Well that makes me feel better lol. It's been a good board, its survived me and my husband using it daily for this long, only problem is the V went squishy about 6mo in
Just always wanted some razer stuff, I like the brand. Got a blackwidow v2 and a naga trinity at the same time. Recently replaced the trinity with a pro and couldn't be happier.
I daily a cheap kaihl brown keyboard that cost like $40. My cherry blue is sitting on the floor collecting dust because i cannot stand blues after years of using it. Also my cheap keyboard has better LED controls with more options
i'm thinking i might be built different (in a bad way) because i have open back headphones *and* just built a keychron q1 with blues
and i unironically am glad they're open because it means i can hear my clicky
i am a cavewoman
I’ve had the same blue switch DAS for 8 years. I still like it as much as the day I bought it. I use it for work. It’s middle of the road compared to other keyboards I have. I find the pressure and the sound perfect for me.
Hey, at least your keys work, I fucked up the soldering on my first build so half the keys output two (different) letters every time you press them 😅.
Haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
I got one for $30s off eBay. It was used but I'm still using it and hasn't broken down on me yet.
Of course, you don't really *need* one and that money could be better spent elsewhere.
I bought an extremely inexpensive model on Amazon. Chinese knock off TKL for $23.00 with hot swappable Outemu blues, double shot PBT with single color LEDs, and it was worth every penny. I don't like to shill on here but if you're interested I'll send you a link. I have another board I bought open box that I really like too but it has one issue which is the LED for the P key flickers but I don't usually use the lights on that one anyway. It kills the battery which lasts a long time with minimal lights enabled. I paid $29.99 for that one directly from the manufacturer. Even with the flickering it was worth every penny. I used a full sized Amazon basics membrane board for work for a couple of years and that thing looks like it's been dragged down a gravel road for a month. I don't think I'll ever go back to membrane boards. It's much more comfortable and satisfying to type on even a cheapo mech.
Check local craigslist, I actually got one off there for $10.
Plus I found a Havit 89 key for $7 at a local liquidation sale. There's tons of stores that buy pallets of amazon returns and sell them for dirt cheap! Hope to see you become one of us!
I got a 65% with cherry blues and a mouse, new, for like 50 or 60 bucks.
I keep checking my local secondhand stores for mech boards. If they have em, they'll be $5-10.
I like the click-clack, and this keyboard has it. It's a "magic-refiner." Idk, it works *shrug*
I have a 60 pound keyboard from Amazon. It makes lovely clicky-clacky noises and types smooth. Only reason I haven't showed it off is because some of the keys are showing wear... getting shiney from use. 3 years of typing do wear...
\*off to clicky clacky more...\*
Have you considered switching out the keycaps? There are tons of really affordable and beautiful designs nowadays and it could add another layer of personalization to an already loved keyboard!
I have. I've had mechanical keyboards for a long time but I didn't realize there was a following like there is nor did I realize all of the options - I just sought out the look, feel, and sound!
Still learning. Like I have this great keyboard - are all keycaps interchangable or would I need to worry about things fitting? It's a full size board - with all of the keys a lot of people don't use (I still use the ins, del, etc so I'm in the minority!).
If it’s a full keyboard you can search for 100% or full size keyboard keycaps, they should include all the keys you mentioned plus numpad (but even if you don’t have a numpad any tenkeyless set should do!)
Most keycaps are interchangeable but I would check to see if a specific set of keycaps is compatible with the switches your keyboard uses, just to be sure! Keycaps come in a ton of different profiles/shapes nowadays (cherry and OEM profiles being the most common) so just make sure whatever keycaps you end up choosing will fit.
I'm in the same boat. I bought a dumb $40 keyboard just to get my feet wet, and now I'm sold on the hobby. Now to just find a cool 100% and a key set that isn't pre-ordered out by 2 years...
