My history with Hall Effect keyboards + Wooting 60HE v2 Semi-Review
My first experiences with Wooting & first HE keyboard
Around late 2022, a now-deleted tweet by osu! player moonpoint (known as Apo11o at the time) completely changed the conversation around gaming keyboards. It claimed that top speed players were secretly using Rapid Trigger on the Wooting Two to achieve better scores while keeping it under wraps. Everyone, me included, was asking the same question: "What the fuck is Rapid Trigger?"
As interest in Wooting's keyboards exploded, they began reaching out to several communities by offering pro players and creators a 10% discount along with early shipping, given that they introduced themselves and shared a bit about their background. Curious about all the hype surrounding Rapid Trigger, I also reached out myself.
A few days later, I ordered a Wooting 60HE, my first Hall Effect keyboard.
From the moment I started using it, the advantages of Rapid Trigger immediately stood out, and its core features completely changed my expectations of what a gaming keyboard could be. Most people already know exactly how and why Rapid Trigger was a complete game changer for competitive gaming as a whole, so I won't go into detail about it here.
Performance aside, it still wasn't the best sounding keyboard. It performed great, of course, but the stabilizers were rattly, and the original switches sounded super "chattery." I felt it could use a bit more modding, so that's exactly what I did. Over the next two and a half years, I swapped cases, switches, keycaps, and lubed the stabilizers (to failure 💀) until it felt like my own. It ended up becoming one of the longest-used peripherals I've ever owned thanks to how easily customizable it was.
Switching to other keyboards
After nearly two and a half years with the Wooting 60HE, I bought a new Hall Effect keyboard: the Wooting 80HE.
I first bought it in March 2025. The advertised 8K polling rate was a compelling upgrade on paper and was personally noticable for me, but I never really enjoyed its PC plate for osu!, my unit had terrible stabilizers, and after years on a 60%, I realized the larger layout mostly took up desk space for keys I rarely used.
