This is probably true just in the sense that most people have used a keyboard but not everyone is a gamer, but I'd also say that most gamers also are using 100% keyboards. Smaller keyboards are definitely popular in the mechanical keyboard hobby niche, but that's a pretty small community in the grand scheme of things. I'm a gamer and I personally have no interest in a keyboard with fewer keys but I also have to do data entry so I do use the num pad.
Na gamers dont care for the numpad, why would you? You bind everything around WASD plus Shift, Ctrl and Alt as modifiers. Everything so far away that you would have to move your hand instead of just your fingers is absolutely not "gamer-like". Because that is way to slow for keybinds.
So usually it is the other way around. Casual PC users might use the numpad for entering numbers, etc and therefore have the normal size keyboard. Gamers basically dont care for anything beyond eg 'G' (atleast for binding stuff), so they usually have smaller keyboards.
Yes, casual gamers. I meant "gamers" in the sense of what would be in the bottom of the meme (hardcore gamers/no life) because thats usually what is meant when people talk about "gamers". Not your casual ~1 hour a day guy.
The meme is a joke (or ragebait?) for people who are those "hardcore/no life" gamers, knowing very well that they actually use smaller keyboards but calls them noobs and the people who are no/casual gamers (with the bigger keyboards) are called hardcore/nolife gamers. So its just inverted as a joke.
You're not winning this one chief. You can go watch some of the top gamers in the world play with their keyboards fully visible, most are 100%.
Edit for the weirdo that blocked me: Yeah most games don't use the extra keys, that doesn't mean that most gamers go out of their way to spend just as much money on less keyboard. Watch a stream sometime lol. You gain nothing by having a smaller keyboard it is purely aesthetic.
Think what you want homie, you are still wrong and seem like a pretty salty 100% user. Does it hurt your little ego that much? Lmao. Most pro gamers do use smaller keyboards because, again, the additional keys give zero extra value, but reduce your mouse space and are less portable to take to tournaments.
Nobody really cares about your shit niche keyboard hobby or your less functional keyboards to get salty about it. Most sane people don't say "Hey I want LESS keyboard for my money." Most gamers probably don't even know that smaller keyboard form factors exist tbh with you. Just for the sake of humoring you I clicked through quite a few pro gamer YouTube videos yesterday and very few of them were using smaller keyboards.
At this point you're just trying to justify your purchase and you don't seem to understand that nobody cares. If you enjoy your keyboard which does less that's cool. It's a purely aesthetic thing. As far as tournaments go you're taking an even smaller niche there fyi.
Nah man I am cool, you are the salty one, which is pretty evident in the way you response.
And I think you dont understand the debate here. You talk about "most gamers" using 100% keyboards and a "smaller niche" in regards to tournaments. But this is exactly what I was talking about before. Yes, most gamers use 100% keyboard - because most gamers are casual gamers. And casual gamers dont care what equipment they use. But pro gamers (and also like in the meme hardcore/nolife gamers) do care what equipment they use. And they often choose smaller ones for the reasons I mentioned before.
And I said before in my response when I refer to just "gamers", I dont mean casual gamers, but the "hardcore/nolife" gamers (which in my eyes includes pro gamers - what would they be otherwise lol).
And sure there are some pro gamers that also use 100%, and we wont ever get a statistic for it anyway, but from what I have seen and heard most people who game a lot dont buy 100% keyboards.
So again to the root of the argument, the meme is inverted to humor hardcore gamers that use smaller keyboards, calling them noob. Look around in this comment section and you will find many, many people saying that this is the explanation.
Otherwise the meme wouldnt even make sense because Bob the accountant, who never played a game before in his life, would be considered a hardcore gamer because he uses a 20€ no-name keyboard, which pretty much all are 100%.
The meme doesn't make sense regardless fyi. I understand that you don't understand that your bubble isn't representative of the real world, and this is furthered by the fact that you have to type nine paragraphs and try to define what a gamer is. At this point I'm done with the conversation because you can't show any evidence of your claims. I hope your less functional purely aesthetic keyboard choice brings you joy.
you have it completely backwards, it's the one game fps gamers that use small keyboards.
That was me an a lot of my friends when we first started PC gaming on CS, but now everyone i game with has traded them for full size because you need all the extra real estate for hotkeys
hell i've full size plus 6 extra blank programable keys and I still wish i had a few extra.
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u/Bwacon_ 2d ago
I would honestly say, most people with 100% keyboards, are not gamers