjustable actuation distances and customizable accelerated trigger functionality. Much similar Sony’s cameras, though, the mounting adjustments tin beryllium a spot excessively overmuch astatine times—they supply much customization than astir users volition cognize what to bash with, and don’t supply overmuch guidance connected however they enactment oregon what they should beryllium acceptable to. The RGB lighting is bright, and the 8,000-Hz polling is connected par with adjacent the highest-end gaming keyboards today. The effect clip of this keyboard feels fantastic, too. The gasket-mount is comparatively firm, feeling much comfy than a tray-mount without introducing excessively overmuch flex erstwhile typing. However, the KBD-H75 doesn’t person a SOCD strategy (like Snap Tap). The measurement knob tin easy get “stuck” betwixt 2 bumps and not registry an input. Unlike different options connected this list, the KBD-H75 lone has an aluminum apical half, with the bottommost of its lawsuit being made from plastic—something that shouldn’t beryllium the lawsuit for a wired-only keyboard astatine this price. It's a serviceable premium keyboard, but I'd hold for a sale.

Elecom VK720A for $63: As 1 of the fewer Hall effect keyboards connected this database to usage a non-Gateron switch, this keyboard stands retired against the competition. The switches are coagulated and smooth, and the keyboard feels bully to benignant on. It has immoderate amusive quirks, similar swappable spacebars and a acceptable of keycaps that were designed specifically for gaming (which enactment precise good for that). A deficiency of wireless connectivity and a middling physique prime sound it down a peg, but it’s a coagulated enactment nonetheless.

Avoid These Keyboards

Corsair K70 Pro TKL: If you’re lone kind of looking for a Hall effect keyboard, the Corsair K70 Pro TKL (5/10, WIRED Review) mightiness beryllium for you. The halfway clump of keys uses Hall effect switches, but the full extracurricular of this keyboard uses modular mechanical switches. While this isn’t a immense contented if you lone usage the halfway clump of keys, it inactive results successful inconsistent customization options and a keyboard that has 2 abstracted typing feels betwixt the main keys and the peripheral ones. Plus, if you set the actuation region of your HE switches, you’ll beryllium stuck with a ample fig of keys astir the extracurricular that execute wholly otherwise than them, which I didn’t bask erstwhile I tested this keyboard. If you similar the design, I’d urge redeeming a fewer dollars and going for the Core TKL Wireless exemplary instead. It adds Bluetooth and 2.4-GHz connectivity, and it has a accordant typing consciousness with modular mechanical switches crossed the full board.

SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL: SteelSeries seemingly made the aforesaid mistake arsenic Corsair, besides opting to person lone the cardinal clump of keys usage HE switches. This keyboard has a fewer advantages implicit Corsair’s version, however, similar an OLED show that adds a spot of amusive and functionality. However, I truly can’t urge this exemplary implicit SteelSeries’ 60% HE keyboard, since you’re getting conscionable arsenic galore Hall effect switches successful a overmuch much compact signifier factor.

Corsair Vanguard Pro 96: The Vanguard Pro 96 feels similar Corsair’s archetypal serious effort astatine a Hall effect keyboard, and it's reasonably competent. The physique prime feels solid, the switches are smooth, and the layout feels great. Corsair’s SOCD feature, FlashTap, works incredibly well, and the switches consciousness responsive and speedy with 8,000-Hz polling and debased latency. Beyond that, the representation foam wrist remainder is comfortable, and the keycaps person conscionable the close texture to consciousness grippy without being abrasive. The surface successful the apical close country chiefly displays changes to settings, specified arsenic adjusting the switches’ actuation distances, enabling FlashTap, oregon changing the functionality of the knob. The knob tin beryllium utilized to set actuation distance, alteration volume, and swap betwixt windows. So wherefore don't I urge it? Customization is precise limited. The surface tin lone show GIFs and images (no options for strategy accusation similar GPU and CPU temperatures oregon instrumentality speeds), and aggregate inputs (like enabling FlashTap, adjusting RGB, and adjusting actuation distance) can’t beryllium remapped to antithetic keys than the default. Certain settings, similar adjusting the power actuation distance, can’t beryllium mapped to circumstantial keys and tin lone beryllium done done the knob. The Vanguard Pro 96 isn’t compatible with Corsair’s iCue software, either, thing that is specifically advertised connected the box. Corsair claims it is moving connected iCue support, but similar immoderate committedness successful the tech world, I'll judge it erstwhile I spot it. If Corsair tin benignant retired the bundle issues with this keyboard, I volition gladly urge it. This is, physically, a truly bully keyboard. However, successful its existent state, it feels half-baked.

Syntech Chronos68: This keyboard does beauteous overmuch everything incorrect erstwhile it comes to tuning a keyboard, creating thing that, portion functional, is not pleasant to benignant connected astatine all. The largest contented is the Outemu dustproof switches: They're truly bad. I’ve tested a batch of Hall Effect keyboards, and rather a fewer of them felt a spot brushed astatine the bottommost of the keypress. None of them compares to the Chronos68, which has a soft, uncomfortable bottom-out connected immoderate of the keys, but not each of them! It feels similar a important percent of them were over-lubed by the factory. It feels similar you’re typing straight into a portion of sponge cake, oregon an Oreo that’s been dipped successful milk. The assembly is simply a modular tray-mount, which has the emblematic flaws: Stiffer spots wherever the sheet screws into the case, and softer spots wherever it doesn’t. However, the sound-dampening foam combines with the switches to make an unpleasant typing sound; a muted top-end, a dense mid-range, and subtle debased frequencies that marque the keyboard dependable similar you’re listening to it done low-quality earplugs. This keyboard’s show is acceptable—it has each the expected features similar Rapid Trigger, 8,000-Hz polling, adjustable actuation distance, and SOCD adjustment—but the bundle is not. The SynHub Driver bundle is laggy and awkward to use. Ultimately, the specs and functionality aren’t worthy suffering done the remainder of the keyboard’s idiosyncratic experience.

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