Buying guide Computer & Office

Wrist rests, all twenty say memory foam, and the length is what has to fit

By Khizar Published 25 Sept 2026

The short answer

Prices in GBPeach row carries the day it was read

Best overall, and the one sold by keyboard length Wrist Rest for Keyboard and Mouse Computer The only listing that treats length as the decision it is. The same PU covered memory foam bar comes in 155mm for a mouse, 360mm for a keyboard without a number pad and 440mm for a full size one, with the long one measured at 440 by 80 by 20mm in its own photograph. PU wipes clean, which on a desk with a mug on it matters more than the foam. Plain, sensible, several colours £5.10checked 18 Oct 2026 Check price opens in a new tab

The cheapest, and the classic mouse pad New Wrist Rest Mouse Pad Memory Foam The ordinary mouse pad with a raised cushion along the front edge, in five plain colours, at the lowest price on this page. A smooth fabric surface for the mouse and a soft bump for the heel of the hand. If what you want is a mouse pad that is slightly kinder than a flat one, this is all it needs to be £0.61checked 28 Sept 2026 Check price opens in a new tab

The matching set Memory Foam Keyboard Wrist Rest Set Gradient A long keyboard bar and a mouse pad with its own cushion, sold together in a gradient colour and measured in its photographs. Buying the two at once means the heights match, which is the point of a set. Rubber non slip base, several colours, a fair price for two pieces £6.95checked 18 Oct 2026 Check price opens in a new tab

The one that prints every size Lollipop Design Silicone Wrist Mouse Pad Shaped like a lollipop and a stick of rock, and far more usefully, the only listing that prints every dimension on the photographs: the mouse pad 19 by 24cm, the keyboard bar 36 by 8 by 2cm. Thirty six centimetres is the width of a keyboard without a number pad. If your keyboard has one, the bar will stop short £4.54checked 18 Oct 2026 Check price opens in a new tab

If you want a maker's name on it UGREEN Mouse Pad Wrist Support Ergonomic The only listing with a recognised brand, UGREEN, which also makes cables and chargers. A mouse pad with a cushioned wrist support, a 5mm thickened base and a fabric top. It is one of the two dearest listings here for what is recognisably the same object, and the thing you are paying for is somebody identifiable standing behind it £13.18checked 18 Oct 2026 Check price opens in a new tab

If you want it to look like something Angel Wings Shaped Keyboard Mouse Pad Memory A keyboard bar and a mouse rest shaped like a pair of angel wings, in white or black, photographed on a clean white desk. Of the decorative rests on this page it is the one that is still a proper full width keyboard rest rather than a small ornament, so the shape costs you nothing in use £5.27checked 18 Oct 2026 Check price opens in a new tab

Twenty wrist rests for a keyboard and a mouse, none handled here. The soft thing that goes in front of a keyboard, bought after an afternoon of typing on a hard desk edge.

All twenty say memory foam. All twenty say ergonomic. None says how long it is.

Two words that describe the whole shelf

Every title on this page contains memory foam and every title contains ergonomic. When a word is on all twenty listings it tells you nothing about any one of them. One listing’s own first photograph calls its cushion soft silicone, while its title says memory foam, which shows how loosely the word is used.

Three products under one name

What it is	Roughly how many
For the mouse hand: a pad with a cushion, or a small standalone cushion	7
A long bar for the keyboard, mostly sold with a matching mouse rest	11
Something else: a strap on cushion, a sliding palm rest	2

So the first decision is not the foam, it is which hand. Somebody who types all day wants the long bar. Somebody who is mostly on the mouse wants the pad.

The length has to match your keyboard

This is the number that decides a keyboard rest, and no title gives it. The photographs that do give sizes show:

Length	Suits
36cm	A keyboard without a number pad
40cm	Most full size keyboards, a little short
44cm	A full size keyboard with a number pad

A bar that is too short leaves one hand on the desk edge. One that is too long overhangs and gets in the way of the mouse. One listing sells the same rest in 155, 360 and 440mm precisely so you can match it, and that is why it is the first pick.

