TOP 10 Gaming Keyboards for FPS 2017 - Choice of pro gamers

TOP 10 Gaming Keyboards for FPS 2017 - Choice of pro gamers

November 05, 2017

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Best gaming keyboards for CS:GO and Overwatch, as well as PUBG and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. Total data of 360 pro gamers (in FPS), distribution: CS:GO (51,39%), Overwatch (31,11%), PUBG (9,72%) and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (7,78%)

The most popular brands of gaming keyboards:

TOP 10 Gaming Keyboards for FPS 2017 - Choice of pro gamers

Pro players prefer a variety of manufacturers. It is possible, perhaps, to distinguish the four Logitech, Corsair, Razer and SteelSeries - but there is no obvious superiority for any brand.

Keyboards of pro gamers - switches

TOP 10 Gaming Keyboards for FPS 2017 - Choice of pro gamers

Switches are the most important part of any keyboard. All the switches on the graph refer to the mechanical switch, except for the “membrane” column. Cherry MX is in the lead, usually professional gamers prefer “Cherry MX Black”, “Cherry MX Red”, and, oddly enough, “Cherry MX Brown”.

Notable popularity among pro gamers got the Romer-G switches from Logitech, which, respectively, are used only in Logitech keyboards. In general, Logitech, Razer and SteelSeries switch to using their switches, instead of continuing to embed Cherry MX everywhere, which is reflected in the preferences of pro gamers.

TOP-10 gaming mice (FPS):

SteelSeries 6Gv2 - 9.2% First place - SteelSeries 6Gv2, this is the most popular keyboard among professional gamers from our study. Interestingly, the first place is occupied by a classical mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Black switches. This massive keyboard has no programmable keys and no backlight, which is not surprising because it was released back in 2010!

Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum - 6.7% Mechanical keyboard with switches Romer-G.

XTRFY K2-RGB - 6.1% Keyboard Xtrfy K2-RGB takes the third place. This is the only keyboard of our top using Kailh switches.

Logitech G Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Fnatic Gear Rush Pro

HyperX Alloy FPS

ZOWIE CELERITAS II KEYBOARD

Corsair STRAFE RGB

Razer BlackWidow Chroma


This article is out of date. Always fresh information and statistics about keyboards, here: esportset.com/devices/keyboard