Tt eSPORTS Meka Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review

PerformanceAs there is no software included with this product, it follows the theme of Tt eSPORTS trying to make a simple keyboard which will produce the best results. This is of course good in lots of ways, but a few extra features wouldn’t of gone a miss. We did also find that the keyboard is incredibly small compared to other popular mechanical gaming keyboards, and as such they have had to crush the keys together a bit more. Unfortunately this meant they dropped the ‘Home’ and ‘End’ keys and while of course they are on the number pad they are not quite as convenient.

This keyboard isn’t really comfortable to use, I found the angle to be too steep when the legs were down, and when you didn’t have them down, the keyboard was too flat. With the keyboard up,it put more strain on my wrists, and in fact, lead my wrists to become slightly sore after only a few minutes of typing and while it was flat I really had problems trying to touch type.

Another concern is how much travel there is in each of the keys, while its good that they are using mechanical key switches, which naturally have more movement, this does seem a bit excessive as they are moving a full half-inch or so, and this also creates a lot of noise. On top of this, you have to put in quite a bit of effort to press each key, and while you can still type incredibly fast, it will take a lot of getting used to, unless you are used to a typewriter. Several other mechanical keyboards on the market have managed to get the same mechanical feel but with each key having a satisfying click instead of a clunk each time it is pressed, making them a lot more pleasant to work on than this keyboard.

In my eyes, missing off the Windows key was also a big mistake, its something I use a lot and certainly increases my productivity, as such I am slightly annoyed that they didn’t include one, yes its not the most essential key for gaming, but it is rather useful when you come out of the game. On top of this, the Shift and ‘/’,?’ key are back to front of the key labels which is fairly annoying. They have also positioned the Delete key on the line of the Function keys which I’m also not too keen on.

However, I do like several things about this keyboard, for instance how the have incorporated the Num. Lock light, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights within the key themselves, instead of having several lights at the top right like most other keyboards. While this in fact makes it easier to see if they are lit up or not for each specific key it also saves a lot of space, and Tt eSPORTS certainly seemed to think that was very important.

On a final performance note, I did find this keyboard very quick indeed, and while it is hard to compare my pure touch typing speeds between two different keyboards (especially when I’ve been used to one for several years), I did still manage to average 2 wpm higher using this keyboard and that was after only a few minutes of use. This leaves me fairly confident in saying with this keyboard you are likely to have a speed advantage over your competitors in any gaming situation which requires the use of a keyboard and of course this achieved partly by the 1000 Hz polling rate.