And the height is always the same

Where a keyboard bar gives a thickness, it is 1.8cm or 2cm, every time. That sits comfortably in front of an ordinary low keyboard of the kind that comes with a desktop computer. A tall mechanical keyboard rises higher at the front edge than anything on this page, and nothing here is built to match it.

The claims to ignore

Several listings sell their cushions as something medical: relieving fatigue, relieving pain, avoiding the following symptoms, massage patterns. A wrist rest is a soft surface to put your hand on. Whether it helps any particular person’s wrists is a question for that person and possibly their doctor, and no listing on this page is in a position to answer it.

This page picks none of the listings that make those claims. Three more were refused before they reached the site at all, because the claim was in the title.

Side by side

Prices in GBP. Each row carries the date its price was read.

Product	Price	Why it is here	Where to buyLink
Best overall, and the one sold by keyboard length Wrist Rest for Keyboard and Mouse Computer Ergonomic	£5.10checked 18 Oct 2026	The only listing that treats length as the decision it is. The same PU covered memory foam bar comes in 155mm for a mouse, 360mm for a keyboard without a number pad and 440mm for a full size one, with the long one measured at 440 by 80 by 20mm in its own photograph. PU wipes clean, which on a desk with a mug on it matters more than the foam. Plain, sensible, several colours	Check opens in a new tab
The cheapest, and the classic mouse pad New Wrist Rest Mouse Pad Memory Foam Superfine Fibre	£0.61checked 28 Sept 2026	The ordinary mouse pad with a raised cushion along the front edge, in five plain colours, at the lowest price on this page. A smooth fabric surface for the mouse and a soft bump for the heel of the hand. If what you want is a mouse pad that is slightly kinder than a flat one, this is all it needs to be	Check opens in a new tab
The matching set Memory Foam Keyboard Wrist Rest Set Gradient Design	£6.95checked 18 Oct 2026	A long keyboard bar and a mouse pad with its own cushion, sold together in a gradient colour and measured in its photographs. Buying the two at once means the heights match, which is the point of a set. Rubber non slip base, several colours, a fair price for two pieces	Check opens in a new tab

What is good

What you can settle before you buy

Decide what the rest is for first. This shelf is mostly two products under one name: a cushion for the mouse hand, and a long bar that sits in front of a keyboard, often sold together. Which one you want depends on which hand you are thinking of.
For a keyboard rest, match the length to the keyboard. The photographs that give sizes show 36cm, 40cm and 44cm bars. A full size keyboard with a number pad is roughly 44cm wide, one without the number pad roughly 36cm. One listing sells the same rest in 155, 360 and 440mm for exactly that reason.
Every keyboard bar height on this page is about 2cm. Where a keyboard bar gives a thickness it is 1.8cm or 2cm. That suits an ordinary low keyboard. A tall mechanical keyboard sits higher at the front edge than any rest here.
They are cheap and the cover matters more than the foam. Most cost £3 to £8. A wipeable PU cover survives a coffee; a fabric one looks nicer and stains. Several listings let you choose.

What is not great

What to read twice

Memory foam and ergonomic are on all twenty titles. A word every listing uses cannot help you choose between them. One listing's own first photograph calls its cushion soft silicone while its title says memory foam.
No title gives a size. Not a length, not a width, not a height. The numbers are in the photographs of about half the listings, and the rest leave you to guess whether the bar will overhang your keyboard or stop short of it.
Several listings make claims about your wrists that a cushion cannot make. Relieving fatigue, relieving pain, avoiding symptoms, massage. A wrist rest is a soft thing to rest your hand on. This page picks none of the listings that sell it as more than that, and three more were refused before import for health claims in the title.
A third of the shelf is decoration. Cats, pigs, clouds, dumplings, angel wings and a lollipop. Nothing wrong with that, and it is worth knowing that in most of those listings the shape is the point and the support is secondary.
Two of the twenty are different objects. A fabric cushion that straps around your wrist, and a small palm rest on feet that slides along with the mouse. Both are sold as wrist rests and neither sits on the desk like the others.