Lightest And Fastest Gaming Mouse – LoFree Hypace
LoFree Hypace is a $199 USD Gaming Mouse with the title of being the world’s lightest and most ergonomic mouse ever created. Today we will review the Hypace and compare it with other mice, especially with the Razer Naga V2 Pro (179 USD) which is currently my daily driver as far as gaming and productivity mice go.
Introduction
LoFree is a keyboard maker, best known for their flat keyboards, some of which we already reviewed. They make fashionable products, with a kick for design and improved ergonomics. LoFree products are available on Amazon, Aliexpress and on their own website, although Hypace in particular is available on Kickstarter and it is currently a crowdfunding campaign.
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Product Link
Amazon – https://amzn.to/3HVBu1u
Official Website – http://lofree.co/pages/lofree-hypace
Build Quality – Design
Lofree Hypace or High Pace is a Tri-Mode connectivity mouse and productivity mouse, designed around the PAW3950 Flagship sensor, with a weight of just 47 grams, and with a Dual 8K polling rate. LoFree built the hypace on frame, with the most lightweight structure possible. This means using a magnesium alloy shell, with hollowed-out designs. This shell is not comfortable to the touch, so LoFree added a polycarbonate contact structure that you actually touch, so the mouse has a robust inner frame with a breathable PC Cladding above.
This polycarbonate or plastic shell feels silky smooth, and just like the LoFree Flow Lite 100 mechanical keyboard, it is slightly soft and gentle with your hands. Quite pleasing to use. The whole rigid frame is just 38 grams, and the whole mouse reaches 47 grams, which is likely the lightest mouse built to date.
Attached to the main frame, we have 4 separate PC shapes, allowing your hand to feel a secure grip with no added pressure. This four petal design is sleek, and allows for a central slit that cools off your hand. Technically, this mouse is even more incredible than it is for its ergonomics, using the most precise PAW3950 Sensor, trusted by competitive gamers, with a DPI of 30.000 and which you can overclock to 40.000 DPI, and with 750 IPS ultra-fast tracking, and 50G acceleration, it feels like the most precise mouse ever. Hypace is a wireless mouse first, and it has a battery life of 100 hours for a 1000Hz polling rate, and 17 hours for 8000Hz polling rate. To be fair, I have been using it side by side against my Razer Naga V2 PRO, and Hypace is a mouse I have charged once in my entire time with it, across a month of usage, while Naga V2 PRO needs a charge every 3-4 days, with both getting as much usage, and sometimes hypace even more as I find it far more ergonomic.
You can adjust the DPI and lift-off distance, and your left and right clocks are provided by a Kalih HM White Blade Micro Switch, which has a lifespan of 100 Million Clicks. The response time is 0.2ms, having both a bit of tactile feedback, but also feeling snappy and fatigue-free. I love that you can customize this mouse without using a driver, and all can be configured from the Lofree web based driver.
Wireless receiver Hypace uses has lights with multiple effects, which you can actually turn off. From the same web driver you can control the Sleep time, and also the current DPI, Polling rate and Debounce Time. You can install and set macros and many other advanced options including a Motion sync, Ripple Control, Angle Snap and Long distance Mode. LoFree Hypace can use Bluetooth, Wifi and Wired connections, and it has a Nordic MCU Main Controller, coming with the feet you have to attach to the mouse, wireless receiver, and USB cable in the package.
Subjective Usage – Gaming – Productivity
Considering that my mouse is the main way I interact with my computer, I consider Hypace to be currently the most comfortable, best shaped mouse I have ever tested in my entire life. I am in love with the lightweight design, incredibly smooth and comfortable grip, touch feeling of the plastic it has, and the clicks it makes are snappy, somewhat tactile, but never fatiguing. I love everything about its ergonomics, it is perfect down to the smallest detail. As a fan of anime content and the Japanese culture in general, I also love the contrasty writing on the white variant, the orange backwards and forward buttons, and the rather tactile volume wheel.
Hypace is very hollow on the inside, but it feels more sturdy than any mouse I tested, and I have been through a few, including most flagships from other companies, as I am both a competitive gamer, game designer, and also use mouse for advanced productivity tasks. Having the backwards and forward buttons is very cool, and the mouse wheel is qualitative, making Hypace fairly useful for productivity, but the most important aspect for advanced users is that it stays cool, keeps your hands sweat-free and my hand has far less fatigue from using it than my daily Naga V2 PRO, to the point where I switch to the hypace just to feel more relaxed and feel its fun shape.
For gaming, I think most users will not need anything more advanced than the default settings, the polling rate of 1000 Hz, but I found that some of the advanced features are just incredibly useful. For example, Angle Snap is a stabilization / smoothing thing that the driver and mouse can do which will make any line you draw straight and smooth. This is incredibly useful, it gives the Hypace a much smoother feeling and in some games it can help you win more easily, although some anti-cheat systems might flag this behavior as dubious.
