I was on the fence about buying the Beast Miao after using the HSK Pro 4k, HTR Pro, and X2F beta. As someone who has always fingertip gripped, I was previously using the Pulsar X2 Mini and other "small but normal" mice and made it work. But when I moved to the HSK full time, things started working so much better for me. The Beast Miao is my favorite fingertip grip mouse because of its width, contoured sides, crazy strong construction, and weight. It'll be hard for something to replace this one, I tried the Fenrir Max and found it too wide for my liking.
I used to fingertip both my g305 and my viper ultimate until i switched to the original wired hsk. i used that for around 3 years after modding the cable and now I designed and printed out a zeromouse style shell and am still rocking it.
I suggest running a very slow control pad as with a mouse this light it still glides effortlessly but gives you that extra bit of stability you might want.
Anyway get one, stability issues aren't a thing if you have the right setup and a low sens (and in a game where stability matters you should be running those anyway).
I have probably bought~40-50 mice in my day with very few of them being repeat purchases. The only mouse I could use with my fingertip grip style and enjoy was the Coolermaster MM710 before I tried fingertip mice. Now after all of those purchases I have found almost true love with the HSK (the regular one) and can see myself potentially buying more fingertip mice in the future, but almost never a regular mouse. Definitely not a gimmick but not certainly a game changer.
I see. I think you missed that part? Or I missed reading it. I have a Hati fingertip mouse. Sometimes it's nice. I find having mice of a variety of shapes and also ones that allow a variety of positions helps prevent repetitve strain injuries. My favorite shapes are ZA13-like and FK1-like. If ZA12 was 1mm shorter, it would be the best...
The sensor on the l7 is likely fucking you over because as balanced as it is, fingertip grip prefers your finger be over the sensor, so yeah x2 mini v3 ain't bad
May I also suggest op1, or alternatives on eloshapes, my old main lemokey g1 if on sale, kysona mercury or scyrox v8 shape, Superlight 2c or generically small mice like HSK and htx
Ok so raw fingertip, the hitscan hyper light was option #1 for most (not me I hybrid fingertip and claw), the zero seems decent I feel but never confirmed. Mchose a5 was decent but still relatively long, 122mm I think, but in theory it's pretty good. And software can't really help
Honestly buy a darmoshark m5/keychron m4/g wolves HSK lite first to see if you would prefer raw fingertip/lower click height.
And browse eloshapes, finding mice with similar sensor position, side shape and length to the viper. Easier
Edit: thought you meant fingertip only mice nevermind.
Gwolves might have some of the worst customer service out there.
But the HSK (and HSK2), Fenrir Pro, and Fenrir Asym are the perfect shape and size for small, medium, and large hands respectively.
There are a few other fingertip-only mice Gwolves makes, however they're a lot more niche and obscure so you'll instantly buy them no questions asked or go "huh!?!?!?" The second you look at them.
The software is meh, not as atrocious as Razer/Logi/Steelseries/Corsair/HyperX software, but also not as good as the new ASUS browser software (ASUS has had a glow-up from the worst of the worst software, to a brand new browser software that's actually better than Lamzu and Pulsar software).
The build quality is really good though, so fortunately the terrible customer service is usually avoided.
The owner/creator/founder is a mad-man. Good at making amazing and innovative mice, but at the expense of social decency unfortunately.
If you want a Gwolves alternative, you have:
WLmouse Miao.
Pulsar X2F (wait until V3, V1 has sensor issues, V2 is ok but significantly heavier than it needs to be).
Lamzu fingertip-mouse (unreleased, doesn't have a name, it's Lamzu so it'll be goated but damn it feels like we'll get GTA 6 before a new Lamzu release).
Kysona Uranus Pro (it's a bit tall for my liking, and a fullsize, but damn it's an amazing fingertip mouse and it's insanely cheap like just buy one and take a hacksaw to it and you're good in all honesty, I'm even currently procrastinating on making custom 3D printed shells for it cause it's so cheap but so amazing despite being cheaper than the budget hello-kitty mouse from my local stationary store).
If you want more info, here is a YT video and channel who is specifically a tiny fingertip mouse aficionado:
[https://youtu.be/c8ojtzn9H-8?si=n7znAoeI8WyVuOxb](https://youtu.be/c8ojtzn9H-8?si=n7znAoeI8WyVuOxb)
At this point, print up all the shapes in the 3D printed mouse shape-tester mega-pack first.
Even ordering that through a 3D printing service will be cheaper than continuously buying new mice.
Once you find your niche mouse, if Mchose, Zaopin, Attack-Shark, etc.... haven't made it, look online for a 3D printed shell mod kit for an existing mouse, order the shell mod kit and the mouse it modifies, and enjoy your new niche mouse.
Alternatively, keep using these current mice with new grip styles. I strongly recommend trying MCP-claw (a grip style I was heavily opposed to, until I tried it out, and discovered that it's actually amazingly comfortable) which is where you slot the top-side ridge of the mouse between the knuckles on your palm, and the only other part of your palm that touches the mouse is (sometimes) the thumb portion of your palm. For some mice they slot between your ring and pinky finger knuckle, for others your middle and ring finger knuckles (the Kysona Uranus Pro is a rare mouse for having a central ridge in the middle of the mouse to slot between your pointy and middle finger knuckles).
MCP claw is surprisingly stable, and since it doesn't really on palm contact, you basically have full freedom of motion with it. Not the same as fingertip, but more than any other claw grip.
The MayaX has one such ridge on it's rear hump specifically to slot between your pointy and ring knuckles, with a little indent on the side for your ring and pinky knuckles to rest in. They're very subtle details that you can't really see due to the matte coating, but they're very much there, so give it a try and see if you like it.
If you're a fingertip-main however, the X2 mini (crazylight non-medium, and the final release version of the X2F - current releases of the X2F are still beta and alpha products unfortunately), beast X mini (the beast Miao is effectively the same mouse but with the rear hump smushed so it stops touching your palm), and non-X Maya (soon a fingertip-only version will be announced, supposedly sometime around July according to the current teasers), are all goated fingertip shapes.
The Kysona Uranus Pro is also a goated fingertip shape (though the left mouse button is a bit on the tall side) that also happens to be a goated relaxed-carpal-claw shape as well.
And of course, the Gwolves HSK, Fenrir Asym, and Fenrir Pro, are the 3 respective kings of fingertip grip (which one is for you depends on your hand size, and grip style, some people find the Asym to be perfect and hate the HSK, others hate the Asym and find the HSK to be perfect, 3D print some shape testers or just a few flat cubes that match the side widths and angles so see if you want a wider mouse or a narrower mouse).
But otherwise yeah, either this is a case of the muscles in your hand are currently developing and nothing will feel good for about 6 months. After which everything will feel amazing for about 6 months. After which one specific mouse will feel even MORE amazing for years-life now that your muscles have finished toning up.
Or this is a case of, you meed the shape-tester mega-pack to find the obscure niche mouse that tickles your pickle in just the right way.
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