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Tad Fibonacci
I like keyboards. Post your keyboards here and I will rank them from 1 to 10.
This is not in any way, shape or form sexual.
I just like keyboards very much and looking at my own keyboards isn't enough for me anymore.

My rating criteria would be based on:

- The overall aesthetic of the board. This includes, but is not limited to: The shape, material, keycaps, the cable and the layout of the keyboard.
- Build quality. It's gonna be hard to judge a board's build quality through just photos alone, so additional info regarding your keyboard such as how it is constructed, the materials and features that you think would benefit this category would help me rank it more accurately.
- The switches. Again, it's gonna be hard to tell from photos so additional info is much appreciated.
- Typing sounds. Though this requires a typing demonstration so I'm gonna need a video of you typing on your board to judge it properly.
- Additional special features. Basically extra features that might be useful in a keyboard. This includes but is not limited to: Macros, media keys, displays etc. Although anti features that are masked as an extra feature would affect the rating negatively instead.
- Pricing. Some keyboards might be pretty decent, but have a low ranking. That is because pricing is also a criteria I'd like to judge. If a keyboard isn't great, but is very cheap then I won't judge it too harsh. But if a keyboard is very expensive, but doesn't really seem to be worth it, then I'll be harsher while judging it.

I'd like to judge on key feel as well, however obviously I cannot come and feel your keyboard switches so I will only base this judgement on the switches I've tried only.
For the ones that I haven't felt before, I'll refrain from passing judgement on them.

I try to be as fair and accurate as possible with my ratings. However, the criterias in which I use to rate them are very subjective. So at the end of the day, it's just my opinion and yours maybe different than mine regarding the matter and a keyboard which I thought is shit might be to you, a very good keyboard. So don't be too bummed out if your keyboard, which you think is an excellent keyboard, gets a low rating. What matters is that you like it and it's very much up to taste. It's just that my taste is vastly superior.

Also, I don't rate touchscreen and laptop keyboards since they're almost all the same and I don't know enough about them nor am I interested enough in them to find out about them and give out ratings for them.
But generally, I think most of them are shit.
Lapizote
you already know what mine is.
Hydreigon
too lazy to take a pic but...

still the same keyboard that I'm using right now
ClevelandsMyBro
does laptop counts?
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

Hydreigon wrote:

too lazy to take a pic but...

still the same keyboard that I'm using right now
From what I can see, it's just a normal office rubber dome keyboard that you can find anywhere.
Well, nothing wrong with it, but I wouldn't say it's a good keyboard.

Build quality wise, it's probably just a sandwich of 2 plastic pieces with a membrane in the middle. So, not very good.

You can see that some of the letters on the keycap is blurred. Which means the printing methods was either lasering or pad printing. So they're not very durable keycaps.

Overall, not a good keyboard but it works, Nothing outstanding about it.

Edit: One good thing that I suppose I forgot to mention is that it have a stepped capslock key. That's probably about it.

3/10.
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

ClevelandsMyBro wrote:

does laptop counts?
Well, I don't think I'm qualified enough to rate laptop keyboards so no, sorry.
ninore


took one keycap off for switch showcasing purposes (it's a red switch)
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

nedd83 wrote:



took one keycap off for switch showcasing purposes (it's a red switch)
Aesthetics wise, I don't really like it since I don't like gamer looking keyboard overall.

For build quality, it looks to be pretty standard for modern gamer keyboard. Looks like it has a metal mounting plate, probably aluminum and a floating key design without any high bezels. The cable looks to be braided as well.
I don't really like how the floating key design looks, but again this is subjective. But not having bezels means that the key switches would be vulnerable to side knocks.
But overall, the build quality looks to be quite okay.

For switches, it's using red switches. Not sure which brand is it though.
They're light linear switches but they're too light for my liking. But again, this is subjective.
Although red switches are all very similar, depending on the brand the switches can feel quite different.
For my experience, the best linear cherry design red switch is probably Gateron, followed by Kail Box reds. Others feels about the same but Cherry would almost always be the worst.
They're by far the scratchiest that I've felt compared to other clones. Quite ironic considering they're the "original".

The keycaps looks to be doubleshot, so they're very durable. However the stencil fonts are quite ugly imo. But hey, at least it doesn't use those cyber fonts that other gaming keyboards uses.

The board have back lighting but it doesn't look like RGB. Looks like multiple monochrome lights for each row. This is pretty popular on cheap gamer mechanical keyboards.
Although I don't even like proper RBG either so it doesn't really matter to me tbh.

Overall, a cheap, decent, usable board.

5/10
Corne2Plum3
This isn't my exact laptop but the keyboard look like this:
Lapizote
okay fine, here's what mine looks like



pre-loved (and probably uncleaned) for 5 years, babiee
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

This isn't my exact laptop but the keyboard look like this:
Well, I don't know enough about laptop keyboards to rate them properly, sorry.

