Day one with the MX Vertical I missed a click on a Slack DM and accidentally archived a conversation I needed. Day two I dragged a folder into the wrong place in Finder twice. Day three I caught my hand drifting back toward my old mouse in the corner of the desk and forced myself to keep using the new one. By the end of week one I had measurably done less work — not by guesswork, by the activity tracker I keep open all the time — and I was beginning to wonder if I had spent $100 on a desk ornament.
Day ten was the day something clicked. I don't know how else to describe it; the angle stopped feeling weird, my fingers stopped overshooting, and by the end of that week my cursor accuracy on the small UI elements I work with all day was approaching what it had been on a normal mouse. By week three I was at roughly 90 percent of my baseline accuracy. By week four the dull ache that used to settle into my right wrist around 3pm, the one I had been ignoring for two years, was gone. By week six I had stopped thinking about it entirely.
That is the whole pitch. The MX Vertical works, and the first week is the price you pay for it working.
The hardware is recognizably Logitech MX-class. The shell is matte plastic with a textured grip on the thumb side, the build is solid enough that I dropped it onto hardwood without damage, and the multi-device pairing with Logi Flow lets it slide between my laptop and my desktop without me ever pressing a button. Battery life is months at a time, and the USB-C quick charge gives you several hours of use from a one-minute plug-in. After six weeks of eight-hour days my battery indicator was still around 60 percent, which is the kind of headline number I usually distrust until I live with it.
The complaints are real. There is no horizontal scroll, which on a heavy spreadsheet day means shift-scrolling all the time and feeling like a primitive person while you do it. The scroll wheel itself is a normal notched wheel — no MagSpeed free-spin like its sibling the MX Master, which is the upgrade I most miss. The DPI button sits on the top spine where you'll hit it by accident in the first week and never on purpose afterward, though it's at least remappable in Logi Options+. And the mouse is genuinely bulky; at 4.7 inches tall and 135 grams, if your hand is small you will not enjoy the size.
This is also not a gaming mouse. The 57-degree angle is the whole point for ergonomics and the whole problem for fast-twitch aim. I tried a Marvel Rivals session with the MX Vertical and gave up after ten minutes; the angle that's perfect for hours of email is a disaster for flick shots. Keep a second mouse for play.
The right way to think about this purchase is not as a mouse upgrade. It is as a piece of medical equipment for the specific class of computer worker whose wrist is starting to send signals. $100 is a small fraction of what an ergonomic consultant or a physical therapy session costs, and if it works for you the way it worked for me, it pays for itself in the back half of a single workday. If you've been wearing a brace or icing your forearm at night, this is the cheapest serious intervention I know of.
Verdict: Buy this if your wrist has been complaining and you can afford to be 15 percent less productive for one week.