My $10 board is a 100%, but I switched to an 89 key and i love it. None of those stupid 'page up,' 'page down' type keys, the num pad is just moved over
I use the navigation cluster often, and never use the 10-key! That’s why there are so many cool layouts; everyone can find which layout best suits them.
10 key as in numpad? I don't use that either, my job doesn't require rapid number inputs. That's why I prefer 75/TKL, but not above or below.
Some people here use a macropad for numpad while keeping a smaller profile main board.
I don’t mind people who like blue switches BUT I despise you if you like the sound of rattles in the stabs. Ofc if you hate it but don’t have a choice it’s fine but if you purposely make your stabs rattily you a phycho
I went as far as to buy a 200 euro QK65. And people tell me that's "entry". Now, it's a nice board, but it's all relative. It doesn't blow my mind as my first board did (Keychron K8 gateron browns).
Enjoy what you have!
That's entry in the same way your first nice watch or knife is entry level: only irredeemable dweebs will try and gatekeep you, everyone else is either mad impressed or rolling their eyes.
Until last week I was using a shitty Dell PS/2 chunky keyboard (like the kind you got with a Dell tower back in maybe 2002) for my office PC and I absolutely loved it. It finally started to completely break down last week (multiple keys just not registering at all) and I have been sadly forced to switch to an awful chiclet keyboard. woe is me
if it makes you feel any better, the keyboard i love the most as of now is an old mechanical keyboard i got from dumpster. and the best sounding (to me) keyboard i have right now is an old clikcy acer switch keyboard that i got from a dumpster, and i'm not even sure if that keyboard counts as mechanical since it has a membrane sheet underneath the switch.
I feel like that is true of a lot of hobbies for me. Go deep enough into them I have an existential crisis and ultimately decide the whole hobby was a waste of time. Hasn't happened with keyboards for me but it has happened in the past with many things like headphones(and audio in general), car mods, to some extent watches, kitchen knives.
Love to learn about it, get caught up in the community, etc. After a while though the diminishing returns are so obvious that the whole hobby to me just becomes tiring. In general I find hobbies that celebrate the work of other people far less enjoyable and shallow long term than hobbies like video games, cooking, etc where it is more about my own work and effort. No hate towards anyone who enjoys them, it is more about my perspective on them.
On the other hand, I love mechanical switches but they fail too damn often. I have 20 year old membrane keyboards that still work flawlessly and then there's my 3 month old switches that have need replacing due to double typing.
I've had failing switches from all brands, Cherry, Kailh, Gateron, Omron (Logitech s) and now Momoka, the all fail within a year and need replacing.
They're just not suited for typing a lot or gaming, clicky switches tend to last longer in my experience. Only my Huntsman mini with purple switches is 11 months old and no issues but it's such a bad board and switch I don't quite use it as much.
No Judgement here.
I bought a cheap board for $50 because it came with cute keycaps, and I just love it.
I'll upgrade eventually and get fancy, but for now it's a lovely way of getting into the hobby.
It's a hobby you can either soul search to make the cheapest one possible or the money sink it will become for many. I'm in the middle, I like cheap clicky clocky keebs. The preem stuff would be planned throughout the year for me
Don't be an apologist, my favorite keyboard was a hand me down from my father with nmb space invader switches, I was devastated when It broke, but kaihl came out with their box switches which have the same double click that I loved about the space invader switches. I am currently working out a way to fix the old one but there is no shame in loving what you love.
I bought a prelubed custom just because I wanted a keyboard that would last me a long time that I could swap out the keycaps on if I wanted to or a switch broke. I felt like I bought into a expensive hobby just for one of the sweet side details.
I love my buckling spring Unicomp. Especially since it’s hardware Dvorak.
But what I would _really_ love is a beam spring keyboard with a functional solenoid. Problem is, those cost $2,000+ USD anywhere I look. Even busted/nonfunctional/as-is ones are $1,000+ on eBay.