But most of the time they're just rubber domes with scissors or butterfly looking pieces of plastic on them.
I have yet to tried a laptop keyboard that I thought was good yet. They're all very shallow and flat and some even hurts my finger tips after typing on them for a while.
A full travel keyboard would be much better imo.

Though this is all subjective. I know people who really like laptop and chicklet keyboards and swear by them.
Meguro
ain't no mechanical
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

axl2468 wrote:

okay fine, here's what mine looks like



pre-loved (and probably uncleaned) for 5 years, babiee
This looks horrible. It's probably even worst than a regular rubber dome keyboard.

This looks like Hydreigon's keyboard but worst.
The keycaps are all flat for some reason. I guess they tried to make them flatter to make it looks more slick but I fucking hate flat keycaps. They're very uncomfortable to type on and they makes it harder to find the keys you're trying to type by feel so I have to look at them constantly when typing which slows me down significantly.

Not much else to talk about it either. It's a rubber dome office keyboard. But worst than most other rubber dome office keyvboards.

2/10
KatouMegumi
I'll save you some time. Bloody B110. 1/10
Also, keys on mine already flake off. Double injection my ass.
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

Meguro wrote:

ain't no mechanical
Looks like a cheap Gamer keyboard.
Although it looks better than most gamer keyboards I saw.

Not much else to talk about. It's not much different from a normal office keyboard aside from the hideous cyber gamer font on the keycaps and monochrome backlighting.

I'll give it 3/10.
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

KatouMegumi wrote:

I'll save you some time. Bloody B110. 1/10
Also, keys on mine already flake off. Double injection my ass.
You sure that's the correct model name?
Because I can't find anything about a Bloody B110. The closest I've found is B120.

Or maybe it's so bad that they deleted it from history of mankind lol.
Lapizote

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

2/10
tbh i expected 1/10, but i guess there are worse ones out there, at least this one works.
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

axl2468 wrote:

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

2/10
tbh i expected 1/10, but i guess there are worse ones out there, at least this one works.
Oh trust me, I've experienced a 1/10 keyboard before.
It makes a rubber dome keyboard feels fucking elegant and sophisticated.

Though I suppose it's hard to rate any keyboards here a 1/10 since I can't feel what they're like to type on.
KatouMegumi

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

KatouMegumi wrote:

I'll save you some time. Bloody B110. 1/10
Also, keys on mine already flake off. Double injection my ass.
You sure that's the correct model name?
Because I can't find anything about a Bloody B110. The closest I've found is B120.

Or maybe it's so bad that they deleted it from history of mankind lol.
Aight, it was B120. And as you can see, it is in a sorry state. Double injection sucks.
Lapizote
somehow a cheap 5-year old office keyboard has its keycaps in a better state than a more expensive gamer-oritented keyboard from the same company.
Noob
Not mechanical,just an ordinary discounted gaming keyboard I found on Shopee.

Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

KatouMegumi wrote:

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

KatouMegumi wrote:

I'll save you some time. Bloody B110. 1/10
Also, keys on mine already flake off. Double injection my ass.
You sure that's the correct model name?
Because I can't find anything about a Bloody B110. The closest I've found is B120.

Or maybe it's so bad that they deleted it from history of mankind lol.
Aight, it was B120. And as you can see, it is in a sorry state. Double injection sucks.
From what I can find about it, it's just another rubber dome gamer back lit keyboard.
Not as bad as a 1/10, but not a good board overall.

Also, I can't find anywhere on their website that they say that the keycaps are doubleshot. Although they said the board has "Auto-shot key setting" and "Turbo-shot key setting"... Whatever that means.
Sounds like some marketing bullshit to me.

I'll rate it 3/10.
KatouMegumi
Hey, tad. Hypothetically, how would you rate a Model M?
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

NoobDev wrote:

Not mechanical,just an ordinary gaming keyboard I found on sale on Shopee.

Again, not much to talk about.

Though the gamer looking font and shape makes me want to vomit.

It looks like it have RBG though so it'll make a great night lamp.

3/10
Nuuskamuikkunen
If I showed you mine, I'd be sure that you'd score it 1/10 at best.

I have kept this office keyboard since 2012. Some of its keys are already sunk-bent. I also live in a dusty place to make it worse xp
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

KatouMegumi wrote:

Hey, tad. Hypothetically, how would you rate a Model M?
A classic.
Great build quality and key feel.
Looks big, chunky and elegant.

8/10 (Although different models of Model M would have different ratings.)

I've only had the chance to experience it for a few times though. Since it's quite a heavy board the shipping fees are ridiculous if I try to get one from America.
And the people that has one where I live keeps them like it's their family heirloom.
So yeah, sadly I can't own one. I can only get to experience them through meetups.
Akumace1

I live in a third world country
Winnyace


runner up for 1/10 keyboard
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

Akumace1 wrote:


I live in a third world country
Like I said before, I don't rank Laptop keyboards. Sorry.

