Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
Without first uploading new firmware, I found that typing the upper left key is a backtick (`), the bottom left key (Pn) between the left Ctrl and left Alt maps to Super_L and the Fn key between the right Alt and right Win key maps to Super_R. The Win key was not mapped. This seems to map to the custom layout as described at https://github.com/VinnyCordeiro/tmk_keyboard/blob/master/keyboard/s60-x/README.md#8--custom
Here is a annotated picture of the mappings I am seeing:
1 Standard - ANSI
The standard keymap is the one that is pre-flashed on the S60-X.