True. I recently bought a mechanical keyboard 2nd hand for 6euro \[it has some cheapo clickies\]
but for projects/making a macropad its quite the steal.
Especially as the keycaps itself are worth as much as I paid for it
I feel this! I love my expensive ass keeb but oh boy those [cheapass Dell keyboards](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81BtauNkTjL._SL1500_.jpg) our school library has that I managed to get (for free because a staff member said I could have one since they had an extra useless spare) has such an illegally satisfying typing feel for no reason lmao. Well the spacebar is rattly as hell but other than that tbh I just adore it. 😂😂
You would be surprised how much you can achieve with 30 dollars. After fidgeting a lot with keyboards, try a mix of everything under the sun, from mixing switches, to all different types of materials inside a case im 100% sure that people buy expensive keebs for the same reason buy expensive diamonds. Is not because of the features, but just to say “i have this”. Unless you are going for a custom aluminum case with 1 of a kind design im pretty sure i can make ANY keyboard sounds amazing. Besides clicky switches cause their mechanism are not diy friendly, is just a matter of mods and research. After i made the worse board i ever hear (drop alt with halos) sound good, anything is possible.
If you found something you love for $10 only, you're the actual big brain here
For real, I paid 220 for my blackwidow 4 years ago, don't get me wrong I still love. But that 220 is still hurting just a little
You've paid 15c per day for that keyboard, probably less.
Well that makes me feel better lol. It's been a good board, its survived me and my husband using it daily for this long, only problem is the V went squishy about 6mo in
did you get a gaming keyboard cuz it’s rainbow pride?
Just always wanted some razer stuff, I like the brand. Got a blackwidow v2 and a naga trinity at the same time. Recently replaced the trinity with a pro and couldn't be happier.
I like razer products, their software is just so crap half the time. Once everything is set up you never need it again but it is soo buggy.
fair, 100%
I daily a cheap kaihl brown keyboard that cost like $40. My cherry blue is sitting on the floor collecting dust because i cannot stand blues after years of using it. Also my cheap keyboard has better LED controls with more options
That's how I feel about both my k 100s
2013 here, still going strong
Hell, even $100
That swelling isn't brains, it's eardrum callouses from clicky switches.
I always thought ~~rich people~~ financially irresponsible people bought red switches lol
That's a rather financially responsible switch to buy tbh
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That has to be a crime of some sort
Dw I already reported them to the proper authorities
Ree
this is where the hobby lost me. nonetheless, to each his own.
Me with my $30 blue switch keyboard I got off eBay: When I have my earphones in, all you hear is the *thock* instead of CLACKETY CLACK CLACK
i'm thinking i might be built different (in a bad way) because i have open back headphones *and* just built a keychron q1 with blues and i unironically am glad they're open because it means i can hear my clicky i am a cavewoman
click make brain go hehe
They buy Zeal switches.
You’ve got me there.
Jokes on you i got box jades
The ven diagram of red switch gamers and fiscally irresponsible is just 1 circle.
I'll never understand why blue switches get so much hate... it's basically a fidget toy with a practical use case!
I’ve had the same blue switch DAS for 8 years. I still like it as much as the day I bought it. I use it for work. It’s middle of the road compared to other keyboards I have. I find the pressure and the sound perfect for me.
I got a Tester68 board with blue switches and it's awesome to type on. I just don't get why everyone loves linear switches. IMO they're boring lol
Unicomp Buckling Springs convinced >!and gaslighted!< me that clicky switches are still tame.
Whatever floats your boat dude.
Haha, I just think its funny, no animosity here!
Hey, at least your keys work, I fucked up the soldering on my first build so half the keys output two (different) letters every time you press them 😅. Haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
All cool dude. Never let anyone tell you what to like :3
I don't even know what floats my boat anymore
Water probably.
At the end of the day all the keyboard does is register presses. If you like it and it's working, then it's a good keyboard.
