Mechanical Keyboards

8737 readers

1 users here now

Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

Banner by Jay Zhang on Unsplash

founded 4 years ago

Recommendation for a wireless mechanical split keyboard (rational-racoon.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi, I hope it's okay to ask for recommendations on this sub, if not please just delete my post, or lock it down.

So back to the topic, I came here to ask if anyone could recommend me keyboard. I'm a software dev working 100% from home, therefore the keyboard I'm looking for is mainly used for work related stuff. Outside of work I'll also mainly do browsing, some office stuff and a bit of leisure coding. Gaming is (sadly) nothing I'm doing anymore beside maybe the single day once a year were I'm playing a few hours of factorio or something alike.

Currently I'm mainly using a Logitech MX Keys since my girlfriend got stressed by the sound of my beloved Corsair K70 with blue clicky switches. Since she's not working from home anymore I'm able to go back to a mechanical keyboard. I would like to switch to one of those fancy split keyboard things since their ergonomics actually seems to be way better then the one of a classical keyboard. I'd also like it to be wireless since I reorganized my desk and actually managed to get a nice cable free desk. Thing is, when I was looking around I found some wireless ergonomic keyboards but most of them were no real split keyboards and almost all of them had rubber domes and no mechanical switches. The mechanical ones I found were all cabled bound and for some reason also incredibly expansive. E.g. I'd really liked the Moonlander thing but it's already at close to 400 euros, I also liked the ultimate hacking keyboard even more, since one is able to attach a small trackball to it but it's also cable bound and incl. vat and shipping to Germany it's above 600 euros...

So to sum it up, I'd be really thankful if anyone of you has some suggestion for a nice mechanical wireless split keyboard.

Thanks

top 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My go to is always lily58 pro, but that's going to be a DIY build. On the flip side, you'll have way more customization options (eg. Switches that are not too loud).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hopped around different ergo boards for about a year before settling on a Mistel MD770, which has been going strong for nearly 3 years. Basically a standard compact board just chopped in half. Not too many bells and whistles, but I find I don't really care about that. Relatively cheap at ~$200 USD and no soldering needed. It just works out of the box. :-)

For me, a split + slight interior tilt was all I needed to get fully comfy. Tenting, ortholinear, columnar, dvorak etc were a pain to learn or just superfluous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure of your budget or thoughts on some DIY. If you don't have the time to game, you might not have time to solder... In that case I'd recommend looking at options from Kinesis: https://kinesis-ergo.com/products/#keyboards

You can also look through here (https://golem.hu/boards/) for some diy options if you'd prefer that route. Kukkurovaca had a much more detailed explanation. (Hi Kukkurovaca, cool to see you here instead of on discord!)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello internet stranger, do you know if the Kinesis are hot swappable? They do not mention either way on their product discriptions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Based on descriptions on their website it looks like they aren't... Maybe it'd be possible to desolder one and put on new switches yourself, but that's a lot of work and if you don't have the gear/experience for it it can be frustrating or destructive.

There is a custom service listed with a whole lot of choice. I've found over time I value hotswap less, both as I get to know what switches I like and also because hotswap can cause decision fatigue. If my switches are soldered in I feel more secure in not thinking about changing them.

~~Of course now I just get more boards instead oh no help~~

load more comments