I believe that it "thocks," from what I understand. It sounds also like it's kinda sandy, if you know what I mean. Not sure how to describe it. But yeah, I love this thing to death already.
Anyone else has one? And if so, which one? Which type?
I got a Nuphy 75 v2, for the record, just yesterday.
I got that one on Etsy I believe, let me see if I can find the listing
Ali express
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I done been down this rabbit hole for years :)
I always liked Ducky's keyboards, and I like tactile switches. Started with a One w/MX Brown switches, then progressed to a One 3, also with Browns - but this board had hotswap sockets so I got to play around with different switches without soldering hassle. I found I liked the heavier weight of Clear switches, but I wanted to experiment with smaller form factors, so I got a One 3 SF (65% layout) with factory clears. I loved this thing until I started to develop tendonopathy in both wrists.
I type for a living so I had to figure something else out, and wound up going full enthusiast with a 5x6 dactyl manuform:
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These things look bizarre but god damn, they're ergonomic as FUCK. Form and function are unified. It took me a solid 6 weeks to re-learn how to type but my wrists thank me every day.
I just recently kitted it out with 78g Zilent V2 (silent tactile) switches and low profile DSA keycaps - feels like I've found the holy grail. It's bonkers how much better my typing experience is now.
This is literally a tool of my trade, so fuck it I'm using the best tool I can get. Plus I just love how fucking weird it looks on my desk!
I have a friend that has something like that. Amazing.
I may one day get something like that, but for now, I'll just stick to my current one, which I'm already in love with.
No wrong answers when it comes to THOCK
The Nuphy looks great, kudos! What color switches are you running?
It looks kinda like an NES controller except the space bar is yellow.
Rad. If you pop one of the keycaps off, what color is the stem on the switch?
It just says Slava (Glory). On here I guess that has a different connotation but considering it's accompanied by a hammer and sickle and sputnik I think it's clearly not supporting ukrainian fascists
I have one. It's called an Atrix and it goes CLACK CLACK CLACK.
LOVE THAT SHIT
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I use a Vortex Race 3 with mx-silvers (linear and super light keys) very compact keyboard but it has all the keys I need. I have been using mechanical keyboards since like 2010. I got a couple and I sold/bought various ones over the years. I have tried cherry mx reds/browns/blues and blacks over the years but of the standard switches I like red the most. I do enjoy browns as well.
I do think topre is really cool stuff as well.
My current keyboard below
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I got a black one with a white backlight a while back when I was purging my desktop of all tacky RGB peripherals. That must have been like 2018 or so, still works great especially after I pulled all the keycaps off and deep cleaned it a year ish ago. Feels great but the clicks can get in the way when I'm in a Teams meeting or a Discord call, lol.
Ah, fair enough when it comes to the meetings; I haven't experienced that problem (yet).
Welcome to the the club.
I've got a Keychron Q2 with Gateron Pro Red switches. It's a quite and smooth switch and the brass plate provides such a nice thock sound. I honestly don't type on it enough lol.
Nice! The world of mechanical keyboards has a lot of interesting subcultures and niches for different varieties and styles. There are so many more switch types now it’s hard to keep up.
I love me some good subcultures.
My favorite subculture (although it's becoming increasingly less niche) is anything revolving around the world of analog.
Analog objects are my favorite.
Did you know there was an attempt to make a keyboard with ‘analog’ switches? Like each switch has the ability to measure how far it was pushed or something like that, it was a gamer thing iirc. Don’t think it sold well though.
I’ve become pretty partial to Topre keyboards or other electro-capacitive boards. They have a unique tech and feel that also has a quieter ‘thock’ sound.
Analog keyboards are a whole thing. They caused a controversy in the Trackmania community because the game is balanced for controllers and keyboard to be fairly equal, but analog keyboards gain the best of both worlds so they were far better than any other option for certain races, meaning competitive players were forced to switch to very expensive hardware. The devs had to come up with some complicated rules to deal with that kind of input device.
I used to play Trackmania on keyboard, it worked pretty well. Now I play Rocket League using only keyboard. Those analog keyboards are still around? I thought it was for sure a fad, but I guess online anything can have a niche long tail eventually.
They definitely are still around. I'm sure there are other games where they're relevant, racing is probably the clearest usecase but I wouldn't be surprised if they also could be used for shooters or platformers that have controller support.
Should be nice typing my stories and doing world-building and making notes with this thing.
Good stuff.
I refuse! I recently did another solder on my cheap membrane keyboard from 2009! Keep on trucking!
depending on whether you like that "sandy" feeling, it's possible to lubricate the switches to give them a smoother feeling.
here's a tutorial, but the idea is you open the switches up and apply a very small amount of lubricant with a paintbrush to all the friction points inside.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Not sure how to describe it.
the typical method of describing a mechanical keyboards sound is by seeing what kind of switches they have. for example, i'm currently typing on a keyboard with cherry mx-red equivalents (a linear variety of switch). i have a different keyboard with cherry mx-brown switches (kind of clackity).
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