Don’t Buy a Keyboard Before Watching This.

AFFILIATES & REFERRALS
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0:00 Don't Waste your Money
0:37 Mistake 1
2:28 Mistake 2
5:04 Mistake 3
6:58 Mistake 4
8:48 Mistake 5
11:49 Mistake 6
13:15 Mistake 7

OTHER PLATFORMS
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[Messiahs]

Man your channel is just what I need. Mature, informative and as far as I can tell you are not trying to sell me anything but good info.

[MisterHorsey]

Taping over keys on a bigger keyboard to test if you could manage with a smaller keyboard (at 4:44) is genius!

[deann]

The mistakes:
1. Not accounting for shipping costs
2. Not considering the keyboard size you need
3. Buying keyboards with soldered switches instead of hot-swappable ones
4. Not setting a budget or limit on how many keyboards to buy
5. Not listing the features you actually need
6. Thinking you need a "gaming" keyboard when any keyboard will do
7. Ignoring software compatibility, modularity, and customer support

[coolrobis]

This guide is gonna help us all a lot! Thank you.

[KeyboardSavant]

I built my first custom back in 2013, and since then, I've learned some difficult lessons. But I'll say this, I certainly don't have any regrets. Building and modifying keyboards is therapeutic for me, and I would never have guessed that an obscure hobby could produce such a feeling.

[SomberP]

Shipping really makes the hobby difficult

My dream board has been wood with ceramic keycaps.
Wood board from kbdfans…$25 shipping
Ceramic set from Cerakeys…another $25
I ordered switches from ashkeebs….$15 shipping
Keycaps will probably be another $10-20 shipping

Basically $100 in shipping alone…

[MarbsMusic]

The struggle with mistake #4 is real... then just when you think you have it contained you get into GMK, Osume and or other keycaps for the boards you already have.. then you start trying different switches in those boards to get a different feel or sound... lol. Great video and I love the colorway on the Neo80, my QK75n has a very similar look.

[StillthatguyJake]

This is very thoughtful! I appreciate the approach you took and I hope this saves a lot of people from the impulse buys or getting boards that are all hype. That blue painters tape idea (taping off extra keys) was actually quite brilliant!

[Belgarathe]

Love it. Practical advice that I wish I had listened to as I stare at my shelf of keyboards. The key thing to remember is that there isn’t 1 perfect keyboard. Start slow and decide if you want to build it or have it prebuilt.

[eduardomedina]

I'm currently sitting at #6... breaking my head over a 10ms response to a 1ms response when my main use for a keyboard is productivity. All the while knowing I'm a support player and know the response time is not as important as keeping the team alive.

[lm]

my 1st and mainly issue is my language layout is no existent outside extremely mainstream brands :/ so most % of the custom ones are out and there's only

[im_ibr]

can you help us out with finding some thocky stock keebs with nordic iso layout? glad to have you back btw!

[voongnz]

My mechanical keeb collection rn is at 2 and i am DONE!!! Same as my touch typing progression done at 70 wpm. It may naturally increase but no longer actively trying to get faster. Still will watch these channels tho.

[adaninurs]

I'm new to all this mechanical keyboard world, and I literally ALMOST buy 65%!! I immediately drop it from my cart xD I need the function row!!!

[fjung]

great video! I initally bought 2x very cheap kbs off Temu and was ready to write off custom keyboards. Finally took the plunge and got a Bridge75 following a very similiar process. The quest is now done, l love it and it will be my daily driver. I 'm sure this vid is going to help alot of people getting into the keyboards, great content :) One thing to mention tho is ansi vs iso, I'm happy to adapt being UK based, you can access much more variety of the wonderful world of keycaps going ansi :)

[arcanejee]

I just recently revisited this hobby (after stopping at 3 keebs last year) and mistake 4 speaks to me so much right now. I am currently at 8 keebs (+ 2 on the way, possibly 2 more on top of that LOL) but so far there's only been ONE keeb that I didn't like (Yunzii B75 Pro). I needed the reminder of not needing to buy every single viral keeb just to be "happy." Haha! Thank you <3 Much love from the Philippines

[blackie]

another thing to consider with the smaller layouts is if you're putting new switches in you won't have to buy as many

[doyerverk]

thanks, I was getting a new keyboard off the official website but the shipping was 25 dollars. used your tip and solved the issue! keep it up.

[bchan]

I'm really going down this rabbit hole now. I started off with lofree for thock, then I got rainy 75 for clack, now I'm changing keycaps, switches and getting another keyboard, and I'm so happy :-)

[camogeko]

This is a beautiful video, thank you so much for making it!