Ripple control is another advanced setting for Hypace, which smooths out micro stutters and jitter at high DPI settings, and it can be incredibly useful, but it can increase the latency of the mouse, so unless needed, I would leave it off. Most games benefit from it, and it makes gaming look much smoother, so for cinematic, single player games, it can improve your experience greatly, leading to a smoother movement, less jittery camera, and at high DPI and high FPS settings it can make the whole game feel smoother.
Lofree Hypace comes with an option named Motion Sync turned on, and this is another advanced feature that allows the mouse to synchronize the USB polling events with the sensor data, optimizing the mouse response time and overall performance. It reduces jitter and stuttering, and this is another reason why Hypace just feels so much smoother than all the other mice I’ve ever used. Long distance mode basically allows the mouse to emit a stronger signal for the receiver if it feels like the connection is not fully stable, which drains more battery.
Overall, I can confidently say that Hypace is the most advanced, smoothest, most ergonomic mouse I tested to date.
Comparisons
LoFree Hypace vs Razer Naga V2 PRO (199 USD vs 179 USD) – I use Naga V2 PRO with the left panel that has 6 buttons and I have those configured to a couple of functions, including CTRL+W or close current Tab, CTRL+SHIFT+T or re-open the same tab, CTRL+0 or reset zoom level, I have a button that does ALT+F4 to the current window, a middle click and backwards / forward buttons. So, the issue here is that Naga V2 Pro has a far more advanced productivity usefulness for me due to those buttons, and I often come back to using it while doing productivity work, especially thanks to the free wheel mouse wheel, feature which I’ve grown used to since the days of the Logitech G502. One of the features I use a lot on all Logitech and Razer mice that support it is the scroll tilt function, which I have set to the next tab and previous tab, as I have tens of tabs open at any time, and this feature allows me to more naturally browse those tabs.
On the other hand, the actual ergonomics of the Lofree Hypace are leaps ahead of those of the Naga V2 PRO, as Hypace is much lighter, smoother, the surface keeps my hands from sweating, while I sweat a lot using the Naga V2 PRO, clicks are far more satisfying on the Hypace, and tracking / sensor is far better on the Hypace, smoother, more precise, makes my whole gaming and development experience much better.
If hypace had 6 buttons on the left side and a free scroll option, or editable scroll wheel step / resolution, it would have become my daily mouse instantly, without me looking back. I think that for gaming no mouse I tested so far comes close to the hypace, and I never bothered to program the Nava V2 Pro for gaming in any way, it is simply not worth it, so for me Hypace feels at home while gaming. In fact, my experience using the hypace is so good that I often just use the keyboard shortcuts for productivity, as I learned all of them, instead of going back to the Naga V2 Pro, that’s how much I like the control, ergonomics and feeling of the Hypace.
Value and Conclusion
Priced at 199 USD default price, with no KS reductions, Hypace is most likely the priciest mouse I tested to date and most flagships from Razer, Mad Catz, Logitech, are priced lower than the official price of the hypace. This being said, the advanced features, ergonomics, smoothness of the tracking and precision of the Hypace makes it worth every penny, it is so incredible that if I knew it existed I would’ve gone straight for it. In fact, I like it so much that I am considering setting some of the functions I use on the Naga V2 PRO as hotkeys on my keyboard, for example on the F Row, instead of giving up the Hypace as a daily mouse, that’s how ergonomic and pleasing it is.
At the end of the day, I know audiophile-heaven is a website about music, sound and I typically review audio products, but I am a game designer, and this entire job of reviewing requires me to use a mouse on a daily basis, so I thought it would be great for me to explore and highlight my experience with a better mouse and how it could improve your experience as well, both when gaming, but also when browsing your computer. Regardless of what you’re doing, a mouse like Hypace is a welcome change, and unless you need an MMORPG mouse with more buttons, Hypace is currently the mouse I recommend the most to any enthusiast looking for less arm pain, more game gain.
PROs
- Sturdy, reliable design with a really solid frame
- Lightest mouse I tested to date
- Incredibly ergonomic and practical
- All the basic buttons you might need
- Snappy scroll wheel
- Smooth tracking and incredible precision
- Long battery life
- You can configure the light on the wireless receiver
- Many advanced software and hardware features
- Beautiful design
- Gaming king
Cons
- Does not have more buttons, for advanced productivity it could use around 6 on the left side
- Scroll wheel is not configurable, that is a feature I use a lot to search and browse large documents
Product Link
Amazon – https://amzn.to/3HVBu1u
Official Website – http://lofree.co/pages/lofree-hypace
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Full Playlist used for this review
We listened to more songs than those named in this playlist, but those are excellent for identifying a sonic signature. I recommend trying most of the songs from this playlist, especially if you’re searching for new music! The playlists are different for Spotify, Tidal and Youtube, and based on the songs I enjoy and are available on each!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_cjBXGmwSHSdGcwuc_bKbBDGHL4QvYBu
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5J3oloz8Riy9LxEGenOjQ0?si=979ba4f082414be7
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/330fd544-8e5b-4839-bd35-676b2edbb3d5
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