Lemokey P1 HE: Specs, Price, Pros & Cons
Most magnetic keyboards stay on a cable, and the Lemokey P1 HE goes wireless, with a dongle and Bluetooth for three devices. That makes it one of the few Hall effect boards that can move between a desktop and a laptop without a wire trailing behind it.
The switches are Gateron's Double-Rail Nebula magnetic type, and the board uses all three things they allow. The actuation point can be moved, rapid trigger resets a key as soon as it starts to lift, and analog input passes a half press to a game as a partial value, so a key can work like a gentle squeeze on a throttle in a racing game. The switches sit in hot-swap sockets under PBT caps.
Around them is a keyboard that looks more like a typist's build than a gaming peripheral. The frame is metal and the plate aluminum, a gasket mount and layers of foam sit inside, the stabilizers screw into the circuit board, and the 75% layout has a rotary knob. The front edge stands 19.2 mm tall without keycaps, and Lemokey's browser app remaps every key and the knob.
It is meant for someone who wants magnetic response in a heavy, quiet enthusiast board and plays on more than one computer. A gaming desktop and a work laptop can share it, with the dongle on one and Bluetooth on the other.
The polling rate is the ordinary one over the cable and the dongle, and players who put latency first will find faster polling on wired boards such as the Wooting 80HE.
Category strengths
Where the Lemokey P1 HE beats the median
- Has rapid trigger ?
- Has adjustable actuation ?
- Has analog input ?
- A slightly lower front height ?19.2 mm vs 20.25 mm (median)
Where the Lemokey P1 HE trails the median
- Much shorter battery life ?100 h vs 313.5 h (median)
How this VS Score was computed
Score 70: each known spec is measured against the median of all keyboards (101 products), then weighted; 50 means level with that median. In classes of six or more, a value beyond the class’s 10th–90th percentile range counts as that limit, so one extreme product cannot set the scale. 63% of the scoreable weight could be used; unknown values, features not applicable to this class and proxies (battery capacity where a rated life exists) add or remove nothing.
| Specification | This product | Cohort median | Score weight | Points moved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switch technology | Hall effect | Mechanical | 1 | +33.0 |
| Hot-swappable | Yes | 61% of the class have it | 0.6 | +30.0 |
| Rapid trigger | Yes | 25% of the class have it | 0.5 | +25.0 |
| Battery life | 100 | 313.5 | 0.6 | −20.4 |
| Adjustable actuation | Yes | 24% of the class have it | 0.4 | +20.0 |
| Analog input | Yes | 14% of the class have it | 0.4 | +20.0 |
| Sound dampening | Yes | 76% of the class have it | 0.3 | +15.0 |
| Rotary knob | Yes | 54% of the class have it | 0.2 | +10.0 |
| Front height | 19.2 | 20.25 | 0.2 | +0.6 |
| Polling rate | 1,000 | 1,000 | 0.7 | +0.0 |
| Connection | 3 | 3 | 0.8 | +0.0 |
| Bluetooth devices | 3 | 3 | 0.3 | +0.0 |
| Keycap material | PBT | PBT | 0.4 | +0.0 |
| Backlight | RGB | RGB | 0.3 | +0.0 |
Not scored: Actuation force (unknown: not scored); N-key rollover (standard for the class (84% have it)); Wired latency (unknown: not scored); Wireless latency (unknown: not scored); Battery capacity (capacity is a proxy; the rated battery life is scored instead); USB passthrough (unknown: not scored); Programmable keys (standard for the class (99% have it)); Media controls (unknown: not scored); Onboard profiles (unknown: not scored); Configuration software (standard for the class (95% have it)).
Editor’s note
The P1 HE is Lemokey's attempt to put magnetic switches inside an enthusiast keyboard, and the specification says it worked.
The Hall-effect side is complete: adjustable actuation, rapid trigger and true analog input, on Gateron Double-Rail Nebula magnetic switches. The build sets it apart: a full metal frame and aluminum plate on a gasket mount with screw-in PCB stabilizers and sound dampening, in a 75% layout with a rotary knob. At 1,630 g it is heavier than most laptops, and that mass, with the foam layers inside, is built for a dense, quiet typing sound that gaming boards rarely aim for.
Connection is tri-mode (wired, 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth for three devices), which is unusual for a magnetic board, though polling is 1,000 Hz against the 8,000 Hz of the wired-only Wootings.
Battery is the specification to weigh. Lemokey quotes up to 100 hours from the 4,000 mAh cell with the backlight off and gives no figure with the RGB lighting on, so anyone who keeps it lit should plan on charging it often.
Keycaps are double-shot PBT in a Cherry profile, and the switches are hot-swappable, though only with Gateron's double-rail magnetic switches.
Buy it if you want magnetic-switch response and a keyboard that feels like a high-end board to type on, and you can live with charging it often. Buy a Wooting if polling rate and latency are the point, or a mechanical Keychron if you do not need the sensing at all.
Specifications
Quality bars show where each figure sits between the lowest and highest of the 101 keyboards this VS Score is measured against.
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Sources and verification
Where the specifications come from
- Official product pagelemokey.com
Verification
- First published
- Specifications last checked
- Sheet completeness
- 28 of 34 specifications verified; the rest show as Unknown and are never estimated or scored
- Page type
- Product specification page — Compiled from the manufacturer’s published specifications and the cited sources; this is not a hands-on test.
- Basis
- Research-based: specifications and editorial text were compiled from the documents listed here and the manufacturer’s published data. We have not tested this unit ourselves; where independent measurements are mentioned they belong to the linked publication.
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The bottom line
The Lemokey P1 HE earns a VS Score of 70, above the median of the 101 keyboards it is measured against (a score of 50 is level with that median).
- Who it’s for
- Someone who wants magnetic switches in a proper enthusiast build and wants to move the board wirelessly between a desktop and a laptop.
- Who should look elsewhere
- Players chasing the lowest possible input lag should look at a wired Wooting instead. So should anyone who hates plugging a keyboard in to charge.
- The trade-off that matters
- Lemokey's battery rating assumes the backlight is off, so with the RGB lighting on it works best on a desk where a cable is always within reach.
- The main alternative
- Wooting 80HE: wired only, but faster polling and analog input in a TKL layout for players who put response time first.
The VS Score is calculated from the weighted specifications above, each measured against the median of comparable keyboards — a shortlisting guide, not a substitute for your own priorities. See how we score.
