- I got a Wooting 60HE.
How did I get it?
(men struggling)
Anyway, let's open it up and take a look
at the super cool Lekker analog switches
that are in this guy.
Wooting makes some pretty good stuff,
but they're mostly known for using analog switches
and for having, basically,
the fastest keyboard you're gonna try,
or one of the fastest, at the very least.
There's basically zero latency.
Sub one millisecond is what they like to say.
How do I open this from either side?
This is Sammy's, so I want to be a little careful.
I don't want to break any packaging,
but let's take a look at what we get in the box itself.
We have got our keyboard.
It says "Take Control" on the cool wrist strap.
I've actually seen these before.
And then we've got this little greetings from Wooting
that I'm gonna open.
I'm sorry, Sammy.
I'll try so hard not to ruin anything for you.
We've got a little greeting card.
That's super cute.
It's a really minor thing, but it's just cute.
When you buy it and you open it up,
it makes you feel just a little nice about your purchase.
But I'll try to put that back for Sammy,
since it's got nothing else in there.
We've got a quick start guide
that you can use a QR code to access.
Well, that's pretty handy.
As much as I don't like to gate things with phones,
yeah, it's less environmental destruction.
And speaking of which,
we've got a plastic little protector here.
(cardboard falling)
What just fell?
Oh, cardboard.
What else do we have?
We've got a couple of extra switches in here.
So our Wooting 60HE is hot swappable.
So, if you need to swap any of those out,
you can do it while it's hot, no problem.
I'm guessing this is a part of the wrist rest to attach it,
a little rubber piece here with some screws.
And then, what else do we have?
I don't know what these screws are for.
probably part of the keyboard.
That's actually kind of nice.
You know, you don't usually strip them
when you're taking it apart and putting it back together,
but it can happen.
So, yeah, I'm actually really impressed
that they sent it with extra screws.
Goodbye, box.
Now it comes with two extra Lekker switches.
These Lekker switches are basically like a normal switch,
except for, instead of any leaves or pins,
it's just a Hall effect sensor.
What that does though is lets them be analog.
You can move it a little bit forward,
if your character just wants to walk,
but you could also do full-tilt forward, if you wanna run.
So you can do that with your keyboard now.
These were actually
in the last Wooting keyboard we checked out,
the Two HE.
I don't think our firmware was working very well
and so we're gonna give it a much better shot this time.
The nice thing about the 60HE is
that it is obviously a 60% keyboard,
so it is much smaller.
That kind of layout and size is
also just a lot more popular right now.
People realize that
not a lot of them actually need their F-row
as long as they have a function key,
and a good chunk of people don't need a NUM pad,
or at least not an attached one.
If you do feel like you buy a smaller keyboard
like a TKL, 60%, 65%, whatever,
at any point, you can buy a separate NUM pad, plug it in,
and you should be good to go, if you need that,
like, for bank statements, or Excel entries,
or anything like that.
The nice thing about this though is that it's just tiny.
It's tiny, tiny, tiny,
and we get that big gamer feel from it.
I will be frank, I don't know why they have a wrist strap.
There's a lot of things I do get about this keyboard
that are actually really cool and great,
and the wrist strap kind of looks neat.
I guess, at the end of the day,
you can just choose to not install it,
if that's what you'd prefer.
But it's the whole experience.
We want to get this whole thing.
Yeah, it's for that hardcore gamer feel.
And then we just screw it together,
and then, boom, you've got a wrist strap.
Are you making sure I do it right,
because it's your keyboard?
- I don't know what's going on.
(laughing)
- Bye, Sammy.
- [Sven] It's like a Wiimote.
- Yeah, it's like a Wiimote.
While we're looking at the back though,
I'm gonna check out what it says here, as well as the feet.
They're not adjustable,
so you're not gonna get one, two, three stage feet
or anything like that,
but they've got four rubber pads here
and it should do just fine.
It's not the heftiest keyboard, it's about 605 grams.
But the reality is,
with something like this that you want small
and a wrist strap to keep it ready to go,
you kind of want it to be a little light.
It's a plastic shell.
There is a steel plate in here,
so if you want to change that out, feel free.
That's kind of the nice thing about the Wooting 60HE
is that, because it's a 60%,
there are a ton of 60% cases
that you can just pop it in something else,
and it'll probably sound and look a lot nicer,
not that they've done a bad job.
