I Spent $2000 on Gaming Mice To Find The Best One

[00:00] I tested 30 different mice. I tried

[00:01] magnesium shells that weigh [music]

[00:03] almost nothing and high-tech beasts with

[00:05] 8,000 Hz sensors. And I realized that

[00:07] the industry is kind of lying to us. The

[00:09] fastest mouse on paper is often the

[00:10] hardest to control when the match is on

[00:12] the line. So from those 30 mices, I took

[00:14] the best three mice in the world and put

[00:16] them through a 15-hour data audit to

[00:18] find the one that removes every excuse.

[00:20] Two of these are near perfect. Only one

[00:22] is truly endame. So here is what $2,000

[00:24] of testing actually teaches you. Now I

[00:26] am a tactical shooter player. I play

[00:28] Valerant and CS. But to find the best

[00:30] mouse, I had to stop playing matches and

[00:31] start looking at the data. So I use

[00:33] Kovac as a lab and I spent 15 hours

[00:36] doing tracking and flicking tests to see

[00:38] exactly where these mices will fail. Now

[00:40] to push them to the limit, I tested them

[00:42] on a glass pad. Most of you will use

[00:43] cloth pad, but glass is the ultimate

[00:45] stress test. On glass, there is no

[00:47] friction to hide mistakes. If a mouse

[00:48] shape is unstable or the sensor has tiny

[00:51] stutters, you will feel that instantly.

[00:52] Now, I knew that if a mouse stayed

[00:54] consistent in this hard mode

[00:55] environment, it would be a weapon on a

[00:57] normal cloth pad. So, this audit forced

[00:59] me [music] to look past the weight. I

[01:00] had to look at how my hand actually

[01:02] grips the mouse and how the signals are

[01:04] processed inside the shell. But before

[01:05] we talk about the tech, we have to also

[01:07] talk about the trap that almost every

[01:09] big brand falls into. And I'm going to

[01:11] talk about safe shapes. Now, I spend a

[01:13] lot of my $2,000 on the industry

[01:15] standards, the Logitech Gro Super Light

[01:17] and the Razer Vipers. These are great

[01:19] mice, but they have one problem. They

[01:21] use safe shapes. They are rounded and

[01:23] curved to fit everyone. But that also

[01:25] means that they don't really lock anyone

[01:26] in. In a high stake duel, your fingers

[01:28] can shift a tiny bit on a rounded mouse.

[01:30] This is where the OP1 shape is

[01:32] different. It uses flat sides. This

[01:34] creates what I call the pincher force.

[01:36] On a rounded mouse, your thumb and pinky

[01:38] are pushing against the curve. If you

[01:39] squeeze hard, the mouse wants to tilt or

[01:41] rotate. On flat sides, your finger push

[01:44] straight against each other. 100% of

[01:45] your grip strand goes into moving the

[01:47] mouse, not fighting the shape. Now, this

[01:49] will give you a biomechanical anchor. It

[01:51] ensures your hand lands in the exact

[01:53] same spot every time you pick it up. So

[01:55] once you have a shape that anchors your

[01:56] hand, the talk moves to speed, but speed

[01:58] on a box isn't really always the same as

[02:01] speed on the screen. The industry is

[02:02] racing for that 8K Hz polling rate. They

[02:05] tell us that faster sensors is the only

[02:06] way to win. But during my search, I

[02:08] found that click latency is just as

[02:10] important as sensor speed. I tested the

[02:12] final mouse ULX at 8K Hz and in my

[02:14] experience, it feels inconsistent. I

[02:16] felt tiny stutters and ruined the smooth

[02:18] feeling of my 480 Hz monitor. Felt like

[02:20] the tag was being pushed faster than the

[02:22] software could handle. Then I tried the

[02:24] Endgame Gear OP18K. Now this mouse uses

[02:27] something called SPT switch logic. Think

[02:30] of it like this. Most mice wait for a

[02:32] signal to reach a certain point before

[02:33] they count as a click. The OP1 uses a

[02:35] second signal to confirm that the click

[02:37] happened immediately. It makes your shot

[02:39] fit telepathic. You might have that AK

[02:41] sensor, but if your click is slow, you

[02:43] still lose the D. Now this creates a

[02:45] dilemma. Do you take the 50 g wire mouse

[02:47] with the best ST or do you sacrifice

[02:48] weight for the freedom of wireless? Now

[02:50] the OP18K is the raw performance king.

[02:53] It is wired and is 10 g lighter than the

[02:55] wireless version. In a world where we

[02:56] fight over two grams, 10 grams [music]

[02:58] is a huge deal. But on a fast setup, a

[03:00] cable is a problem. Even with a great

[03:02] bungee, a cable is like a spring. When

[03:04] you flick left, the spring is loose.

