By 1982, most users of the Xerox ball mouse were using "special pads" to breakthrough the friction of the ball.
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There is now a pretty well full variety of gigantic factor "gaming grade" mousepads
- In the day one there were only a few such manufacturers: Everglide (arguably the first to come onto the market), fUnc Industries, Icemat, SteelSeries and Ratpadz (made by [H]ard|OCP)
- In 2005, considerable deeper companies followed suit, including Razer, Qpad, Corepad, Xtracpads, X-Ray, Gamerzstuff, Mousepad Ideazon, and Allsop
- These pads are available in a wide combo of sizes to suit the antithetic sensitivity settings that gamers choose
- The Corepad Deskpad XXXL, one of the largest pads on the market, measures 90cm x 45cm.