OMG I love it. I get what I like and not what other people do. Like my modified deck keyboards I am so enamored with. It is strange because the top is silky smooth but just under that is a harder fabric. Well, I guess it is just the "hand" of the fabric. It does not drag at all. As you see, G502 and I can blow it off the mousepad with compressed air from a foot away. So to answer your question I would say it does not drag. It is probably not for gaming at least due to size. It is not slick like a plastic pad but probably the best cloth pad I ever had out of many. Overall if you take care of it it is a extremely high quality product. That pad and the keyboard in the picture are about 23 years old. Do you see any where? 'Nuff said. On the other hand if you are gaming, nonetheless I will say it is probably not fast enough to suit you. It is not slick like a StelSeries cloth pad or whatever. It is kind of a brushed finish. It offers no resistance for my purposes but if you are gaming I would say pass on it. Just being honest.
I just realized I made a typo in the subject line of this thread. Hence my name. I am well known in the coding community and that is my real nickname with other programmers. It has been said I am very talented and in demand but I ruin a ton of code lines with typo's. I do not make coding mistakes with parameters, verbiage Etc. just mistyped entries. This was long before I got sick. Knowing that they still love to hire me.