Just buy the one that makes the most noise. The noise will scare away the bugs in your code

Feel like the best keyboard is what you prefer.

Add a 00:00 timestamp in the description so KZfaq will automatically display them on the timeline

5:00 that’s got to be the longest password I’ve ever seen. Good security man 👍😎

For most newcomers I recommend TKL (tenkeyless) aka "80%" keyboards. Average PC user is stepping down from a 104-key. This drops the numpad but keeps navigation cluster...still a very popular feature to most people, but one they realize they do use (enough to miss it) once gone. Also, if you want to use mouse less, you have an even greater need for nav-cluster, imo. Not all mechanical KBs are tactile. Only those with tactile switches, browns being most popular of this type, offer the bump at point of actuation. Blue switches are known as the most popular of the "clicky" category and then there are "Linear" switches, Red the most commonly offered. Also, there are amazing options outside to Cherry MX switches. This is the key purpose in the world of mechanical KBs: options. Every component can be modded or switched out to suit your needs. The only limits lie in your mechanical KB knowledge and learned skills. I'm sure most programmers can appreciate this.

Bought a Logitech MX Keys yesterday, haven't bought a keyboard in 15 years, kind of blown away!

Many IDEs use the function keys for debugging shortcuts. I would find a 65 percent keyboard unusable. I recommend a 75 percent keyboard for programmers.

I got a Keyboard, similar to the Mission Serious Gaming Keyboard, and it still holds up to today. It is around 5 years old now, and has no broken key...

a very ali abdaal way of starting a video, nice....

Nice video as usual! To add a point at 9:28, it is said that mechanical keyboards tends to add less tension to the carpal tunnel since you generally do not fully press the key down. You release it after it registers the keystroke. As for the preference, personally no matter which keyboard I use, the homemade metal keycap that I made on my channel is always coming with me :)

“You don’t really need the numbpad” Cry in data science

Hey Kalle I have an idea for a video that might be cool but it would be awesome if you could program a Arduino and also tell us how much of a struggle it is and if it’s worth it

i got this channel in my recommendeations around six in the evening,, it is 2225 hrs in my country at the moment and i just finished watching my eighth video of this channel,,definitely love this guy Kalle and i am going to binge watch this channel tomorrow,,peace

I really appreciate that you've added the info about your keyboard at the start of the video!

Interesting. I actually own a data center and I don't know anyone that doesn't use tactile or clicky keys. _Gaming that's a different rabbit hole._ Personally, I think it's nuts when people are complaining about the keyboard sounds on KZfaq. Literally IMO stupidity. Never heard one person complain about somebody's clicky keyboard sounds at the office and I employ over a hundred people. My wife has a relatively inexpensive Corsair aluminum full size keyboard with Cherry MX Blues and types over 200 WPM, I digress to her example. If you're switching between Apple and Windows, then 100% I would recommend Keycron; it comes with keycaps for Windows and Apple. I also would recommend either a full size keyboard or an 1800 .. maybe a TKL. I'm dealing with numbers often, got to have a numpad. Also 60% or 65% keyboards are utterly useless even for gamers. Today, I would probably recommend the Keycron Q5 ETA 2 weeks with either real Cherry MX Blues or Browns. If you want to go down some rabbit hole of switches, go for it.

I never thought I would actually search for someone on youtube just to subscribe to them but what can we do here you are after searching for you from past 3 hrs 🤣

I’m using the Keychron K4 with gateron brown switches 😁 I love it! I’ve been using it for a week now and it’s my favorite keyboard I’ve had yet! I was using a razer cynosa chroma before, and there’s just something that feels good with a mechanical keyboard compared to a rubber membrane keyboard.

I'm a software developer and I actually use the function keys quite often when debugging in visual studio and working in the dev console. Just my 2 cents!

This dude is always so chill

You should try building a keyboard. I built one with novelkey creams and cannot go back

Also take into account that with bluetooth keyboard you can't go into BIOS/UEFI settings because it starts to work only when operating system loads

Nice video as always Kalle! Keep up the good work! Left aligning the text for the timestamps in the video would look cleaner imo :)

This is exactly what I'm looking for right now 😁

The intro will never get old

MX KEYS & MX MASTER

Well as many on the internet has said that don't buy 61 keys keyboard for programming due to the lack of dedicated arrow keys but as a fellow programmer and a keyboard enthusiast I still bought my fist 60% keyboard by selling my previous full sized mechanical keyboard and yeah it took around 2 month to get used to the lack of arrows but now its just a second nature to me I have been using it for like a year and I have never really felt the lack of he dedicated arrow keys and the home cluster to be honest so if you are thinking of experimenting and trying out as a programmer but not sure you can use 60%/61 keys keyboard as some of my other coder friends use 60% keyboards too.

