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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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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... 🤔

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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 😂

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Tom Hudson

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

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Edmundo Sanchez

I'll weight in by saying that there is no such thing as codong gear (specially not mouse matts), and you should learn to use the mouse less to the degree of not thinking what mause matt is better for coding.

For the record, I do have a gaming matt that covers my desk, but I also work on a couch with no kouse or on the dinner table with out a matt, makes no difference.

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I have a desk mat because when you have lots of screens you can knock everything off your desk to get from one end to the other... Brilliant!

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Fernando B 🚀

Don't need mats for my trackball mouse lol. Logitech M570 for any one wondering. Using it for nearly 7~ years.

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AlphaSierra

A lot more dirtier version of the one that you are using ;)

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George C. G. Barbosa

I use this one from Aukey. Huge and cheap.

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Ben Sinclair

Can you let me know which size that one is? I think I might follow your lead...

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Ben Sinclair

That's less of a mouse pad and more of a capybara pad.

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Daniel Lintott

Same one that I have, great to have such a large work area!

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Fernando B 🚀

Unrelated question, keyboard model, keys?

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George C. G. Barbosa • Edited

It is an old Aukey model. I looked for it on amazon again and did not find it there.
The keys are PBS double shot, maybe this model.
But keyboard + keys did not cost more than 50 bucks in total.

My keyboard looks a lot like this.

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Andrew Baisden

Wow mine is large and yours makes it look small 🤣 Amazing.

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Rigo B Castro

Logitech MX Argo, the best to prevent carpal tunnel.