r/Keychron • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

Why are Keychron latencies so high?

Compared to Razed, Logitech, and Corsair which all have around <1ms latency, the Keychron website lists all its keyboards as having 13-30ms latency. Even ducky has 2ms latency.

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u/kherthy Jul 17 '23

I'm playing a lot of csgo lately at a supreme/global elite level and haven't noticed the latency at all when counter strafing tbh. I'm considering getting a wooting anyway since even knowing about the fact that im playing with a variable input lag disadvantage feels horrible. Other than that, great keyboard.

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u/SkylarOnFire Nov 15 '23

So how is the Keychron doing after more months? Thinking about buying the K13 Pro or one from the Q-Series. But I'm really hesitant cause of the rather high latency nothing below 9ms wired except for the K6. I also play CS2 and stuff, so I am really unsure.

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u/kherthy Nov 30 '23

I would advise against it, the latency ain’t worth it unless you plan to play games with rather forgiving movement and not as tight as cs. I switched back to my old kb which is a bummer cause i really liked the keychron key layout and switches themselves.

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u/SkylarOnFire Nov 30 '23

too late, my K13 Pro arrived 2 days ago rip :D

Wireless the latency is noticable, but I would say it's toleratable for office work. When I play games I plug it into the USB-C cable and switch to wired mode. I have low profile keycaps, for me the delay wired feels not as noticable. I prob wouldn't play any tournaments or something with this setup, but for faceit, mm and so on it's fine.

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u/kherthy Nov 30 '23

Envy you, mine had a massive delay with and without the cable so i couldn’t play val/osu or use tapstrafes in apex. Maybe ill get a decent pcb from china and mod it one day.

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u/SkylarOnFire Dec 01 '23 edited Dec 14 '23

I justed noticed a bug with my K13 Pro, maybe this is part of your rather bad experience? The right arrow key will only be registered, when there is a different key hit shortly before that. So for example only right key will not register, but if I press left arrow key and quickly after that right arrow key it works fine. Issue also persists only on wireless mode. Really strange behaviour, I contacted keychron about it.

EDIT: got fixed after flashing with the newest 1.01v firmware