The Ranking's #2 Keyboard Fixed the Wrist Pain Three Ergonomic Mice Couldn't.

For a year I blamed my mouse. My right wrist ached by mid-afternoon, so I did what the internet says to do: I bought an ergonomic mouse. Then a vertical one. Then a trackball. Roughly $200 later, the ache was exactly where I’d left it.

It turned out the culprit was my keyboard — a flat, mushy membrane board that had me bottoming out every keystroke and bending my wrists up to reach it. I only figured that out because RealRankly’s keyboard ranking has a criterion I’d never thought about: typing force and how the board keeps your wrist in a neutral angle.

I didn’t even buy the #1 pick. The #2 board scored slightly lower overall but higher on exactly that ergonomics sub-score, and it was cheaper. The ranking made that trade-off legible instead of hiding it behind one blended number — I could see why #2 might be the right call for me specifically.

Three weeks in, the afternoon ache is gone. Not “better.” Gone. The lesson I took: a good ranking isn’t one that names the single best product, it’s one that shows you the sub-scores so you can match them to your actual problem. Mine wasn’t the mouse. It was 400 grams of finger travel I never questioned.

If your wrist hurts and you’ve been buying mice, go read the keyboard criteria. It’s the most useful $130 the internet ever talked me into.