I’ve had zero luck finding any info on this. Maybe my search skills are bad :/

What I’m looking for are mouse skates that create the feel of a mouse on a mouse pad. All the skates I’m seeing are for ultra low friction when used on a mouse pad. Basically, I want to get rid of the need for a mouse pad on my desk for aesthetic and practical reasons and am hoping that someone knows about a set of mouse skates that would facilitate this.

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    1 year ago

    I’m assuming you must have an optical mouse, not a ball mouse. If it’s a ball mouse, you can’t really add because it would reduce contact between the ball and the surface.

    With an optical mouse, I don’t think you’re going to quite duplicate the feel of using a plastic mouse on a neoprene pad. You might come close if the surface you’re using is close to being as smooth as plastic, and you put the same kind of fabric on the bottom of the mouse as is typically on a mouse pad.

    Broadly, it sounds like you want to feel the same amount of resistance between mouse and surface as you’re used to, but I think you’re saying that the surface you have now is a little less smooth than the mouse pad you’re used to, so to get a similar experience with it, you’d need the bottom of your mouse to be smoother than it is now.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, if the resistance can be close to mousepad feel and the noise dampened then I’d be happy. It’s not so much the smoothness of the mousepad that I’m after, rather the resistance. My desk without the pad has much less resistance than the pad does.

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        1 year ago

        I think your best bet is going to be too take a piece of the new desk cover to a fabric store and rub it on different fabrics to find one that has the right resistance, then buy a piece and glue it to the bottom of the mouse.

        Or you could try a trackball and avoid the whole issue completely. I’ve used one of these for years very happily.