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Andrew Baisden
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What Mouse Mat do you use for coding?

I have been using the QCK Cloth Gaming Mouse Pad. It is like a knife going through butter it is just so soft and smooth. I have the large one at home on my desk and I have a small one that I can use when travelling. It is so much better than just using a mouse on a desk as it can scratch the surface and it is also noisy when you are moving it around.

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Nathan S.

A mouse mat with shortcuts for pyhton

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tofubrian • Edited


This is my mouse pad, what do you think?
I bought it from here, amzn.to/3gaMmYK

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Andrew Baisden

Dope 🀣

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Braydon Harris • Edited

Just upgraded to a Fender Heavy lol

fender

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Ben Sinclair

I have a Spigen "Regnum" "gaming" mouse mat. I like it because it's quiet, it feels nice on my wrist and it stops getting dirt on the mouse which happens all too often if I don't use a mat at all.

It's... fine.

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leob • Edited

Funniest topic ever :-) ... I use the back of an old physics syllabus as my mouse mat, and then to prop up my monitor (or make it higher, actually) I use 2 scuba manuals. Whatever works! :-)

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John

I use the glorious 3xl extended. It's pretty a pretty absurd $50 24in x 48in mat but you'll never run out of space for all that fortnite...I mean coding you are doing.

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Elliot Derhay • Edited

Since I started using laser mice years ago, I actually haven't cared very much about the surface my mouse is on. I don't know if that's bad or not, but it's how I've handled things lol.

At work though, it may not make much difference. I currently have a desk that's a bit smaller, so all of the space has become multipurpose pretty much and I'm just careful to not leave any spills/condensation or crumbs on it (although that last bit is kind of in my nature anyway).

I do still sometimes wonder if I should get one though... πŸ€”

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SurrealTheCoder

I use a CoolerMaster MP510, super solid thing, I get some solid glide and control using it.

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Justin Hunter

I used no mouse pad until people started complaining while I was on Zoom calls πŸ˜‚

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Tom Hudson

I've been using the same mousepad as you for at least 4 years now. Love it.