One thing you should definitely try sometime is an ortholinear. I am in the process of manufacturing one for myself because keebs are expensive af. I would really appreciate your views on it.

I actually wanted this video because I was stuck from choosing mechanical or thin keyboards.

I would say a software developer is going to have a huge problem giving up the tilda key ~ on 60/65% keyboards. We use it constantly when in the terminal.

I really love the way you speak ❤️. i.e; Slowly and clearly

I'm so early Kalle hasn't started giving away hearts

Hi Kalle! Could you please make a video where you would explain how to build a programming PC? If you decide to make this video, could you please try to answer questions like: • What components are the most important for this type of PC? • What to aim for when building programming PC? • Does the build change if you are in different programming filed? • How to choose a programming monitor? • How many monitors is ideal for programming? • How to choose a chair? • ... Thanks in advance if you decide to make this video! There isn’t a lot of good videos on how to make a programming setup, so I think a lot of people will like this video!

Lenovo Thinkpad series, easily best in laptop keyboards.

Hey kalle , I really appreciate your work . I am a novice programmer and i am going to take admission in bachelor computer science . What i want to ask you is that "Is physics mandatory for programming cause i am a dunce in physics "

I love his intro

I’m used to US layout and tilde being to the left of “1” key. On a 65%, my biggest complaint is that tilde need to be moved to make space for escape.

great to see that you are keeping to the touch typing

Good transition to Grammarly, I giggled out loud. Great info too. Thank you.

People say that browns are like dirty reds and the tactility is not enough, I went for blues, heard good things regarding this kind of switch for typists. And if people get bothered by keyboard sounds I can't help them, if it improves my productivity and speed. It is kinda selfish, but most people wear headphones all the time already, I don't think this is a big deal.

YOU get a hugeee like for not forcing viewers to stick to the end. and because of that, I will watch the whole thing. Least I can do

had a ton of keyboards by now. currently ducky miya pro with cherry mx silent reds. typing-wise it's the nicest i had so far. i like the looks. the silent switches are good for not bothering other people at night if you don't live alone. but the huge downside that nags me: not a 100% keyboard. so the same as the ducky one in the video. it really really is annoying to have to press the function key to use the f-keys or to take a screenshot or something else. honestly you don't need a super special keyboard for programming, i had those because of gaming. but if you don't actually want that i would definitely look for a 80-100% because you really need those keys oftenly like for debugging or taking a screen or doing some shortcuts or whatever. just my personal 2 cents. (while a good keyboard is fun tho of course. typing just feels a lot better. but not nessercary). if my current keyboard breaks i'll probably get something similar just 80-100%. they are very rare with german key-layout but they exist. varmillo has just launched similar ones i think. but they are really really really pricey D:

With Autohotkey, Karabiner or TouchCursor you can easily put arrow keys right under the ESDF or IJKL cluster where they belong. Right under your home row fingertips, and use the SpaceFN spacebar as a function key idea. It's brilliant. I'll never use a dedicated arrow cluster again. I'm even thinking about moving to a 40% keyboard now that I have figured out how to move keys to me instead of moving to the keys.

I loved your videos many thanks keep going

I have used a few different keyboards but I love my Techware Phantom, after lubing the switches its buttery smooth and quiet.

How do you manage without Home End buttons

Keychron K8 or any mechanical keyboard with 75% layout is the perfect fit . And dont forget choose Red Switch or Brown Switch, from Gateron or Cherry MX .

desktop keyboard vs [ laptop key board] which one feels better?

as a user of vim I use a split 40% keyboard

Watch 2 clips of ads just to see a sponsored video? Thanks man.

Nice idea for a video Kalle

The struggle with our Norwegian/Swedish/Danish/other languages keyboard is having to use CTRL to use utilize curly brackets and apostrohes, etc,as our native characters take up a key each. 😛

Oh no, Kalle's soothing personality is too powerful. I came here to learn about coding culture, not to fall in love.

