| I've had a couple over the past decade or so. If you look past the old IBM PS/2 keyboards, in recent history i've owned: - Das Keyboard 4 Professional (https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-professional/), which was a nice "starter keyboard". I've heard quality has gone downhill since, but mine performed well. I eventually came to dislike the form factor of it because it was causing my wrists to hurt after prolonged use. - Ducky One 2 (https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/One-2-Phantom-Black), this one came highly recommended. I purchased one with MX Brown switches for use at work. It took about 3 days for my colleagues to complain about the noise. It is very comfortable to use, but God it's loud. It now lives at my work-from-home desk. - Logitech G613 (https://www.logitechg.com/en-au/products/gaming-keyboards/g6...), this one has Romer switches, and is actually quite nice to use. Not too loud and nice tactile feedback. It's rather large, and with COVID and work from home, i needed more "desk space", so it's sitting in my closet at the moment. - Keychron K8 (https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-tenkeyless-wir...), this is probably the best mechanical keyboard i have. It's still rather new, and by using it i think i can feel that i'm going to have a problem with keys binding at some point, it has that little resistant "pop up", but for now it's great. As for typing speed, the Ducky or Keychron are the fastest with the least errors. That is of course a very personal measurement, and your typing speed might be better or worse with different keyboards. Do they boost my productivity ? Depends how you define it. I make fewer typos on my mechanical keyboards, and experience less "inger fatigue", but i probably wouldn't chalk it up to a significant percentage when it comes to productivity. It's more of a personal preference. |