What is anti-ghosting?

[Gavinhenderson5]

I am looking into buying a keyboard and almost all keyboards say that they have anti-ghosting and I was wondering what that actually means?

[L.E.D]

Anti-ghosting allows you to press any number of keys on the keyboard with out it beeping or interrupting you in anyway, If you tried it on a keyboard without this feature and press 5 (I believe it is 5) keys it will begin to beep at you, 

 

That is what Anti-Ghosting is in a nutshell, 

 

Hope it helped

 

Nathan

[vkadurin]

i think it allows you to press a lot of keys simultaneously.

[Glenwing]

Ghosting = Phantom Key Blocking

 

[XiaoPigs]

Anti Ghosting allows you  to press a certain number of keys like five(common limitation of USB) without any of the keys being undetected.

[winny3141]

When something ghosts in computers, it means that there is some kind of latency that is going on between components in a certain piece of hardware. For keyboards, as the other people who responded to this thread have articulated, is where you can press a high number of keys and all of them will register. The type of keyboards that have the best anti-ghosting technology are mechanical keyboards. I personally have the Razer BlackWidow 2013 Gaming Keyboard with  Chery MX Blue Switches.

 

Hope that Helps!

 

- winny3141 :D

[jrchristian510]

The most common terms you hear are anti-ghosting and the amount of key rollover.

To sum it very easy is just.... the however amount of keys you press/hold/release are registered by the OS in correct order/released/pressed/held

When buying a keyboard make sure its "100% Anit-Ghost" and has a high rollover than 6 (which is standard on USB).

 

Tip: if the product pages doesn't say the amount of key rollover or NKRO, it usually means they are just using the same standard 6 that can be found on all/any USB keyboard.

[MunsonedForLife]

How many keys does one person actually need to press at one time anyways? lol

[jrchristian510]

Logic would say 10 for the amount of fingers you have lol.  But also consider if you use macro's and those keys be used while other keys are being pressed. Rollover also has to do with if you hold a certain key like CTRL, then press other keys as well.