Drop CTRL (2018) vs PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2

The Drop CTRL (2018) makes for a good, if unremarkable, Mechanical Keyboard for people with a $190 budget.

The PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2, however, is merely mediocre at its $299 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $190 and $320 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the Drop CTRL (2018) and PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2, however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

Two highly trusted sources that perform well-thought-out in-depth testing consider the Drop CTRL (2018) to be a great product - it earned the "Best customization in a snap" title from Laptop Mag and "Other great mechanical keyboards" from Wirecutter (NYTimes) in their respective Mechanical Keyboard roundups, which is a good indication of it being a notable product.

As for the PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2, it wasn't able to earn a top spot in any roundups from trusted sources that conduct their own hands-on testing. Nevertheless, it managed to impress reviewers at GND-Tech, PCmag, Techradar, and Go Mechanical Keyboard enough to make it onto their respective shortlists.

We couldn't find any sources that tested both of these Mechanical Keyboards, so we only analyzed how they performed in reviews from different sites.

We first examined which sources rated each of these best and found that the Drop CTRL (2018) got its highest, 7, rating from Tom's Guide, while the PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2 earned its best, 9.3, score from GND-Tech.

Lastly, in order to better compare them to the rest of their competition, we averaged out their review scores. The PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2 managed to get 7.7 out of 10 - considerably better than the 7.4 review average of Mechanical Keyboards in general - whereas the Drop CTRL (2018) earned 7.0 points.

It should be said that doing a direct Drop CTRL (2018) vs. PFU Happy Hacking Professional 2 comparison might not be entirely fair due to the difference in their prices - some sources don't put much weight on value for money and thus tend to give better review scores to more expensive products.