What Keyboard Does Khanada Use?

Khanada's keyboard history

Khanada's keyboard history is short and easy to follow. He started this stretch on a Wooting One in September 2022 and used it for 6.1 months. In March 2023 he moved to the SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL (2023).

That board has been his only other keyboard since, and the 43.2 months (3.6 years) he has spent on it make it the longest period in his history. He has not gone back to the Wooting. In practice, the move to the SteelSeries was a one-way switch to a tenkeyless board that he has kept for years.

Switches and actuation

The Apex Pro TKL (2023) is sold with OmniPoint 2.0 switches. It is a tenkeyless board with RGB and a non-hotswappable PCB, so the switches are fixed to the board rather than something you swap out later.

The Wooting boards listed as alternatives work differently. The Wooting 80HE is hotswappable and sold with a wide range of options: Lekker Linear 45 v2, Lekker Linear 60 v2, Lekker Tikken Light, Lekker Tikken Medium, Geon Raw HE and Wooting x TTC KOM. The Razer Huntsman V3 Pro TKL uses Razer Analog Optical switches and, like the Apex Pro, is non-hotswappable.

Key binds

His Fortnite layout keeps the basics on the left hand: crouch on L-Ctrl, sprint on L-Shift, jump on Space, and the harvesting tool on Q. Weapon slots 1 to 5 sit on the number keys 2 to 6, which leaves 1 free for traps.

For building, walls, floors and stairs each have two keys: an F-key (F1, F2, F3) and a letter next to the movement hand (C, X, V). Rotate is on R and edit is on F. Confirm Edit on Release is turned off.

Should you buy Khanada's keyboard?

The Apex Pro TKL (2023) is a full-height tenkeyless board. It is 35.5 cm wide, 13.6 cm long and 3.9 cm tall. It suits anyone who wants the number row, function keys and arrow cluster of a TKL layout without a numpad, and who is happy with a taller board. Its non-hotswappable PCB means you are committing to the switches it ships with.

The alternatives trade off in a few ways:

• Wooting 80HE Black (8 pros use it now): 0.6 cm longer, 0.9 cm narrower and 1.06 cm lower than the Apex Pro TKL. It is hotswappable and offers many switch options.
• Wooting 80HE+ Frost (6 pros use it now): the same dimensions and switch options as the 80HE Black, so the same size differences apply.
• Razer Huntsman V3 Pro TKL Black (5 pros use it now): 0.4 cm longer and 0.9 cm wider, with the same height. It uses Razer Analog Optical switches and a non-hotswappable PCB.

If you want a low profile and room to change switches later, the Wooting boards fit better. If you want the same height as Khanada's board, the Razer is the closest match.