How Do Keyboard Switch Types Affect Gaming Performance?

        When professional e-sports players complete skill combos within 0.1 seconds, the response speed of the keyboard switch body may determine the outcome. The "White Paper on the Performance of Game Keyboard Switch Bodies" recently released by WEIPENG shows that the impact of different switch body types on operation accuracy and hand fatigue varies by as much as 40%. This technological race about "feel" is reshaping the standards of the gaming peripheral industry.

The three major mainstream axes have evolved from "clicking" to "light-speed triggering"

        Tactile Switch: Represented by the blue switch, it produces a distinct "tactile sensation" and a crisp sound when triggered. A professional MOBA player reported: "The physical feedback on the paragraph axis enables me to blindly play skill keys, reducing the error rate in team battles by 25%." However, WEIPENG also cautioned that its 55g trigger pressure is suitable for strategy games, and prolonged FPS battles may accelerate finger fatigue.

        Linear Switch: The red switch, silver switch, etc. are designed in a "straight up and straight down" manner, with a triggering pressure as low as 35g. Data from WEIPENG's laboratory shows that the 1.2mm short stroke of the silver axis can increase the speed of the emergency stop shooting operation in "CS:GO" by 0.03 seconds. This is equivalent to giving players a "free" increase of 20 APM points. The product manager quipped.

        Optical Switch: Triggered by infrared light sensing, it completely eliminates the wear of mechanical contacts. Tests conducted by WEIPENG in collaboration with e-sports clubs have shown that the 0.2ms response time of the optical axis is 10 times faster than that of traditional axes. In extreme operations such as the sword strike combo in "Naraka: Bladepoint", the success rate has increased by 18%.

        Some players say that our optical axis "seems to have a physical cheat". WEIPENG, the R&D director, smiled and said, "In fact, we have merely turned the speed of light into tangible technology."

The design philosophy from "parameter competition" to "experience symbiosis"

        WEIPENG refuses to pile up technologies that are "fast for the sake of being fast". For instance, when customizing the switch body for Genshin Impact players, the team discovered that the character's sprint key needs to have the dual characteristics of "light touch to release and long press to stabilize". The finally launched "dual-stage trigger shaft" achieves a unique feel by altering the internal spring structure, with a light trigger at 0.5mm in the front and a stable pressure at 3mm in the back.

        The more breakthrough is the "Hot-swappable Shaft 2.0" technology. WEIPENG allows players to freely combine the reels like building with Lego: play League of Legends with the linear reels, play APEX with the linear reels, and even configure optical reels separately for the WASD keys. A player used our keyboard to play both rhythm games and fighting games at the same time. He said, "It's like installing variable gears on your fingers." The marketing manager shared.

WEIPENG's goal is to make the axis body an "extension of the player's body"

        In the next three years, keyboard switches will transform from "input tools" to "neural interfaces". General Manager WEIPENG disclosed at the CES exhibition, "We are developing a pressure-sensing shaft that can identify the player's emotions through the force of the button - automatically reducing the trigger pressure when nervous and enhancing the rebound feedback when excited."

        At present, WEIPENG has reached cooperation with 12 top e-sports teams around the world. Its shaft has passed the 100 million press test and has obtained the "gaming-level durability Certification" from TUV Rheinland. With the popularity of cloud gaming and VR devices, WEIPENG is developing a "haptic feedback axis" that simulates the touch of different materials through microcurrents - in Cyberpunk 2077, when pressing the keyboard, one can feel the "coldness of prosthetic metal" or the "roughness of desert sand".

        From the "click" of the blue switch to the "silent light speed" of the optical switch, the evolution history of the keyboard switch body is essentially a history of players' pursuit of "absolute control". Just as WEIPENG's motto goes: "The best technology should make people forget its existence." In this revolution about hand feel, this Chinese enterprise is redefining the boundary of "human-machine integration" with innovation.