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A single warm-grey stroke diagram of a key's downward travel plotted as a distance-over-time curve, with a coral line tracking the deepest point reached on each stroke and a stepped bracket marking a reset distance trailing behind that peak, a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Rapid trigger is a firmware algorithm, not a switch spec

A rapid-trigger switch is not a special switch. It is an ordinary analog sensor wired to a polling loop that redraws its own actuation point every cycle — and that loop, not the sensor, is where the real engineering happens.

thockSep 2, 20269 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily across five data points toward a flat warm-grey ceiling line near the top of the frame, the gap between the two narrowing from left to right, plotted beside a muted cross-section motif of a magnet over a sensor pad, with a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

TMR is closing the gap on Hall-effect. It hasn't caught it.

TMR switches have climbed every week on thock's trend tracker from W38 through W42 — 55, 63, 71, 85, 90. That's the second-highest score on this week's board, and the gap behind Hall-effect's ceiling has gone from 42 points to 10 in five readings.

thockSep 30, 20266 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily from 40 to 80 across eight data points, plotted against a warm-grey keyboard silhouette with a split spacebar and a tuning knob outlined at its base, and a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

Hardware caught up to Wooting. Firmware hasn't.

Wooting's 80HE+ preorder is the top mover on thock's 2026-W39 trends tracker, climbing from a score of 40 to 80 over eight weeks. The switch hardware behind it isn't the reason — Hall-effect sensing is table stakes across the category by September 2026. The firmware behind it still isn't matched.

thockSep 19, 20266 min read

Line-drawing silhouette of a Wooting 80HE-style keyboard case with a split spacebar and a rotary knob at its base, rendered in warm-grey stroke with a coral splash marking the knob and a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

News

Wooting's 80HE+ preorder starts shipping in two waves this fall

Preorders for Wooting's 80HE+ opened September 17, 2026, and the first units are headed out the door in two separate waves — ABS and Module boards in late October, the zinc case and Lekker Knob Large accessory in mid-December.

thockSep 18, 20266 min read

Cross-section of a Gateron Magnetic Jade switch drawn in a single warm-grey stroke — polycarbonate top housing over a closed nylon bottom, a POM stem with a small rare-earth magnet seated in its base, descending toward a Hall sensor pad on the PCB below. A coral callout line picks out the magnet and the sensor, with faint coral field lines tightening between them, and a small warm-bronze theme dot sits in the upper-right margin.

Deep Dives

Gateron Magnetic Jade: the Hall-effect linear built to be argued about like a mechanical one

Pull a Magnetic Jade apart and the parts list reads like a mid-tier mechanical linear: polycarbonate top, nylon bottom, POM stem, factory lube. Where the leaf would be, there is a magnet. That one substitution explains the feel, the sound, and why it will not fit half the Hall-effect boards on the market.

thockAug 21, 202611 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily across six data points before leveling into a flat plateau across the final two, plotted against a warm-grey keyboard silhouette, with a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

Hall-effect stopped climbing. That's not the same as cooling off.

The Hall Effect/Rapid Trigger category has held flat at 97 on thock's trends tracker for two straight weeks, after climbing from 82 in late June. A flat line at the top of the chart looks like fading interest if you're reading it as a stock ticker. Read as a market snapshot, it says something closer to the opposite.

thockAug 12, 20266 min read

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