I actually kind of like the little Wooting crown logo.
One nice thing that I didn't really point out is,
on the back, it says, "We made the Wooting 60HE for you.
Please take good care of her."
Oh, that's really cute.
I'm not gonna try to read those,
because they're all hand script and I can't read it.
Yeah, it looks good.
And if you like the black and yellow aesthetic,
then, you know what?
Hey, this is maybe the keyboard for you.
For example, this is a 65%, so it won't quite fit,
but we just built the TOFU65 2.0 for a different video.
Think of the power and capability of a keyboard like this
in a nice, solid aluminum case like this.
Oh, my God, I bet you it's just fantastic,
and you can do that if you want to.
We're not gonna do it today,
but it's really nice having that option.
(keyboard clicking)
You know, in just initial impressions,
it looks and sounds pretty decent.
We're gonna do a little more thorough typing test
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Probably the best feature, at least in my opinion,
is the fact that their utility software is called Wootility,
which is just an absolutely splendid name.
You can do a lot with it.
You can change the RGB, you can change the brightness,
you can change the actuation points on all the switches.
You can customize it to whatever you want.
Do you want your switches to actuate
once you hit basically almost nothing, like 0.1 millimeter?
Normally it's your mouse, but you never know.
Maybe it's some weird game and you've gotta just mash a key.
You can do that, so that as soon as you let off the press,
it's ready to go again.
You don't have to release the key all the way
for it to register that it's ready to go.
So you can go, just stay right on the bottom there
and just smash it as fast as you can.
Luckily, button mashing is
no longer as much of a thing in games
now that QTs are kind of dead,
but they still come up every now and then.
Now as for this keyboard, is it even detected?
Yep, okay.
Now what I really need to know is,
how is this profile working?
Digital profile, analog profile.
What if I change the brightness now?
There's a Saved to Keyboard, but it's grayed out.
Like, it definitely changes.
Like, as soon as I change something...
Find device, here, let me find devices.
Yes, 60HE, Connect.
Okay, on Wootility Web, you have to give permission.
That's fine.
Device Found.
Update.
Sure.
While this is updating,
as you could see before,
there is definitely RGB on the keyboard
and that's really nice,
because while the key caps are ABS,
they're nice, shine through ABS,
so it's really easy to see the RGB right through them.
That's kind of a...
It's a surprising sticking point for a lot of people.
They ask me, you know,
"How do I get key caps where I can see them with the RGB?
Like, I wanna see the letters and the legend lit up?"
And, yeah, it's just shine through keycaps.
They're not that hard to find.
It's just sometimes harder
to find a really nice quality set.
Yeah, it just says, "You need to give permissions
to the bootloader called 'Wooting Restore.'"
And I click the Give Permissions button,
and then it's like it wants to connect to device,
Wooting Restore, paired,
and I say, "Okay, connect."
Maybe I have to continue again.
We were trying it with the web Wootility,
and it didn't work very well,
but once we downloaded the proper app, set it up,
updated all the firmware and all that,
it seems good to go now.
If I go back from Performance to Color
and I change the brightness off,
and these off half,
half means half, and full means full.
Jelly, what's Jelly like?
Oh, that's cool, it's like Ripple, but a little different.
That's sweet.
You know, I'm not crazy about this.
I would probably just leave it on, like, no effects
and keep it on just plain RGB
or I'd set it to a primary color.
We're just gonna set it to Wave.
And the Performance mode though,
this is super cool.
Here's where we've got our Lekker switch
and then you can set the per key actuation.
So, if you only want, like,
your W for moving forward
to actuate at the very top,
you can set it to just W, which is super cool.
Left click on the keys to select them,
or while holding down left click, select multiple keys,
move the actuation slider
to give them custom actuation points.
And then Rapid Trigger dynamically actuates
and resets your keys
based on your intention to press or release the key.
It starts and ends after the actuation point.
Tachyon Mode optimizes your keyboard for input speed.
When enabled, every keypress responds as fast as possible.
The RGB effects are disabled.
Analog stability might be affected.
Okay, well I don't want to affect analog stability,
but let's say you don't want to set actuation points,
you just want basically one of the fastest keyboards
on the market,
so that you can't blame your equipment anymore when you die,
you can only blame yourself.