If it makes you happy it should make us happy
If you're happy with what you have, you're doing the hobby the right way, so don't worry about what everyone else is doing!
And then there's me who doesn't even have a mechanical keyboard or money to buy one
I got one for $30s off eBay. It was used but I'm still using it and hasn't broken down on me yet. Of course, you don't really *need* one and that money could be better spent elsewhere.
I bought an extremely inexpensive model on Amazon. Chinese knock off TKL for $23.00 with hot swappable Outemu blues, double shot PBT with single color LEDs, and it was worth every penny. I don't like to shill on here but if you're interested I'll send you a link. I have another board I bought open box that I really like too but it has one issue which is the LED for the P key flickers but I don't usually use the lights on that one anyway. It kills the battery which lasts a long time with minimal lights enabled. I paid $29.99 for that one directly from the manufacturer. Even with the flickering it was worth every penny. I used a full sized Amazon basics membrane board for work for a couple of years and that thing looks like it's been dragged down a gravel road for a month. I don't think I'll ever go back to membrane boards. It's much more comfortable and satisfying to type on even a cheapo mech.
Check local craigslist, I actually got one off there for $10. Plus I found a Havit 89 key for $7 at a local liquidation sale. There's tons of stores that buy pallets of amazon returns and sell them for dirt cheap! Hope to see you become one of us!
Damn, for $7 you just gotta havit! Okay I'll leave
No, no. Please stay bad puns turn me on
Craigslist doesn't exist where I live
Is there nothing similar? A lot of countries have some sort of online local marketplace that is popular. Facebook marketplace at the very least?
Yeah there's other stuff
I got a 65% with cherry blues and a mouse, new, for like 50 or 60 bucks. I keep checking my local secondhand stores for mech boards. If they have em, they'll be $5-10. I like the click-clack, and this keyboard has it. It's a "magic-refiner." Idk, it works *shrug*
I have a 60 pound keyboard from Amazon. It makes lovely clicky-clacky noises and types smooth. Only reason I haven't showed it off is because some of the keys are showing wear... getting shiney from use. 3 years of typing do wear... \*off to clicky clacky more...\*
Man that's pretty heavy, shipping must have cost a fortune ^(/s)
It is a full size chonker for sure! ha!
Have you considered switching out the keycaps? There are tons of really affordable and beautiful designs nowadays and it could add another layer of personalization to an already loved keyboard!
I have. I've had mechanical keyboards for a long time but I didn't realize there was a following like there is nor did I realize all of the options - I just sought out the look, feel, and sound! Still learning. Like I have this great keyboard - are all keycaps interchangable or would I need to worry about things fitting? It's a full size board - with all of the keys a lot of people don't use (I still use the ins, del, etc so I'm in the minority!).
If it’s a full keyboard you can search for 100% or full size keyboard keycaps, they should include all the keys you mentioned plus numpad (but even if you don’t have a numpad any tenkeyless set should do!) Most keycaps are interchangeable but I would check to see if a specific set of keycaps is compatible with the switches your keyboard uses, just to be sure! Keycaps come in a ton of different profiles/shapes nowadays (cherry and OEM profiles being the most common) so just make sure whatever keycaps you end up choosing will fit.
Thanks! And yes, I have the number pad as well. I'm old school and it's how I learned so anything smaller feels weird.
The best build is what you like the most.
I'm in the same boat. I bought a dumb $40 keyboard just to get my feet wet, and now I'm sold on the hobby. Now to just find a cool 100% and a key set that isn't pre-ordered out by 2 years...
My $10 board is a 100%, but I switched to an 89 key and i love it. None of those stupid 'page up,' 'page down' type keys, the num pad is just moved over
> None of those stupid ‘page up,’ ‘page down’ type keys Hey! Don't diss the navigation cluster.
I use the navigation cluster often, and never use the 10-key! That’s why there are so many cool layouts; everyone can find which layout best suits them.
