SteelSeries QcK Gaming Surface - Medium Stitched Edge Cloth Limited - Extra Durable - Optimized For Gaming Sensors - Black/Silver

I play CS:GO, just under 6000 hours in and still going strong. I have used many mousepads over the years. The list includes: Logitech G440 Razer Goliathus Speed Large Razer Goliathus Speed Extended HyperX Fury S Pro HyperX GTF-X Corsair MM300 Extended Corsair MM600 Steelseries Qck+ Steelseries Qck+ Limited Fnatic Boost Control Fnatic Boost Speed A Used Cutting Board (literally) As well as many not special or famous brand mousepads I do not consider this a fast mouse pad. I have played with hard pads, soft pads, and hybrids. It has the worst aspects of both kinds of mousepads. The Static Friction is very high as a result of the mousepads surface. Static Friction is the force keeping an object at rest, as in not moving. Some people prefer high friction mousepads so they can "stop on a dime", right when they wish the mouse to stop moving, they just stop applying force. This is not a typical high friction mousepad. The problem is that this mousepad has an odd ratio of the Static Friction to the Kinetic Friction. Kinetic Friction is the force stopping or slowing a moving object. Its difficult for me to explain precisely how one of the problems feel; When the mouse is moving in one direction, in order to then move in a different direction while moving you have to overcome the friction of the mousepad again at that angle. I assume it is because of the way the stitching is done. I havent had this issue with other higher friction mousepads. It makes it difficult for me in games that requires non straight line movements. I switch between mousepads sometimes based on situation, or how my mouse feet are behaving. Currently my pair is the HyperX GTF-X, and the Razer Goliathus Speed Large. With the GTF-X the static friction is low, so small movements in any direction can be done with very little effort. The kinetic friction is very close to the static friction, so I can consistently make wide turns with small adjustment after. With the Goliathus Speed, the static friction is slightly higher, but the kinetic friction is lower it requires less force than the initial force to keep the mouse moving. I play a Support/2nd-3rd Entry role on my team; I recognize that entrying is easier with the Goliathus Speed, so I can do several 180° turns, and they dont have to be accurate on the small scale, since it is close range and teammates are engaging. Otherwise the GTF-X is comfortable for everything else. I cannot effortlessly use the QCK+ Limited because the static friction is higher than is comfortable, and the kinetic friction while moving is still rather high, but less sticky feeling than the static friction This mousepad fits neither of my roles and therefore I can not recomend it personally. Some of you may prefer the way it feels. If you play other games, the issues I stated above will likely not apply. P.S. My feeling of fast and slow may be radically different than others because I played on hard pads much of my career too. I would even mix lotion with water on a folded rag and coat the surface of the hard pad with the mixture, wiping it clean every few minutes. There was so little friction that If I put a folded peice of paper under one side, the mouse would slide off the table. I had to apply force to stop the mouse when it was moving. If I lightly tapped it on with a finger, it would slide accross until its feet dropped off the surface of the hardpad. Please consider my perspective in your evaluation of my review, and your decisions because of it.

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There is a lot to like about this mousepad, but every last bit of it is overshadowed by the fact that the thing simply wont stay where I want it. The thing slides around my desk like its on wheels! I even went so far as to rough up the surface of my desk with 80 grit sandpaper to try and keep it stationary. In fact, this will be my last Steelseries. Previously I owned two QcK (original version) and though they did not suffer from this particular issue (after being broken in, anyway) both of them had severe warping on the right side of the pad, likely due to hand warmth. Update: After two months the thing has finally stopped sliding around **as much** but its still a pain. Oh, and the aforementioned warping issues I had with previous SteelSeries mats? Just started again in this one. Downgrading rating from 3/5 to 2/5.

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The smell was unbearable right out of the box. It didnt have the expected new rubber/fresh from the factory smell that a lot of mousepads tend to have. It smelled like gasoline and some other sort of toxic mixture which filled up my room, and transferred to my hands after touching it. The mousing surface is also different from the QCK+ and the QCK Heavy and is far too slick with not enough stopping power to it. I was willing to overlook the non-stitched edges to get what I thought would be a much larger and better qck+ but this is a huge disappointment. I will be returning it due to the smell alone.

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