Wooting Lekker Linear45 Magnetic HE

Quick Summary

The Wooting Lekker Linear45 is the switch that put magnetic Hall-effect keyboards on the map. It’s a light 30g linear that bottoms out around 45g, but its real trick is contactless sensing: instead of a metal leaf, it reads a magnet, which means you can dial the actuation point anywhere from 0.1mm to 4.0mm and run rapid-trigger. For analog input and competitive gaming, it’s the reference.

Specs and Feel

With 4.0mm of total travel and a non-magnetic steel spring, the Linear45 feels like a clean, light conventional linear in the hand. The POM stem in a polycarbonate-over-nylon housing gives a medium-clacky voice. Because there’s no contact mechanism, the downstroke is free of the tiny scratch many linears exhibit right at actuation — travel is uniformly smooth top to bottom. Stem wobble is reasonable, and the factory lube smooths out the rails. The standout isn’t the feel so much as the software-defined behavior the magnet enables: every key can have its own trigger depth and reset.

Tuning

There’s almost nothing to tune mechanically, and you shouldn’t try. These are factory-lubed and sealed units; the magnet alignment matters for sensing accuracy, so opening them up risks throwing off calibration. All the meaningful “tuning” happens in firmware — set your actuation depth, sensitivity, and rapid-trigger thresholds in Wooting’s software rather than reaching for a brush.

Verdict

Buy these only if you have a Hall-effect board to put them in — in anything else they simply won’t register. If you do, the Linear45 is the safe, proven default, and the natural comparison is the Lekker Tikken, which trades some of this brightness for a deeper, more muted sound and a closed bottom. For pure out-of-the-box analog gaming, though, the Linear45 remains the one to beat.