Not really, it's a matter of cloth texture in the first place. My Corsair MM200XL is definitely smoother/faster than QcK, but still soft (rubber base thickness is right between ordinary QcK and QcK Mass/Heavy). If you want something even faster, you have to go hard though, but I don't think it's that bad with pads that have a rubber base and a plastic surface (like say Roccat Sota).