You missed that shot.
It's not, because the keyboard or the mouse sucks.
One nice thing too is,
it comes with a bunch of different profiles.
It comes set up with just Typing, Rapid,
Racing, and Mixed Movement.
I don't understand why Mixed Movement is a thing, but sure.
I'm just gonna stick with Typing Profiles,
because it seems pretty typical across the board
at 0.8 millimeter actuation for us.
The cool thing too is
that this thing comes with eight megabytes
of onboard memory.
So you can save all of these profiles to the keyboard.
So, if you take it and you go somewhere else,
it's all still set up exactly the way you like it.
This thing does come stock
with a bunch of Poron and EPDM foam layers,
and... (keyboard clicking)
It doesn't sound bad.
The Space bar and some of the stabilizers
could use a little bit of work,
but it's not awful by any means
and I don't think that you, like,
actually need to update them yourself.
I think that if you want to just buy this
and leave it stock,
that is perfectly acceptable,
and it's going to be surprisingly impressive
to a lot of people.
Many of you, if you're not used to a 60% or 65% keyboard,
for anything that's not on the board, that's missing,
you can hit this function key
and it basically acts as an extra layer of key presses.
So, for instance, I don't have an F5 to refresh.
I'm gonna hit Function + 5 and that works as F5 basically.
Let's go... (keyboard clicking)
104 or 96%.
It's not my fastest.
It's actually definitely one of the slower tests I've done.
And you know what,
while a lot of you are going to buy this
specifically for the analog switches,
one thing to remember, even though this is a hot swap board,
you can't just pop in tactiles, if you like tactiles.
The Lekker switchers are linear.
That's kind of on purpose,
so that you can have all of that play in the actuation force
and, like, the analog movement
that you want to experience is
only really gonna be available properly, at least,
in a linear switch.
If you like linears, that's great,
but if you're really into tactiles or clickies,
this thing honestly might not be for you.
That's kind of a really big deal for a lot of people.
But for gamers, everyone seems to love
really light, linear switches,
to have that instant kind of response.
I'm really into tactiles right now,
so it's not so great for me
as is evidenced by this typing test.
But that's not why you're buying the board,
you're not buying the board for that.
So let's play some games.
And look at that.
I'm going like eight miles an hour,
nine miles an hour, whatever,
and then I press it all the way,
and... (engine revving)
So, like, pedal to the metal.
Aw, man, and it's such a big deal
for racing games without a controller.
When you're pressing keys, instead of using a thumbstick,
a lot of the time, pressing down A or D
to turn left to right,
you're going to do a full turn, or a full turn,
so you're just tapping it a lot of the time
to try to get that really smooth curve in a racing game.
Whereas with this, you actually have the full capability
to just turn just a little bit.
You'd have to play with the actuation points quite a bit
to get it exactly where you want it,
but with the turns, it's definitely a lot more difficult
to just tap it a little bit while you're playing.
But, yeah, it's honestly working
and it's honestly really, really cool.
I don't think I've ever wanted to feature more
in keyboards just all the time.
I don't know how much I'd actually use it personally
when it comes to racing games or fighting games,
or, what else do I use a controller for?
That's pretty much it.
Anything involving shooting,
I'm basically keyboard and mouse.
Well, it definitely works.
The RGB looks good,
it feels and sounds pretty decent,
especially for a keyboard
that's more of a gaming-centric keyboard.
At $175 though, while it might not be the keyboard for me,
it can definitely be the keyboard for you,
especially when you're comparing it
to more other gaming brands like Corsair or Logitech.
Honestly, I would buy the Wooting every time,
if those are your options.
There are plenty of other options,
if you want a really nice and "fancy" mechanical keyboard.
But the reality is, if you want analog switches,
this is one of your only options, if not the only option.
So, yes, I'm gonna say
that I would totally buy the Wooting 60HE.
If it's kind of what you're looking for,
I think it's not a bad buy, and go for it.
It's a pretty cool keyboard.
Thanks for watching, this is "Short Circuit."
If you wanna watch another "Short Circuit" about keyboards,
we did the KiiBOOM recently.
That thing was really cool.
It was clear, see-through, pretty similar price too.