A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
I do a mix of writing text, coding, and gaming. I like a noticeable tactility, but low force; typing on my old rubber-dome boards is just torture anymore, and even the Alps scissors in my Thinkpad T60p feel like excessive work to me these days.
I'm looking at this as I've never had the opportunity to really try out Topre-style switches before (and real Topre is way too spendy for that kind of experimentation for me). One of the things I'm looking for an improvement in (besides lower force) is faster repeated keypresses... from a shorter travel and/or an actuation point that's easier to flutter around (the actuation being just below the tactile point in the blues makes this just awkward for me, I basically have to do a full stroke).
So... anyone think I'm likely to be particularly happy or unhappy with this board?