u/E123Timay

Excuse the hair on my game mat, I have two cats.

The zaunkoneig m3k arrived on my doorstep today after a couple days delay from UPS. It came in a nice aluminum box with a letter. Very premium unboxing experience. Getting the price out of the way, it is 400$ and that IS expensive. However the process to make these is equally as expensive. What you're seeing is a hand crafted mouse made from carbon fiber out of Germany. Not fake or just a coating, the entire shell is carbon fiber. Understandably, this mouse isn't for everyone because of the price and that's OKAY. It doesn't have to be. They're not pushing Logitech or Razer or even pulsar numbers here. They're a small batch company, making a pure performance mouse. If it's not for you, cool.

Where to begin? The coating is nice and grippy. I have sweaty hands and I don't really think this mouse needs grip tape. I have a nice firm, surprisingly comfortable fingertip grip on this mouse. To me at least, fingertip mice shouldn't have side buttons as the grip you're using makes it naturally uncomfortable to sit on side buttons. Just a personal preference and I know there are many who love G Wolves mice.

Moving on to the cable, one of the biggest complaints with the M2K was the cable. It was unfortunate because for such a light mouse, it could be moved around by such an unruly cable which could destroy your experience if you didn't have a bungee holder. I can say confidently, that is NOT an issue here. The cable feels non existent and truly you would not see a difference between wired and wireless.

Zaunkoneig thankfully built a web software alongside the M3K. It is very simple, and easy to use. And one thing I do want to note is that you can adjust your DPI in 50 measure increments. Very useful! My understanding is that the old method had you use the mouse to edit everything. I currently have my polling rate set to 2000.

I cannot measure the weight as I have nothing to use to measure it. But it is currently the lightest mouse in my collection and I have a few.

The clicks are nice and crispy! Very easy to press down in rapid succession.

There isn't much to say about the shape. It works just fine for me, I usually use palm grip ergo mice and this is my first fingertip mouse. I will update the experience here after a week of use but I don't see the shape or grip being an issue. It felt natural to me and not uncomfortable.

Scroll wheel is nice and smooth. Not much else to comment on it.

My first fingertip mouse would have been the zero mouse blade but sadly that is almost always out of stock and so I chose this. They're both mice extremely dedicated to perfecting the fingertip grip and do not use side buttons or allow the use of multiple grips.

Would I recommend this? If you have the money sure. I bought this with my own money. However there are certainly cheaper options.