Hansker Productivity Vertical Gaming Mouse Review: Super Ergonomics

Stylish and refined shape. Comfortable ergonomics. Oversized signifier works for astir hands. Wireless via 2.4-GHz dongle oregon Bluetooth. 1,000-Hz polling rate. Shockingly competent for gaming.

Customization bundle is basic. Beige mightiness not suit each setups.

I’ve ne'er been a vertical rodent person. These mice person a vertical signifier that puts your thenar successful a much neutral posture, reducing strain connected the wrist. But each clip I've utilized 1 successful the past, it felt awkward, unnatural, oregon similar I was making a trade-off successful speech for amended ergonomics. They conscionable ne'er worked for me—until the Hansker Productivity Mouse came crossed my desk.

It takes the modular vertical rodent formula, but sculpts the angles and curves for an incredibly earthy feel. All that portion inactive offering everything you'd privation successful a modern mouse, from speedy wireless connectivity, USB-C recharging, left- and right-clickers, a scroll wheel, 2 programmable thumb buttons, and multi-device connectivity via Bluetooth.

Hansker's rodent comes successful 2 flavors: Productivity and Performance. Both person a precocious 1,000-Hz polling rate, which is however accelerated the rodent sends its information to the PC. The Performance costs $140, weighs 90 grams, uses a higher-performance sensor, and is disposable successful black. The Productivity costs $115, weighs 116 grams, uses a slower sensor, and comes successful a lukewarm off-white.

Informed Design

Hansker’s founder, Alex Muñoz, tells maine a batch of probe went into the signifier of the Productivity Mouse. Its plan is heavy influenced by probe connected ergonomics published successful the National Library of Medicine, which guided the perfect space and signifier for a vertical rodent to trim wrist strain. Then Muñoz went done aggregate prototypes to find a one-size-fits-all signifier that worked for assorted manus sizes.

“The mode we went astir this was to find a shape, a signifier factor, and a size that fits arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable with the cognition that 1 size doesn’t acceptable all,” Muñoz says. “I realized that bigger forms are usually much comfy for astir people.” In my testing, I recovered this close arsenic well. I had respective radical trial this mouse, each with varying manus sizes, and astir each of them said the Hankser Productivity was comfy to clasp and use, careless of manus size.

Another accent was a tendency to make a vertical rodent that didn’t look terrible. The Hansker is 1 of the lone ones I’ve utilized that doesn’t go an eyesore connected immoderate table it inhabits. The mouse’s creaseless curvature and well-placed lines marque it look similar it was sculpted from clay. The plan is clean, without being truthful elemental that it sacrifices functionality for form.

My manus slips perfectly onto this mouse, and each fastener is wrong scope from a resting position. The thumb buttons are elongated, making them casual to scope by smaller and larger hands, and each 4 of the buttons usage the aforesaid microswitch underneath to make a accordant consciousness and sound. The tiny bevel astatine the bottommost of the rodent creates a ridge that my fingers tin easy usage to prime up and determination the mouse, thing that’s absent connected astir vertical mice. The signifier feels intuitive.

The astir awesome portion is the resting presumption of your hand. Many of the vertical mice I’ve utilized successful the past person had harsh curves connected the exterior that meant the thenar of your manus had obscurity to rest. Instead, you would person to fto your manus hover adjacent to the rodent oregon remainder the bottommost of your manus connected the table portion holding it, with lone a ridge wrong for your thumb to beryllium on. The extracurricular space of the Hansker Productivity is shaped perfectly to fto your thenar remainder on the mouse. Because of this, the earthy presumption feels comfy and relaxed, and lets you easy glide the rodent crossed your table without angling your manus unintuitively oregon hovering.

While I emotion the colour of the Productivity exemplary (which pairs perfectly with retro-styled beige keycaps), it apt won’t beryllium for everyone. The off-white colour has occupation blending successful with an all-white machine workstation, and is overmuch warmer than the emblematic chill achromatic of astir peripherals. The achromatic connected the pricier Performance model, similar always, works with everything.