Winnyace wrote:



runner up for 1/10 keyboard
Looks like another rubber dome office board to me.

Well, at least it looks clean.

3/10

Edit: Since so many people posted similar keyboards that have the same ratings, I've grouped all of them into one ranking.
Foxi
Now this is my kinda thread.

Unfortunately, I have like 7 mechs, so I'm not sure which one to post.
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

Foxi wrote:

Now this is my kinda thread.

Unfortunately, I have like 7 mechs, so I'm not sure which one to post.
If you want you can post all 7 and I'll rank all of them lol.
abraker
One of the best keyboards you can get
Penguin

My keyboard is very crusty because I eat noodles and shit at my desk. I really hate cleaning keyboards and nobody else uses mine, so I don't really care.

Switches are Cherry Reds. Sounds like every single other Cherry Red switches, so I'm not gonna post a video for that.

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

I like keyboards. Post your keyboards here and I will rank them from 1 to 10.
This is not in any way, shape or form sexual.
:^)
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

abraker wrote:

One of the best keyboards you can get
It's one of the best in production stock keyboard that you can buy right now, yes.

Look wise, even though I don't like floating key designs and gamer keyboards, it looks pretty clean ngl.

Build quality is again average for a modern mechanical keyboard with metal mounting plate and braided cables.

The most interesting thing about the whole board though are the switches. The switches on the alpha block on this board are hall effects switches, which means they're contactless switches and therefore super smooth.
I don't have this keyboard but I've tried it on keyboard meetups before and the key feel is one of the smoothest I've felt. And because the switches are hall effects, the life time could potentially reach billions of keystrokes before you wear out one switch. So durability wise, it's literally imortal, unless you deliberately want to break it.

Being hall effects switches also means that you could set the actuation point of the switch so, despite it being light like cherry MX reds, I don't get nearly as many typos on it as I do with MX red switches. So that's one of the board's best feature imo.

There's also a screen on this keyboard that could display game related stuffs or animations or sruffs that you draw on it which is a nice touch.

Now on to the downsides.
First of all, the price. It's pretty pricey. With the same price you could get several other keyboards.
And there isn't a wide variety of switch choices either.
You can only get linear switches on this board. Although admittedly, they're one of the best linears out there.

The 2nd downside is that only the keys on the alpha block are hall effect switches. The others are normal mechanical switches.
Though this is a bit disappointing but I guess it's understandable since it'll be ridiculously priced if the whole board were to use hall effects switches.
I'd rather have the board only have hall effects on the alpha keys and stay at a reasonable price than to add more to the already high price tag.

3rd downside is the keycaps.
You'd think for the price they'd give you decent keycaps, but no they're just keycaps coated in black paint and then lasered.
This makes for very sharp looking keycaps and it makes the back lighting shines through quite well, but these caps aren't very durable and can wear off relatively quick, turning into blobs of light depending on how often you uses it.

Overall, a pricey premium keyboard but it actually have interesting features to back up it's high price.

8/10
Topic Starter
Tad Fibonacci

Penguin wrote:


My keyboard is very crusty because I eat noodles and shit at my desk. I really hate cleaning keyboards and nobody else uses mine, so I don't really care.

Switches are Cherry Reds. Sounds like every single other Cherry Red switches, so I'm not gonna post a video for that.

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

I like keyboards. Post your keyboards here and I will rank them from 1 to 10.
This is not in any way, shape or form sexual.
:^)
Aesthetic wise, disregarding the crusty state of the board, it looks pretty clean and simple.
A bit plain but I like it. It doesn't try to be showy like most gamer keyboards out there.

Build quality again looks standard for modern mechanical keyboards. Decently tough.

The keycaps from what I read about it on their website said that it's double shot keycaps so it's very durable and the legends will never fade away.
One of the good thing about it is that it doesn't use a gamer cyber font nor the ugly stencil letters. It's just a normal font so it looks nice and clean.

Back lighting seems to be monochrome. But I think this is better than RGB. I don't like RGB or Back lighting as a whole anyways. And RGB lights can never produce a good "white" color so the white LED on this board is actually better than RGB in this case since the color perfectly fits the clean aesthetic of the board.

The weakest part of the board is probably the switches. I personally don't like the weighting of Cherry MX reds, but weighting is subjective.
However, cherry switches are all very scratchy and not that pleasant to use imo.
Even the cherry clones are much better than them. Gateron for example manufacture cheaper, yet much smoother switches than cherry does.

It's a shame that mainstream gaming keyboards usually stick with Cherry since that's what most people think is the best.
I think they're overpriced and overated switches.

Overall, a clean looking, functional mechanical keyboard.

6/10.
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