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In gaming n-key rollover is much more important. Rollover is the total number of simultaneous keypresses the SoC can send to the computer. N-key means that the

• clarry 8y ago
  When gaming, I usually have one hand on the keyboard, the other on the mouse. My hand has only 5 fingers. NKRO couldn't matter less.
  • pard68 8y ago
    I agree. Especially the games I play, slower paced single player games, n-key rollover is not needed at all. That said, it's the big seller for video game centric keyboards. Just pointing out that a lot of high-end gaming keyboards have other things that they focus on more.
  • brokenmachine 8y ago
    On some keyboards it matters which keys you happen to be pressing at the same time, depending on how the matrix is laid out. So it might be only 2KRO, depending on which keys you're pressing. Just unlucky if those keys happen to be "W" and "A".
  • animal531 8y ago
    In the old days of scan codes the left hand side of the keyboard had (in general) shorter keycodes than the right hand side, so could accomodate more keys being pressed. People started playing fps with the big keypad, but you'd often run into issues where you could only use 2 or 3 keys at a time. Several games such as Duke Nukem etc came with utilities in which you could check if your specific keys would lock the keyboard; after that the default movement keys switched to wasd. For myself I preferred to use 1 finger per key, so I switched to escf.
    • clarry 8y ago
      Which finger goes on which key?