Looking for help buying a Mechincal keyboard

Spiralwind

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I am a gamer that plays on a gamming laptop i play mostly fps games and I wanted to finally build my own custom pc but the keyboard is my problem I would like a mechanical keyboard I could use but i am left- hand with a disabilty with my right hand it is deformed and on my laptop i would use the arrow keys to move and i would only use my pinky to hit all the arrow keys and my other finger for everything else except jump which i use for my thumb. I was wondering if you guys know any good mechincal (preferably) keyboards i could use

My key binding for games are like this

Ex) overwatch

Movement:
Forward:uparrow
Backward:backarrow
Left: leftarrow
Right:rightarrow
Jump:spacebar
Crouch: .
Abilty 1: :
Abilty 2: ;
Abilty 3: middlemousebutton
Melee: mousebutton 4
Leaderboard: mousebutton 5
Voicechat: L

I keyboard i currently use is on the msi gs70 2qe stealth pro red edition
https://goo.gl/images/Cs716r
 

JoeMomma

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Congrats on not letting a disability ruin your fun and finding a work around!

Any good mechanical keyboard will do. I'm using a Gigabyte Force K85 it's about $70.
However I think you would be better off waiting for one of the new analog keyboards (but they probably won't be cheap).
Regular keyboards have on/off switches.
Analog keyboards work like a gas pedal, the harder you press the faster you go.

Cooler Master MK851
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/aimpad-analog-keyboard-tech-cooler-master-mk851,36283.html
 

Spiralwind

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Why the analog keyboards? It seems useful for racing games but for fps i don't see much use unless it for driving in the game because most of the abilty are single press meaning that you don't need to push down harder for it to be better because the result is the same and for games like overwatch it just wouldn't work because it would be like paying to win.
 

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The analog keyboards usually only have the special switches on the WASD and the arrow keys.
I was thinking that instead of holding a 2nd modifier key to run or walk you could control it with one finger.
A slow strafe side to side might be useful when aiming though the sights while hiding behind cover.
I just wanted to make you aware that there are alternatives.

If people can pay to win by building a $5,000 PC that runs all games at 4K 200FPS, what's wrong with getting an advanced keyboard to play a little better?
I believe that all the kewl kids will have an analog keyboard by next year.


 

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You make a very good point i never thought of it like that it would prove very useful for games that have an extra keys for walking and running so I guess i might get an analog keyboard thanks but for now i just wait and see what other kinds of keyboards i could use