I've been using a RatPadz XT (lost my old RatPadz GS) and a fUnc Archetype 1030 for many years now. That's all the mousing surface I need to move the cursor comfortably across 3 monitors (and I don't even get to use the full surface due to overlap from keyboard due to keyboard tray). Don't need some gigantic-@ss mousing surface. Never been a fan of cloth mousing surfaces anyways. I got the mouse sensitivity juuuust right so that my wrist/slight arm movements can control a very wide but accurate and precise range of motion (not to mention I can adjust DPI on the fly when needed). It's like I am moving the mouse cursor with my mind, it feels so natural. Works out great in first-person shooters, Photoshop, whatever. Plus the arm wrest of my chair is level with the keyboard tray, so from wrist to elbow my arm is comfortably resting. Makes for greater stability and control of the mouse, while reducing the workload on the wrist. The sh1t today's kids do with the low sensitivity and wide arm movements, it's not for me. Surprised they can use a mouse like that.
I agree.
I've been using nothing but my Ratpadz, most of which I bought before they were called XT when there was only one Ratpad. Only downside is that they keep warping. I'm going to have to find a better way to bend them back than when I am using now.
If you were to go on youtube however, you will find tons of 1337 Gaming youtubers telling all the children that they absolutely have to have a desk sized mousepad, use super low sensitivity, and move their mouse arms at the shoulder or elbow instead of the wrist.
Like this:
And then all the kids get on the hype train and imitate it because "OMG a CSGO Pro does it" and start begging their parents for a 3x5ft mouse pad.
They then proceed to ride their entire arm around on top of their mouse as if it were some sort of vehicle, and then insist that having the lightest mouse possible is extremely important for performance, not considering for a moment that in this use scenario their entire mouse and arm move as a unit, and compared to the several pounds an arm weighs, the few grams here or there on the mouse doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
The basic premise makes sense (sort of) in that if you have lower sensitivity, it requires less fine movements in order to get those "lol 360 noscope headshots", but what it fails to take into consideration is that our arms have not evolved to have the same level of precision movement as our hands and fingers have, so when I use a higher sensitivity, barely putting any weight on my mouse, and resting most of my arm on the desk on the desk, and just gently nudging the mouse with my fingers, I get very high precision finger movement, and can thus gain similar accuracy with much higher sensitivity, and don't need as large of a physical range of motion.
Meanwhile, I rely on precise fingertip movements at a higher sensitivity, and have somehow escaped repetetive strain injuries despite doing this for going on 30 years. (knock on wood)
