Which mechanical keyboard should i buy?

Oh btw I'm an idiot and a vortex 3 gets to my house tomorrow.

Middcore wrote:

...in spite of not being a good touch-typist...

It's 2018, brother. Spend that money on Mavis Beacon or whatever the kids use these days to learn to type now that MUDs have gone the way of the dodo.

People in the know use Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing (would recommend a people check it out)

You are putting us on, Icarus Proudbottom was a character cut from early drafts of the Harry Potter books.

Use vim for a job then just learn it dummy.

Mr Crinkle wrote:
Middcore wrote:

...in spite of not being a good touch-typist...

It's 2018, brother. Spend that money on Mavis Beacon or whatever the kids use these days to learn to type now that MUDs have gone the way of the dodo.

Buying Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and learning how, was very possibly the single best decision I ever made as a young person. I'd either read or been told that "if you know how to type, you'll never go hungry", and that ability did indeed keep me eating a couple times, and probably ended up being the single skill I use most in my life. I'm not sure it guarantees employment in the same way, anymore, but it's an incredibly useful thing to know.

Takes about thirty hours. You can do an hour a day for a month, or a half-hour a day for two. After that, it keeps improving, on its own, for the rest of your life.

Mr Crinkle wrote:
Middcore wrote:

...in spite of not being a good touch-typist...

It's 2018, brother. Spend that money on Mavis Beacon or whatever the kids use these days to learn to type now that MUDs have gone the way of the dodo.

MUDs are coming back! Just you wait!

boogle wrote:

Oh btw I'm an idiot and a vortex 3 gets to my house tomorrow.

Update on this: I am returning it because the shift key was broken.

I think a combination of heavy IM usage in college with getting a split key keyboard taught me to type. Split key basically forces you to stop crossing over into the other hands' territory.

Are Corsair K70 or mechanical keyboards in general especially sensitive to liquid? I barely spilled a splash of coffee on the left control button, wiped it up and everything seemed fine. About 10 minutes later my whole keyboard goes berserk.

It’s about 2 years old, and I’ve had more major spills that it recovered from, but it’s just bizarre that a very minimal splash of coffee can render the thing useless for a few hours while it dries out.

The Kinesis Freestyle Edge Split Mechanical Keyboard is on sale for $170 at Massdrop. [Referral link] It's normally $219. More info here.

Edwin wrote:

The Kinesis Freestyle Edge Split Mechanical Keyboard is on sale for $170 at Massdrop. [Referral link] It's normally $219. More info here.

that looks like a great keyboard. I use a pair of ergodox keyboards and the split design is really comfortable

Who will be the first among us to succumb to the allure of the Yogitype?

https://www.yogitype.com/en/features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H_b...

I'm waiting for an "ergonomic" keyboard to come out that looks like the typewriters in Dishonored 2 (which I am fairly certain were inspired by the Hansen Writing Ball).

The yogi type is a neat layout but there is no reason that it isn't programmable. It's laid out such that you can't really glance down at it so why are there different versions. There should be one physical keyboard and you should be able layout the logical order of the keys however you want.

Looks like Das Keyboards is banning people for talking about an open-source utility that replicates their custom software:

https://twitter.com/sebirdman/status...

Keyboards that need custom software are probably not keyboards you want to buy, and connecting one to "the cloud" is goddamn stupid.

Further, there's a claim in that twitter thread that their firmware is vulnerable to exploits and not being fixed.

Thank you all for your advice, I took them into account for myself.

*Legion* wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

The keyboard on my media center system is a Magicforce 68 key small footprint board with browns. The keyboard on my other system is a CM Storm model also with brown switches.

If only there were a wireless one of those (and with low-latency wireless like modern Logitech stuff). I use a Logitech K810 Bluetooth that toggles between my Fire TV and !y HTPC/Steam/emulators box. It's good for what it is but I want something mechanical.

Arise, thread!

The wireless keyboard I want for my living room PC gaming setup apparently exists now, the ASUS ROG Falchion.

