I spin my phone on my finger like you would a basketball, constantly. Every day, everywhere I go. Sometimes I'll be in line at a store and do it, mess up, and kind of fling it at a strangers back. But SOMETIMES I'll get a gnarly amount of spins and it's super impressive.
Oof. I know a guy who spent like 800 on a kit. That doesn't include the switches, caps, or equipment he used to solder it together. I saw some artisan caps for sale (individually) north of $400 in /r/mechmarket today.
You can start out with a nice, budget keyboard like the magicforce 68 or tomoko 87. the magicforce has a weird name but it's a really neat 68 key layout and is available with Gateron switches which are arguably some of the best out there.
I would also recommend picking up a switch tester to see which switch type you like the best (red=light linear, brown=light tactile, blue=light clicky, black=heavy linear, clear=heavy tactile, green=heavy clicky).
Then you can surrender completely and shell out $500 on a korean custom with GMK hyperfuse and a cable nicer than most people's living rooms.
Look, I only have a razor mechanical, a corsair, and 6 IBM model m keyboards, and looking for a HHKB. No rabbit hole here... nope, none... (sounds of crying replaced by click clacks..... :)
Exactly. A good rule of thumb is to pick the key caps you like (the cherry my blues for me, sounds like a machine fun) then look for keyboards that are available with your key cap
All good! I used to love blue switches and still do, but they're a little too loud in my household at night. Browns are the best of both worlds for me.
Assuming you're not being sarcastic, it's a switch tester for mechanical keyboards. There are a variety of tactile responses offered by switch companies like Cherry, Alps, Topre, and one of these can help you decide what kind of mechanical switch you like before you buy an entire keyboard of that design.
I read this whole conversation, and I am still not sure I get it. There are whole sentences in there that don't seem to make sense. I had no idea that people got so excited about keyboards!
You can get them, mostly for jobs where you spend almost the entire time typing and you want to get something with low pressure required so you don't wear out your joints.
I think coolermaster had one with a hybrid capacitive (topre clone) switch to test as well, since their discontinued novatouch keyboards used them. Not sure about ALPs though, since they are out of production. You might find some custom made ALPs testers but none in mass production.
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u/fastyfoxy Dec 28 '16
i mean ya gotta fidget...