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
But I'm also getting one of these for my girlfriend. She's used to typing on a macbook keypad, and that has more of a tactile feel to it than the brown switches. It's just that I haven't tried clears yet and don't know it they will be too stiff compared to those macbook keys.
Any thoughts? I figure I'll go with the clears and take the effort to convert them to ergo clears if they don't work out stock.
Incidentally, I find that the browns are are really fast and efficient if I keep my typing light and am alert and awake enough to do that. But if I'm tired and start mashing on the keys a bit, I find I start making a lot of errors and things turn to a slog on the browns. I wonder if clears will help with that, being that much more tactile.