What keyboard should I get?

By straykitsune - updated: 1 year, 6 months ago - 10 messages

By user97495 - posted: 1 year, 8 months ago

A razer keyboard like cynosa chroma
By straykitsune - posted: 1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks :) I will take your suggestion into account when choosing
By user97495 - posted: 1 year, 8 months ago

Your welcome. I just find that the cynosa chroma keyboard is pretty good for its price.
By straykitsune - posted: 1 year, 8 months ago

Just ordered :-) Yep, the price is affordable; I hope the quality is also sufficient. Planning to order also some cute keycaps to customize my new keyboard
By thecrossblade - posted: 1 year, 6 months ago

You should get those "blank" keys, those that have letters on them. This is how you swag on them kids, who type with two fingers, lol.
By straykitsune - posted: 1 year, 6 months ago

you mean the keyboard wihtout symbols? such keyboards, I know, are handed out to schoolchildren to teach them to type without loking at the letters.
By mindmaster - posted: 1 year, 6 months ago

Truthfully, the keyboard vendor doesn't matter as much as what is in it.

Cherry MX Brown = the same switch on any keyboard that it is on.

What I don't recommend is gaming keyboards, as they are spending more money on RGB than the switches and you're likely getting an inferior typing experience.

Essentially there are a few choices:

Cherry Blue versus Brown = Noise versus less noise.

Brown/Blue vs Red = Tactile bump, no bump (linear.) Blue/Brown will give you a feedback resistance while you're pressing them to let you know the key will actuate. Reds will not have this feature and are linear in movement all the way to the key bottoms out. It's a preference there. If you game on the keyboard you want red or brown, as blue is absolutely obnoxious when you use headphones/mic.

Gaming keyboards have silicon and rocker-switch plasti-crap inside that will not consistently trigger the keypresses when you want them. This drastically increases the effort to type on them as well as affecting your consistency. Beyond that, on most of these you will have to fully press the key down to get them to register - a lot more strain on your hands.
Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
By smokemifugottem - posted: 1 year, 6 months ago

There are gaming keyboards with actual mechanical switches, you just need to know what you are looking for.

I will agree though that they are still overpriced and the rgb aesthetic imo is pretty dumb looking. But I'm on the boring side, I just want an old school looking beige keyboard lol.
By straykitsune - posted: 1 year, 6 months ago

Thanks for the detailed answer. Unfortunately or fortunately, my package with the keyboard did not reach me (I ordered cynosa chroma), and I thought about reordering once again cynosa or looking for a new one because I lowkey don’t want to pay for one keyboard two times :( thanks for your answer once again, I will take your answer into account in choosing a new keyboard. aside from it, what do you think about UBOTIE?
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By mindmaster - posted: 1 year, 6 months ago

Are you trying to type or go blind? :D

Seriously, those are some ugly looking keyboards.

Anyway... Things I wouldn't pay extra for: RGB, excessive extra button...

Things I would pay extra for:

Metal frames, actual Cherry switches, good keyboard stands built into the base of the unit, a good wireless/corded setup that has a good 2800+mah battery (rechargable). N-Key rollover.

The metal housing and the Cherry switches are the most important bits to the equation (using the considerations I've already explained in my previous post). You're going to drop a keyboard eventually it would be nice if the whole thing didn't shatter upon impact with the ground. Cherry switches mean TOTALLY REPLACEABLE switches... That means when the keyboard wears out on a few keys you can absolutely just replace those and keep going. RGB lights don't mean anything you aren't looking at the keyboard anyway.