Wooting, a small Dutch company that has quietly built a cult following among competitive gamers, just dropped what reviewers are calling one of the best keyboards ever made. The 60HE v2 delivers true 8 kHz polling, roughly 0.125 milliseconds of latency in its Tachyon mode, and a level of customization that makes most mechanical keyboards look like Fisher-Price toys.
The keyboard comes in two flavors: an aluminum case model at $239.99 and a plastic variant at $179.99. There’s also a module option priced at $139.99 for those who want to upgrade an existing setup rather than buy a whole new board.
What makes this keyboard different
The core innovation here is Hall Effect switches. Unlike traditional mechanical switches that rely on physical metal contacts to register a keystroke, Hall Effect switches use magnetic sensors. In English: the keyboard can detect exactly how far down you’ve pressed a key, not just whether it’s pressed or not.
Wooting calls its proprietary switches “Lekker Tikken,” and they’re purpose-built for this kind of precision. The switches feed into Wootility, the company’s configuration software, which unlocks Tachyon mode for that absurdly low 0.125 ms latency figure. For context, most gaming keyboards operate at 1 kHz polling, meaning they report key states once every millisecond. Wooting’s 8 kHz polling rate is eight times faster.