Mechanical (with brown switch option, hooray), tenkeyless, and wireless latency measured at only 3.7 ms, compared to 20ms+ for Bluetooth based ones.

Logitech does have a TKL version of the G915, but it's like twice the price, and also a standard TKL layout instead of the 68% size of the ROG. Smaller is definitely preferred for TV tray usage.

Need to get my living room setup upgraded for Battlefield 2042's release.

Oh, and the tenkeyless CODE Keyboard with the MX Clear switches still rules just as much as San Dimas High School Football.

Continues to be one of my best purchases ever. I still don't understand why MX Clears aren't way more popular.

*Legion* wrote:

Oh, and the tenkeyless CODE Keyboard with the MX Clear switches still rules just as much as San Dimas High School Football.

Continues to be one of my best purchases ever. I still don't understand why MX Clears aren't way more popular.

Been rocking one since 2015.

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There's multiple wireless keyboard options around now, including some barebones boards with hotswap sockets so you can pick your own switches and caps and all that.

I mean, if you can find them in stock anyway. Custom keyboard market is a deeply weird thing.

I just dove into this psuedobespoke artisanal rabbit hole, starting with a Keychron Q1. God help me.

I picked up a wireless Red Dragon Draconic K530, which ended up going into the pile, as it was incredibly sporadic in it's connectivity.

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I am now rocking a Logitech G413 Carbon, which I am loving! The red backlit keys and aluminum case look really nice together.

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Apart from the fact that it arrived with the wrong switches, I’m really loving this Q1. Gonna mod it to see how that all works. O

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https://cloudnineergo.com

this thing is awesome

Interesting, but not $170+ interesting. Paying much for a keyboard is still hard for me to consider.
Plus that middle wheel looks obnoxious. I really do like the idea of having extra macros so I could hopefully retain the calculator and media buttons I would lose getting rid of this ancient artifact with which I type now.

But why do they have the attached keypad? I love having a separate numberpad that I can place anywhere, plus ditching the attached numpad I can bring my mouse or touchpad that much closer to my keyboard

*Legion* wrote:

Oh, and the tenkeyless CODE Keyboard with the MX Clear switches still rules just as much as San Dimas High School Football.

Continues to be one of my best purchases ever. I still don't understand why MX Clears aren't way more popular.

My only issue with my CODE keyboard is that the cord is a bit loose on mine. Mine is clicky, though.

The ROG Falchion arrived, and other than the "gamer" aesthetic choices, I am enjoying it.

Especially since my previous living room keyboard was a Bluetooth board with low-profile chiclet keys. Having mechanical keys in my wireless couch gaming setup is definitely a nice quality of life boost for living room PC gaming.

I do wish the layout had a dedicated F-keys row. The 75% layouts of some Keychron keyboards would be nice, but RTINGS warns of their wireless latency, and low latency is more important than the F-row. I also don't want the traditional TKL layout because it's wider and I don't want to sacrifice mouse area on my TableMate Pro XL.

Anyone have thoughts on this keyboard?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...

I've never had a real mechanical keyboard, but a friend of mine has the above one. I tried it out. It feels ok? I didn't notice a huge difference in the keys besides them being louder and "clacky". Maybe I literally don't get the point of a mechanical keyboard, or I've never used a good one to have that epiphany.

Vrikk wrote:

I didn't notice a huge difference in the keys besides them being louder and "clacky". Maybe I literally don't get the point of a mechanical keyboard, or I've never used a good one to have that epiphany.

The idea behind a mechanical keyboard is to take the guesswork out of keypresses (really good for people that type a lot, do a lot of programming, etc). Clacks and switches really is meant to just give you a better typing experience, where you can tell when an actual key gets engaged. They should also have more longevity and be serviceable. I've had mine for over 6 years and honestly I cannot tell that it's aged at all.

Nowadays, you can drop $400+ on a bespoke mechanical keyboard, if that's your thing. To me, it's like an SSD: just getting a good baseline one changes your experience. Sure, more expensive or shiny might be what you end up with, but the differences start showing themselves once you start using them at all.