I type fast-ish. And a ot. My previous work laptop was replaced ~ a month ago with a brand new beast.

The previous laptop was somehow skipping letters, sometimes mixing them up. It surely was time to repalace it. I must've "consumed" the keyboard over the 3 years of its service.

However, I'm noitcing that my new work laptop does the same thing. I guess it's Lenovo's issue then..

It can be how the keyboard is wired as well, there are some interesting ways they do it, some buffer specific sections of keys, so if you tap 5 keys in that section it forgets the extras, but another section can still be active

hmmm I'd attribute it more likely to computer lag

never seen it be due to hardware lag

gaming I remember the 3/5 key limit. some keys you can do 3 others 5. but that's for pressing them at the same time. they still had a rollover buffer thing. so if you let go and pressed another it never skipped

I have seen skipped keys due to software lag though. happens all the time. not too sure how it would. you'd think the keyboard info would be sent as events and then read as events? but maybe it's some sort of polling system somewhere. I don't know

also "fastish" is nothing. people type 160 words per minute and I don't remember those people saying their keys skipped lol. chances are even if fast you'd be like 120

could also just be a driver bug somewhere or something