Wooting keycaps

Wooting keyboards ship with high-quality doubleshot PBT keycaps in Cherry profile, designed to complement their Hall Effect switch technology while maintaining compatibility with the broader mechanical keyboard ecosystem. The stock keycaps feature a textured surface that resists shine and provides excellent grip during intense gaming sessions, with shine-through legends optimized for RGB backlighting visibility.

Stock Keycaps Specifications

The default keycap set uses Cherry profile at approximately 9.4mm height with sculpted rows, delivering the low-profile feel preferred by competitive gamers while maintaining ergonomic comfort for extended typing sessions. The doubleshot PBT construction ensures legends never fade, with the two-layer molding process creating permanent, crisp character definition. Wall thickness runs approximately 1.4-1.5mm, producing the deeper, more muted "thock" sound signature that PBT is known for compared to ABS alternatives.

Wooting's keycap legends use a clean, modern sans-serif typeface with large, easy-to-read characters. The shine-through design allows RGB backlighting to pass through legends effectively while maintaining excellent daytime visibility without backlighting. The textured PBT surface provides a slightly rough, grippy feel that some gamers prefer over smooth ABS, and the material naturally resists the glossy shine that develops on ABS keycaps over months of use.

Model Differences

All current Wooting models — the 60HE+ (61-key compact), 80HE (87-key tenkeyless), and Two HE (full-size 104-key) — ship with the same Cherry profile doubleshot PBT keycaps. The key difference lies in the number of keycaps included: the 60HE+ includes 61 keys covering the standard 60% layout, the 80HE adds the function row and navigation cluster for 87 keys total, and the Two HE provides the complete 104-key set including numpad.

Compatibility and Customization

Wooting keyboards use standard Cherry MX-compatible stems, making them fully compatible with the vast ecosystem of aftermarket keycaps. All key sizes follow standard specifications: 6.25u spacebar, 2.75u right shift, 2.25u left shift, and standard 1.25u bottom row modifiers on the 60HE and 60HE+. This universal compatibility means Wooting users can access thousands of keycap sets from GMK, ePBT, Drop, and other manufacturers, plus fully custom options from services like Yuzu.

The keyboards support both ANSI and ISO layouts, though the default configuration ships as ANSI. The hot-swappable nature of Wooting's Lekker switches means keycaps can be changed freely without desoldering. One important note: while the switches themselves are hot-swappable, they use Gateron's Lekker magnetic Hall Effect technology rather than traditional mechanical contacts, so switch compatibility is limited to the Lekker series — but keycap compatibility remains universal across any MX-stem caps.

Wooting does not currently sell replacement keycap sets separately through their official store, positioning their keyboards as platforms for customization through third-party and custom keycap sources.

Wooting began in 2016 when Dutch engineers Calder Lorenz and Erik de Ruiter identified a fundamental limitation in mechanical keyboards: the binary nature of keyswitch activation. While analog joysticks had offered variable input for decades, keyboards remained stuck in digital on/off states. Their solution was to adapt Hall Effect magnetic sensing technology — originally used in industrial applications — to create the first analog mechanical keyboard switches.

The company launched through an Indiegogo campaign in September 2016, raising over €284,000 (343% of their €82,500 goal) with 1,371 backers. This initial success funded development of the Wooting One, their first analog keyboard featuring custom Flaretech optical switches. The Wooting One shipped in 2017 and introduced the keyboard community to analog input concepts like variable movement speed in games based on how far a key was pressed.

However, optical switches presented manufacturing and reliability challenges. Wooting pivoted to Gateron's magnetic Lekker switches around 2019-2020, which used Hall Effect sensors to detect key position through magnetic field changes. This technology proved more reliable and opened the door to Wooting's signature innovation: Rapid Trigger. Announced in 2021, Rapid Trigger allows keys to reactivate immediately upon any upward movement, eliminating the traditional reset distance and enabling impossibly fast key spam — a feature that quickly became essential in competitive FPS games like Valorant and Counter-Strike.

The Wooting 60HE launched in October 2021 through another successful crowdfunding campaign, raising over $1.2 million. This compact 60% keyboard brought Rapid Trigger and adjustable actuation (0.1mm to 4.0mm) to a size optimized for competitive gaming, where mouse space is premium. Its success cemented Wooting's position as the go-to brand for esports athletes seeking competitive advantages through hardware.

Wooting expanded the lineup with the Wooting 80HE (tenkeyless, 2023) for gamers wanting arrow keys and function row, and the Wooting Two HE (full-size, 2023) for users needing a numpad. The Wooting 60HE+ (2024) refined the compact formula with improved stabilizers and USB-C magnetic connector. Throughout this evolution, Wooting maintained a philosophy of continuous software updates, adding features like per-key actuation profiles, analog curve customization, and extensive macro programming through their Wootility software.

By 2025, Wooting had become synonymous with magnetic Hall Effect keyboards in the gaming community, with their Rapid Trigger technology licensed or replicated by major brands including Razer, SteelSeries, Corsair, and Logitech. The company's influence extends beyond their own products — they've fundamentally shifted competitive gaming standards, making adjustable actuation and rapid reset expected features in high-end gaming keyboards. Despite this, Wooting remains independent and Netherlands-based, continuing to prioritize performance innovation and community feedback over mass-market expansion.