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The Mchose Ace 68 Turbo on a red background.
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Mchose Ace 68 16 kHz gaming keyboard review

For those who measure their lives in fractions of a second.

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Our Verdict

The current holder of the fastest keyboard crown, this svelte but heavy contraption looks good on a desk and doesn’t cost the Earth, but complex setup and guides only in Chinese can make it challenging.

For

  • Fastest polling rate yet
  • Smooth magnetic switches
  • Rugged build quality

Against

  • Complex setup
  • Some translation required
  • Wired keyboards can feel old-fashioned

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Mchose, you’ll be pleased to hear, is not a Scottish garden products company, a new and particularly rubbery burger, or an unintelligible rapper you’ll despair of The Young People liking, but a Chinese manufacturer of computer accessories including keyboards, headphones, and the most enormous wireless mouse receiver I’ve ever seen. Honestly, the mouse that thing pairs with must be MASSIVE.

On to the Ace 68 Turbo, which isn’t particularly big but is a 68-key gaming keyboard with Mount Tai GT HE magnetic switches.

Switches that the Zhishi Intelligent Technology Company, whose name is printed on the back as the manufacturer, has chosen to package in a nicely made but completely unopenable box. If you were the sort of child who tore their presents open on Christmas morning like a xenomorph rampaging through a hapless spaceship crew, then sharpen your claws and prepare to get stuck in. Finding a way to peel the end open will become a priority, and you’ll eventually be able to slide the sheath off and expose the inner packaging, which flips open to unveil a sheet of stickers, a key-puller, a dust cover, some spare keys and switches and eventually a keyboard that’s shrink-wrapped in a layer of plastic. Get that off, and the Ace 68 Turbo is revealed.

This isn’t a website about cardboard boxes, except when it is, so that’s enough about the packaging. This is, as PCG announced to a jubilant world back in November, the world's first keyboard with a 16 kHz polling rate enabled by a 512 MHz dual-core microcontroller, something that reduces latency by a few thousandths of a second (0.02 ms), and which it’s debatable anyone really needs or will ever notice.

Ace 68 specs

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The Mchose Ace 68 Turbo on a red background.
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Buy if...

✅ You have to have the fastest: Doubling the polling rate of its competitors immediately makes the Ace 68 stand out, and despite the uncertainty over whether it’s actually worth it, that counts for something.

Don't buy if...

❌ You want to do a lot of typing on it: I’ve never found a rapid trigger keyboard like this to be an ideal choice for writing the great English novel of the 21st century, but it excels at quick reactions.

I’m not sure that the ‘Super Gaming Gear’ and ‘Young’s Choice’ slogans written in English add anything to this mystique, however. The latter made me wonder if it had an endorsement from Angus Young of AC/DC, which sadly it does not.

This is a wired keyboard, all the better to remove the latency introduced by wireless transmission systems, and is available in a range of colours including a rather wonderful Berry Red. The one supplied to PCG for review is white, and this suits its sleekly futuristic look.

Does the increased reaction speed of such a fast keyboard make a difference? Not as much as you might think. The improvement of just a few milliseconds is well within the average ping of online games. Either this is a keyboard made for a tiny minority of LAN gamers having a noticeable problem with keyboard latency, or the psychological effect of knowing you have the best and the fastest—the increased confidence this brings compelling you to attempt precise shots and manoeuvres you wouldn’t have before. It’s also cheaper than PCG’s favourite rapid-trigger Hall effect keyboard, the Wooting 80HE, which may make you feel even better.

For those not kept awake at night by the fear that their inability to turn quickly enough may lose them the match, it’s just a great keyboard to use for games. The weight, the smoothness of the switches, the cut-down size and the multi-function roller wheel. It’s a nice thing to have on your desk. Also more keyboards, and PC peripherals in general, should come with stickers. Fact.

Wooting 80HE
Best Hall effect keyboards 2026

1. Best overall: Wooting 80HE

2. Best budget: Gamakay X NaughShark NS68

3. Best wireless: Keychron K2 HE

4. Best low profile: NuPhy Air60 HE

5. Best looking: NZXT Function Elite MiniTKL

6. Best with a numpad: Keychron Q5 HE


👉Check out our full Hall effect keyboard guide👈

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Mchose Ace 68

The current holder of the fastest keyboard crown, this svelte but heavy contraption looks good on a desk and doesn’t cost the Earth, but complex setup and guides only in Chinese can make it challenging.

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