Mousepound64 Review

Critics call it "arthritis speedrun." Users call it "flow state."

The device was first conceptualized in 2021 by an exiled industrial designer known only as "Vexel." Tired of switching between a Planck keyboard and a Logitech MX Master 3, Vexel did something unhinged: he cut a $300 keyboard in half with a bandsaw, routed out the PCB, and hot-glued the guts of a trackball into the cavity. mousepound64

The result was ugly. It was asymmetrical. It had a latency of nearly 80ms. But the feel ? According to the original Reddit post (now deleted, but archived in 14 different Discord servers): "It feels like your hand never left home." Critics call it "arthritis speedrun

At its core, Mousepound64 (MP64) is a paradox. It is a 65% mechanical keyboard, split down the middle into two mirrored halves. But where the right half’s "J" key should be, there is a concave, 55mm polycarbonate trackball. Where the left half’s "F" key lives, there is a haptic scroll wheel with 64 detents (hence the name). It had a latency of nearly 80ms