I used to press alt gr with my right thumb, but cannot anymore. That is a problem when you use (especially in croatia) alt+v or alt-f/g () or alt-q (\). There is couple of mentions of smaller ctrl/win/alt keys on the left side but that is not the case or a problem, but the right side is. The space bar is actually very long (14cm vs 11,2cm of a normal logitech keyboard) especially on the right side. What will take a bit more to adjust is the placement of the alt gr (right alt) key. I can confirm that the escape key is placed a bit to the left but in this few days time I have completely adjusted, it isn’t a big deal at all. There is much talk about placement of the space bar and escape key. So my conclusion regarding ghosting is this: this keyboard will put up with pretty much any key combination except ctrl+r+something(1). If you have three hands this can be very useful. This works easily, even without alt because I was pressing print screen at the same time so you can press q and a or whatever at the same time. This is the infamous CTRL+R+W which doesn’t register. I used the same program to determine this fact. Just as a little sidenote, my msi wind’s keyboard registers up to 12 (yes you read it correctly – 12) key presses at once. So if you are really heroin-like dependant on ctrl maybe you can buy some other keyboard. So for example if you use shift for crouch (I dunno why would anyone use ctrl to be honest) the keyboard will register this shift+w+e+r+a+s+x or any other similar combination. If you’re like me and don’t rely on ctrl that much every other key combination works without problems. Using this program I have determined that only ctrl has only a problem with R+something.
I got nifty program called KeyScan which can tell which keys are registered when pressed. There is much talk that pressing ctrl+w+r doesn’t work (reloading while moving forwards crouched). Bad keyboards register just a couple of key presses at once, good ones register more then couple. This is just a wrong word to describe a problem when you press multiple keys at once. One of the main “problems” I read about in the reviews/forums about this keyboard is the famous “ghosting”. Good thing is that they have a threshold for tactile feedback so the typing doesn’t feel like typing on a sponge or worse, on pack of wet towels. Keys have similar feel to the razer’s tarantula which is good, that means that they are softer than microsoft natural multimedia keys and logitech’s diNovo.
It has good build and nothing less, you don’t have to worry about it. It isn’t built as bomb proof as razer’s tarantula (for 2x the price here), but it is not worse either. The keyboard itself is sturdy build and not that heavy (as other reviews imply) but heavy and unmoveable enough. The solution this keyboard uses is in my opinion great and should be used on other keyboards as well. The solution is a keyboard without numeric pad because I can have centered keyboard with regards to the monitor and mouse close at hand. In reverse case if I want the keyboard centered then I have to move the mouse further to the right so it gets very uncomfortable to do anything serious. I just prefer somewhat narrower keyboards (ie numpadless) because I hate having keyboard off-center to the monitor if I want mouse not too far to my body. The main reason I bought this keyboard is because of the removable keypad. I won’t bother you much with the facts you probably obtained easily in other reviews as I prefer writing my reviews just with the information other reviews missed.
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