Inside the cult-like devotion to a 64-key keyboard, a trackball mutation, and the ergonomic revolution no one asked for.
The result was ugly. It was asymmetrical. It had a latency of nearly 80ms. But the feel ? According to the original Reddit post (now deleted, but archived in 14 different Discord servers): "It feels like your hand never left home."
It is ugly. It is expensive (total BOM cost: ~$340). It requires a firmware engineering degree to flash. And yet, when you finally master the "thumb-roll to pinky-chord," there is a moment of silence. The cursor stops jumping. The carpal tunnel stops whispering. Your hands become one with the pound. mousepound64
Virtual Workshop, 2026
There is a quiet corner of the internet where the click is not a mouse click. It is a thud. A deep, satisfying, ceramic-like thunk . This is the world of Mousepound64—a hybrid input device that refuses to be categorized, a Frankensteinian masterpiece that has turned programmers, video editors, and digital cartographers into devout evangelists. Inside the cult-like devotion to a 64-key keyboard,
At its core, Mousepound64 (MP64) is a paradox. It is a 65% mechanical keyboard, split down the middle into two mirrored halves. But where the right half’s "J" key should be, there is a concave, 55mm polycarbonate trackball. Where the left half’s "F" key lives, there is a haptic scroll wheel with 64 detents (hence the name).
If you have never heard of the MP64, you are not alone. For every thousand mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, there is exactly one person who has soldered together a Mousepound. But that ratio is shifting. Slowly, painfully (due to the wrist stretches required), the word is spreading. It had a latency of nearly 80ms
As Vexel wrote in the final line of the build guide: "You are no longer a user. You are a keeper. Now get back to work."