Performance-Focused Wireless

The Productivity Mouse, shockingly enough, performs incredibly good with everything I threw astatine it. The Pixart 3325 sensor is leagues up of the mean nongaming mouse, and the 1,000-Hz wireless connectivity is fast. This sensor isn’t top-of-the-line, but it’s competent for a hybrid gaming/work mouse. I didn’t acquisition immoderate input lag oregon issues with responsiveness, and the sensor was susceptible of some high-precision enactment and high-speed movements.

The Hansker besides has multi-device connectivity, which is astir mandatory for productivity devices today. This is done via Bluetooth, which means connectivity is constricted to 125 Hz, similar immoderate different Bluetooth device, though that's inactive good for astir uses. The instrumentality swapping is odd, requiring you to property the left, right, and mediate rodent buttons to swap betwixt devices alternatively of a emblematic Bluetooth fastener connected the underside.

The Hansker Controller software, portion functional and incredibly lightweight, is unrefined successful its existent state. It's inactive successful beta and is missing immoderate quality-of-life features similar model size adjustment, but it inactive has each the indispensable customizations for adjusting DPI (dots per inch), polling rate, and fastener mapping. For Mac users, the rodent is compatible with the unfastened root LinearMouse customization software.

The value of this rodent strikes a large equilibrium betwixt inferior and speed. While astir gaming mice contiguous strive for lightness astatine each costs, and productivity mice astir wholly disregard value savings, the Hansker finds a balance. Between the Productivity and Performance models, determination is 1 lightweight mold for the housing. Hansker puts weights connected the bottommost of the Productivity exemplary to marque it consciousness much substantial, and leaves the Performance rodent empty.

I haven’t ever been favorable toward peripherals that adhd weights, but there’s a clip and a place, and this is it. The rodent is already sturdy and unchangeable without these weights, and they lone marque the rodent consciousness much planted. Neither compares to the sub-60-gram ultra-lightweight gaming mice you tin find today, with the Performance exemplary clocking successful astatine 90 grams and the Productivity exemplary sitting astatine 116 grams total. My lone ailment is that these weights aren’t easy removable, which could person allowed for a spot much customization by the user. This isn’t common, but I had a SteelSeries Rival 600 with this diagnostic years ago.

Lightweight With Longevity

On the outside, the Hansker Productivity is arsenic elemental arsenic a rodent tin get. It has 2 modular buttons, 2 programmable thumb buttons, and a basal scroll wheel. The exterior is made from ABS integrative without soft-touch coatings oregon different aboveground treatments.

High-end mice from brands similar Logitech person soft-touch coatings applied that, portion large astatine first, tally the hazard of wearing distant and leaving either creaseless spots oregon tacky finishes. They besides person analyzable rodent instrumentality and fastener designs that, portion incredibly sophisticated, person a higher accidental of failure. While these features tin beryllium fantastic, it’s besides large to spot a rodent that opts for longevity and thoughtfully elemental design.

Opening up the mouse, my lone existent ailment is the placement of the screws. You request to region the adhesive feet connected the underside to entree them. Once removed, the interior assembly is incredibly simple. The ammunition consists of 3 pieces that tin beryllium taken isolated with lone a screwdriver, and the interior components—three printed circuit boards with 5 buttons, a rodent wheel, and a battery—all look to beryllium off-the-shelf components manufactured by Huano, which volition marque sourcing and replacing components easy.

Disassembly and reassembly tin beryllium hard owed to the extended usage of integrative clips to clasp the components together. Getting the 2 precocious parts of the lodging unneurotic without immoderate airy leaking from the apical LED took aggregate attempts and a spot much unit than I'd person liked.

Despite these insignificant issues, this is the champion vertical rodent I’ve used. It doesn’t person the outstanding physique prime oregon complexity of a vertical rodent from a marque similar Logitech, but it is simple, solid, and perfectly shaped. It doesn't consciousness similar corners were cut, and I don't consciousness similar I'm sacrificing thing by choosing an ergonomic vertical mouse. I tin honestly spot myself buying a Hansker Productivity for idiosyncratic use—it conscionable feels comfy and intuitive.