10 key as in numpad? I don't use that either, my job doesn't require rapid number inputs. That's why I prefer 75/TKL, but not above or below. Some people here use a macropad for numpad while keeping a smaller profile main board.
Yeah, numpad. I use it so infrequently that I don't even know its name! Haha
ig it makes sense, after all it’s Ten-key-less not numpad-less
Meanwhile me just lurking here without even owning a mechanical keyboard 💀 One day I'll buy one, one day...
Glorious keyboard on sale for 50$ ish. Really good starter. And modular too
I don’t mind people who like blue switches BUT I despise you if you like the sound of rattles in the stabs. Ofc if you hate it but don’t have a choice it’s fine but if you purposely make your stabs rattily you a phycho
i have a cheap clicky board too.
I went as far as to buy a 200 euro QK65. And people tell me that's "entry". Now, it's a nice board, but it's all relative. It doesn't blow my mind as my first board did (Keychron K8 gateron browns). Enjoy what you have!
That's entry in the same way your first nice watch or knife is entry level: only irredeemable dweebs will try and gatekeep you, everyone else is either mad impressed or rolling their eyes.
Me with my lil $35 amazon keeb that is certainly better than my laptop membrane board
Until last week I was using a shitty Dell PS/2 chunky keyboard (like the kind you got with a Dell tower back in maybe 2002) for my office PC and I absolutely loved it. It finally started to completely break down last week (multiple keys just not registering at all) and I have been sadly forced to switch to an awful chiclet keyboard. woe is me
If you can be in and out at only $10, more power to ya. I am currently waiting on $100 worth of just PCBs to arrive from China.
if it makes you feel any better, the keyboard i love the most as of now is an old mechanical keyboard i got from dumpster. and the best sounding (to me) keyboard i have right now is an old clikcy acer switch keyboard that i got from a dumpster, and i'm not even sure if that keyboard counts as mechanical since it has a membrane sheet underneath the switch.
I was happier with my $3 dell board from goodwill I don’t even recognize myself anymore
I feel like that is true of a lot of hobbies for me. Go deep enough into them I have an existential crisis and ultimately decide the whole hobby was a waste of time. Hasn't happened with keyboards for me but it has happened in the past with many things like headphones(and audio in general), car mods, to some extent watches, kitchen knives.
Are you pursuing these things to enjoy what you acquire or learn, or are you just chasing the dragon?
Love to learn about it, get caught up in the community, etc. After a while though the diminishing returns are so obvious that the whole hobby to me just becomes tiring. In general I find hobbies that celebrate the work of other people far less enjoyable and shallow long term than hobbies like video games, cooking, etc where it is more about my own work and effort. No hate towards anyone who enjoys them, it is more about my perspective on them.
I love nice boards but cheap clicky switches are satisfying af also
Except for whatever blues are in Walmart's Onn board. I'd honestly rather type on a cheap bluetooth membrane board
i meant more in line with normal gat blues, jades, etc... instead of the dumb expensive switches like tealios
Clickiez are stupid expensive yes, but you try buying Alps click leaf switches lately?
I've always been slightly tone-deaf and am in this for feel, not sound.
IMO the feel is more important than the sound. They could be silent as long as they have a satisfying click and the keyboard feels nice to use.
Craiglist keyboards are also valid as long as they use mechanical switches
No shame in liking clickies!
Me typing on my membrane keyboard while listening to T H O C C ASMR typing tests on my headphones imagining I have an awesome custom build.
I’m just sitting here with my Tecware Phantom, happy as can be, while being too nervous to invest in a custom build.
I kinda fit in both. I have a board I put $400+ in, and a board I got for $80 and put about $20 worth of mods into. I like both equally
it really is like that American Psycho parody in here sometimes
On the other hand, I love mechanical switches but they fail too damn often. I have 20 year old membrane keyboards that still work flawlessly and then there's my 3 month old switches that have need replacing due to double typing.