[03:05] When you flick to the right edge of the

[03:07] pad, the spring gets tight. This is

[03:08] variable resistance. It means the weight

[03:10] of your mouse actually feels different

[03:12] depending on where is on the pad. On

[03:13] cloth, you don't notice it. On glass

[03:15] you feel every single millimeter of that

[03:17] pull. Now, the wireless OP1 is heav at

[03:19] 58 g, but it gives you a movement

[03:21] parity. It feels exactly the same 100%

[03:23] of, the, time,, no matter, where, is, it, on

[03:25] the desk. And for me, that consistency

[03:27] is worth a 10 grand penalty. But there

[03:29] is one more thing that ruins

[03:30] performance. [music] The coating. Many

[03:32] mice like the ULX are slippery. You have

[03:34] to use a grip tape, but grip sometimes

[03:36] add width. If you buy a small mouse and

[03:37] add tape, you just ruin the shape you

[03:39] paid for. Now, the OP1 uses a chalky

[03:41] coating that sticks to your hand as it

[03:43] get warm. You don't really need a tape

[03:44] unless you really kind of want it. The

[03:46] shape kind of stays poor all the time.

[03:48] But before I tell you which one is my

[03:50] main, we have to fix the software. Most

[03:51] mice ship with the settings that

[03:53] actually make you slower. There are two

[03:54] settings you need to change immediately.

[03:56] Most player leave this on default, and

[03:58] it's a mistake in my opinion. First

[03:59] motion scene. Just turn it off. This

[04:01] feature tries to make your movement look

[04:03] smooth on your graph. But the smoothing

[04:04] adds a tiny little bit of delay. It

[04:06] makes your aim feel like floaty, if that

[04:08] makes [music] sense. After 8,000 hours

[04:09] I don't really want smooth. I want draw

[04:11] input. I want the sensor to report

[04:13] exactly what my hand does. The

[04:15] millisecond it happens. Now the second

[04:17] setting is something exclusively to the

[04:19] OP1. It's called GXP mode. Now this you

[04:22] want to have it enabled. It works with

[04:23] that SPDT logic. It basically removes

[04:26] the safety delay that most mice have to

[04:28] prevent double clicking. Also you have a

[04:29] lot of other settings like sensor angle

[04:31] tuning if you want to play around with

[04:33] that. It's actually kind of useful, but

[04:35] if you want to switch mice is a lot, I

[04:36] don't really recommend it that much. And

[04:38] you also have angle snapping and ripple

[04:40] control. Now in my opinion, I would just

[04:42] stay away from these settings because

[04:43] they will just teach you bad aiming. But

[04:45] if you aren't ready to spend like $150

[04:47] on this mice, do what I call renting a

[04:50] shape. Buy like a $40 or a $60 clone

[04:52] like an Attack Shark R3. Use it for a

[04:54] week. If you hate the shape, you only

[04:56] lost like $40. If you love it, then you

[04:58] can upgrade to the premium version with

[05:00] a better coding and a stabilized

[05:02] firmware. Now, with the tech optimized

[05:03] and the finalist ready, I finally had to

[05:05] choose. Only one mouse removed every

[05:07] SQS. [music] Now, after 30 mice and

[05:09] $2,000, it came down to a choice between

[05:11] the final mouse ULX, the OP18K, and the

[05:14] OP1 Wireless. Now, the ULX is an amazing

[05:16] piece of art, but the shape didn't lock

[05:18] my hand in, if that makes sense. It's

[05:19] basically a smaller Viper V2 Pro from

[05:22] Razer. Also, the fact that the mouse is

[05:24] super expensive and Final Mouse is kind

[05:26] of scummy with their drops, I wouldn't

[05:27] really recommend it that much. Now, the

[05:29] OP18K is the fastest mouse I've ever

[05:32] used, [music] but the cable pull on a

[05:33] fast pad was a distraction I couldn't

[05:35] ignore. So, the winner of my audit is

[05:37] the Endgame Gear OP1 4K V2. It isn't the

[05:40] lightest, but of course, you can mod it

[05:41] with a lot of stuff that you can find on

[05:43] the internet to make it like 40 g if

[05:45] you're really into that. It isn't also

[05:47] the fastest on a spec sheet, but the

[05:48] flat sides anchor my hand better than

[05:50] any other mouse. The build is solid, and

[05:52] the wireless freedom gives me total

[05:54] certainty. Now, my search for the

[05:55] perfect mouse wasn't about finding the

[05:57] lowest weight. It was about finding the

[05:59] setup that stayed out of my way. So

[06:01] stop chasing the gram count. Look for

[06:03] the shape that actually anchors you. and

[06:05] firmware that gives you the rout.