10 Tips for Buying Your First Mechanical Keyboard | A Beginners Guide

Here are 10 tips on how to choose and buy your first mechanical keyboard, everything you need to consider going into your first purchase.

Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Tip 1 (Size): 00:24
Tip 2 (Buy or Build): 01:07
Tip 3 (Base Color): 02:08
Tip 4 (Backlighting & RGB): 03:03
Tip 5 (Switches): 03:45
Tip 6 (Keycaps): 04:48
Tip 7 (Connectivity): 06:30
Tip 8 (Cables): 07:27
Tip 9 (Hot-swappable): 08:57
Tip 10 (Budget): 10:38
Keyboard Suggestions: 13:11

[KaganTech]

What keyboard are you hoping to buy/did you buy as your first mechanical keyboard?

[beansbev_]

I have been researching all day to figure out probably 15% of what you explained in this video - thank you! This was incredibly helpful and is going to inform my choice a lot.

[bmbd]

for anybody on a small budget, buy a Keychrone V1-5 and mod it with tape, switch pads and ktt/akko and lubed them. my best advice for y'all

[daviddeclan]

Yea, I've been looking at getting the Keychron k2 or k3, my first mechanical keyboard. Thanks for the tips Kagan

[FPty]

I currently have a gk61x build but im going to build kbd67 r3 with alpacas and maybe gmk hennessey or gmk godspeed columbia keycaps

[MedoUnboxing]

I will prefer to buy since there's no time