Lemokey G1 review

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First, the provenance. Lemokey is Keychron's gaming brand, offering keyboards and mice aimed squarely at the players of games rather than Keychon's theoretically more 'enthusiast' fare. Let's be honest, the differences between gaming and enthusiast keebs are pretty slight—and only really of interest because our Jacobs love to fight about it—but when it comes to gaming mice there should be more of a clear distinction.

Though Keychron does actually sell obviously 'gamer' mice on its own site (as well as this Lemokey rodent), which does make such clear delineation a little tougher to parse. Whatever the semantic differences between the brands, however, the Lemokey G1 is still absolutely classic Keychron, in that it's offering a high-end feature set for a genuinely affordable price.

The most obvious of those is the offered 8,000 Hz polling rate, a feature that is usually the preserve of high-end gaming mice from the likes of Logitech or Razer at often twice the price of the G1. So, that makes the Lemokey an excellent entry-level pro-level mouse for the super competitive competitive gamers, then?

Whenever a writer posits a question like that in a review you already know the answer is going to be a straight 'no'. So, it was an almost redundant ploy on my behalf. I'm truly sorry for treating you with such little respect. Still, it is worth noting that despite Lemokey's claims to having a full 8,000 Hz polling rate for its wee mouse, that is absolutely not to be taken as a killer feature for the G1.

Connectivity: 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 5.1, wired
Buttons: 5
Sensor: Pixart 3950
Max. resolution: 30,000 DPI
Max. speed: 750 IPS
Max. acceleration: 50 G
Weight: 55 g
Price: $69 | £69

I've checked out the performance of the Pixart 3950 sensor in the Lemokey mouse and, while in general use at 1,000 Hz, the mouse performs admirably, as soon as you spike it up to 8,000 Hz the data points start to look really weird. That's because it's not actually polling at the stated rate; I measured