Looking for new mousepad

[CptnReflex]

so, believe it or not, the best mouse pad Iv'e ever used in my life was a Steelseries Experience i-2 acid washed glass mouse pad. Thing had my mouse gliding like a hockey puck on a table hockey game air powered thingy but was slightly scratchy. it did eat up mouse feet slightly fast but no faster than this aluminum mousepad right now.

 

anyway, I was wondering in the past 15 years how much better cloth mouse pads have gotten. I am conisdering an LTT store mouse pad in the biggest size I can get that will either cover my entire desk surface or I will have to offset the mouse pad and lift up my other studio monitor with the same thickness of mouse pad that's smaller out of sheer OCD.

 

The funny thing is that I game on 3200 DPI, but I actually have decent aim despite that. I will never be a low dpi gamer but if cloth mousepads are far better today than they used to be back then, I may try one.

 

my question is:

 

are there any hard mouse mats that don't eat up feet at all with superb tracking?

 

are there any quality differences in giant mouse mats such as LTT store, GN mouse mats, Logitech, ROG, razer ETC? sorry Linus but I'm going to buy the best quality mouse mat there is if I go this route. if there is 100% no discernable quality between them I may actually buy your LTT desk mat!

 

would like to look into wrist rests mostly for my new ROG falchion NX brown keeb, but a rest for my g502 would be nice too!

 

 

I will get a new desk eventually (probably a chinese knock off motorized standing desk at one point) then convert this desk into a workbench, but this is what I got for meow. as you can all see my aluminum finish is even wearing out. I didn't mind using a cloth pad for a while but I could tell it was crap quality and gave it to a friend a while back. I actually bought a 3 pack of cheap mouse mats for insulation for my NHT super one originals as a ghetto sound bar with a T amp for my bedroom lol the other one was left over.

 

anyway I have zero issues at all with the size of my mouse pad but if the mouse mats from reputable vendors are really way better than a crap cloth mouse pad then I will probably get the best one on the market, or if the quality is the same across the board but they are still better than crap mouse pads I will probably get an LTT mouse pad even though linus don't like me cause I've trolled him a few times on twitter lol. Steve has my utmost respect, but I watch linus the most, so technically linus deserves my money more lol, unless the ROG mousepad or the other gaming ones out perform by even a small margin, then they deserve my money for making the best one heh

 

Sorry for being nitpicky over here but I figured this was the place to get all the answers to my questions! Thank you in advance everyone and happy turkey day in advance even though I think Canada has a different date for that D:

[Doobeedoo]

Check Skypad if you want a glasspad. I use one.

[IPD]

Been using a "cloth" mousepad with my laser 8200 DPI mouse for years.  No real issues apart from the occasional cleaning needed.

 

Only issues I've ever had with cloth pads were purely from the mechanical mice used on them.  Never had any issues with laser mice.  I'm sure optical is much the same.  I prefer a whole-desk pad.

[CptnReflex]

5 hours ago, Doobeedoo said:

Check Skypad if you want a glasspad. I use one.

I looked it up an it's a kickstarter project still. how'd you get one O_O

 

1 hour ago, IPD said:

Been using a "cloth" mousepad with my laser 8200 DPI mouse for years.  No real issues apart from the occasional cleaning needed.

 

Only issues I've ever had with cloth pads were purely from the mechanical mice used on them.  Never had any issues with laser mice.  I'm sure optical is much the same.  I prefer a whole-desk pad.

I was asking what the best quality desk pad is bar none. I will pay a hundred dollars for one if it's the best one there is. I don't want mass produced china crap with cool graphics, I want either the best cloth pad or I'm going back hard mat.

[Doobeedoo]

29 minutes ago, CptnReflex said:

I looked it up an it's a kickstarter project still. how'd you get one O_O

I got mine as a supporter back on KS yeah.

They're making a new one on KS again. Though older ones if they're out of stock on their website, should be available on Amazon how they state on website.

[CptnReflex]

1 hour ago, Doobeedoo said:

I got mine as a supporter back on KS yeah.

They're making a new one on KS again. Though older ones if they're out of stock on their website, should be available on Amazon how they state on website.

I see! I may actually end up getting one, there's only one on amazon.

 

does it chew through mouse feet at all? Is my g502 feet the right teflon needed as well?

[Doobeedoo]

17 minutes ago, CptnReflex said:

I see! I may actually end up getting one, there's only one on amazon.

 

does it chew through mouse feet at all? Is my g502 feet the right teflon needed as well?

Yeah, there's smaller one and XL one.

I didn't notice them eating feet much really, I used it for a year and still on first feet and they're not worn much and I play a lot of shooters. Had plastic hard pads eat feet faster.

[IPD]

That "mass produced china crap with cool graphics" actually works.  In fact, I doubt very much that there's substantial differences between what I use and what LTT sells.

 

And I paid about 1/3rd for my "whole desk" pad than what the skypad is going for.

 

(pic is from when i first got my keyboard, but shows the detail of the mousepad best).  The graphics may look "fuzzy" but that's not the pad.  The pad pretty much feels like wetsuit material (neoprene).

 

 

[CptnReflex]

51 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

Yeah, there's smaller one and XL one.

I didn't notice them eating feet much really, I used it for a year and still on first feet and they're not worn much and I play a lot of shooters. Had plastic hard pads eat feet faster.

Thank you kindly for the info!

50 minutes ago, IPD said:

That "mass produced china crap with cool graphics" actually works.  In fact, I doubt very much that there's substantial differences between what I use and what LTT sells.

 

And I paid about 1/3rd for my "whole desk" pad than what the skypad is going for.

 

(pic is from when i first got my keyboard, but shows the detail of the mousepad best).  The graphics may look "fuzzy" but that's not the pad.  The pad pretty much feels like wetsuit material (neoprene).

 

 

 

tbh I have a feeling the ltt pad is made in china and no different lol but I was more wondering about the likes of corsair and razer, logitech and such O_O

 

I might start off with the desk pad, see how I like it, then if I'm not happy enough I may get either another hard mat or that glass pad either way. the desk mat would actually solve one of my issues regarding keyboard sliding around and my hands would be less cold touching desk in winter

 

anyway ty for the info so far guys! also your desk mat looks good imo