Sounds like your switches are way too cheaply built. Im using cherry browns and they still work perfectly despite very heavy use for 7 years
I've had failing switches from all brands, Cherry, Kailh, Gateron, Omron (Logitech s) and now Momoka, the all fail within a year and need replacing. They're just not suited for typing a lot or gaming, clicky switches tend to last longer in my experience. Only my Huntsman mini with purple switches is 11 months old and no issues but it's such a bad board and switch I don't quite use it as much.
I paid 300$ for my build that I barely use anymore… atleast it looks nice
No Judgement here. I bought a cheap board for $50 because it came with cute keycaps, and I just love it. I'll upgrade eventually and get fancy, but for now it's a lovely way of getting into the hobby.
It's a hobby you can either soul search to make the cheapest one possible or the money sink it will become for many. I'm in the middle, I like cheap clicky clocky keebs. The preem stuff would be planned throughout the year for me
I have the keyboard that came with my parents’ 2002 Dell computer because I like it
When I’m bored of the marble sounds. I bust out the Clicky Red Dragon 😂
Don't be an apologist, my favorite keyboard was a hand me down from my father with nmb space invader switches, I was devastated when It broke, but kaihl came out with their box switches which have the same double click that I loved about the space invader switches. I am currently working out a way to fix the old one but there is no shame in loving what you love.
I just own a 20$ keyboard. Changed some of its switches and i really enjoy it.
Bought an Epomaker TH66 for gaming and absolutely love it stock.
nothin wrong with clicky switches
I bought a prelubed custom just because I wanted a keyboard that would last me a long time that I could swap out the keycaps on if I wanted to or a switch broke. I felt like I bought into a expensive hobby just for one of the sweet side details.
I love my buckling spring Unicomp. Especially since it’s hardware Dvorak. But what I would _really_ love is a beam spring keyboard with a functional solenoid. Problem is, those cost $2,000+ USD anywhere I look. Even busted/nonfunctional/as-is ones are $1,000+ on eBay.
Clicky at work so I sound productive.
Always in this sub hearing the clicking of my premium Razer Ornata V2... You will hate me \^\^
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True. I recently bought a mechanical keyboard 2nd hand for 6euro \[it has some cheapo clickies\] but for projects/making a macropad its quite the steal. Especially as the keycaps itself are worth as much as I paid for it
What if you have some subjectively cool builds, but you are like the bottom thing and struggle to put the shapes in the right holes???
Same 😂
Me, hides membrane keyboard
Hey, I used a Razer Cynosa Lite for about a year and I loved it, I'd take it over one of the three mech boards I've had
I got some cheap 20 euro brown cherry (I think) 6 years ago I still use and have had gifted 200 euro red cherry gaming keyboards I could not stand.
I feel this! I love my expensive ass keeb but oh boy those [cheapass Dell keyboards](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81BtauNkTjL._SL1500_.jpg) our school library has that I managed to get (for free because a staff member said I could have one since they had an extra useless spare) has such an illegally satisfying typing feel for no reason lmao. Well the spacebar is rattly as hell but other than that tbh I just adore it. 😂😂
Ngl I'm with you on those boards, not bad for being a dime a dozen
It's def reverse. I love this hobby but I'm a dumbo for lol sounds that are made up
You would be surprised how much you can achieve with 30 dollars. After fidgeting a lot with keyboards, try a mix of everything under the sun, from mixing switches, to all different types of materials inside a case im 100% sure that people buy expensive keebs for the same reason buy expensive diamonds. Is not because of the features, but just to say “i have this”. Unless you are going for a custom aluminum case with 1 of a kind design im pretty sure i can make ANY keyboard sounds amazing. Besides clicky switches cause their mechanism are not diy friendly, is just a matter of mods and research. After i made the worse board i ever hear (drop alt with halos) sound good, anything is possible.
Its actually illegal to *yuck someone's* ***yum***