Best Guy! Interesting videos!

about Ducky One 2 SF How you have iso layout? I'm comfortable with iso europe layout and not ANSI But in website, i can't see any info about that.

!DISCLAIMER! This video wont get you through your college class !!

Nailed that transition 😂😁

Jump into custom mechanical keyboards and you will notice how bad those in store keyboards are. About programming, I like when I am focused on the code and not on typing itself. By that I mean switches not being loud, good touch typing and feel. Razer and keyboards like those doesn't belong in those categories. Also, mechanical keyboards doesn't mean it is loud. That depends on switches themself. For example, I am using silent tacticle switches (Zilent v2). Also the size (layout) of the keyboard is also important. For coding you don't want to move your hands too much. I personally like 65% cause I don't have to move hands too much and coding by itself becomes easier. And finally, searching for a perfect keyboard for yourslef is much much more diffucult than anyone could imagine.

The best keyboard is what you like, there is no best keyboard for something. Try to make your own custom keyboard or a hot swap keyboard and lube the switches and stabs, it's a big difference

I got 6 macro Keys on my keyboard with two different profilers. One for gaming and one for programming. For example i can create a full class with one button. So that why i like mine

9:45 noise is not the difference between the two. Mechanial can be loud or quite, depending on the switch, while membrane keyboards have totally different mechanism and its just rubber and button. Mechanicals are way better in any case, but they are a bit more costly, but if you can, go with it.

I agree with the person that recommended to build your own board. These days you don’t even have to solder you have hotswap keyboards were you can simply klik the switches in to the sockets go with khail sockets btw. And if a keyboard doesn’t have qmk or via skip it otherwise just by a pre made board from Leopold. Btw I switched all my boards to 65% that’s a 60% with arrow cluster and all my boards are programmable don’t worry it’s not like coding not difficult at all there all tools and web clients that help just google it. My keyboards are all 100% mac,Windows and Linux compatible everything works volume control brightness I can make any key do what I want and have multiple levels where keys do different things and the software is OpenSource so you don’t need to be concerned with it going away

Favorite switch: cherry mx brown Keeb community: HERESY!! GET HIM!!!

I noticed something in my experience I used to write code in a keyboard which I didn’t like a lot but when i tried a new one I wrote a lot faster so yeah keyboards do help

wtf as a coder you absolutely should use arrow keys. arrows and end/home are imperative

This guy is one of my favourite KZfaqr

Thanks! now I don't feel guilty buying my apple magic keyboard. This video made me do a typing test afterwards lol

imagine saying that mx browns are really tactile lol. Either that way good content

Hi Kalle, the indoor parts in your videos looks a bit flat, maybe try color grading a bit more to make the colors pop. Otherwise the content's enjoyable and informative.

If feel you need dedicated arrow keys ...there are two solutions 1. Use vim 2. Change caps locks key to fn

It might help you to get an error-free code in any sound of keys but you should go for the one that only has little sound.

Intro music is the best ❤️❤️❤️

Spacebar with the index finger, interesting?!

If i use a straight keyboard my 🖐 🤚 will hurt over time. I’ve used ergonomic keyboard for 5 years now and it’s been the best decision. Have you tried ergonomic??

The Keychron you linked is not the one in the video. You got a 7 shaped Return key in the video. That's what I am looking for. Mechanical TKL with 7 shaped Keyboard and dedicatet Function keys... can't find it...

Can you make a video about how to find unique projects ideas?

Jesus how does as software engineer someone work on a keyboard without the num pad lmao

I have keychorn k2

Hitting space with the index finger!!!! 4:58

Rocking lofree season with blue switches

+1 for the Timestamps, I didn't use it but still +1.

Can you make a video on freelancing? Still a junior here! But i'm seriously considering it

The one thing I don't understand is why the ducky 1 2 sf you are using looks slightly different then the ones being sold on the ducky one 2 site and on amazon. The difference is that the enter key is bigger for you, whereas the ones being sold have a smaller enter key. Why is this? Did they come out with a different version that has the smaller enter key?

Nice video! But how do you take screenshots with the ducky one?

You can get a tkl keyboard if you don’t have much space an if you want the arrow keys or maybe you can get a 65% keyboard

You should try a US/ANSI keyboard layout, way better for programming. {} [] ; etc are way easier to type, on mac you can still get scandinavian keys (øæå) from option+(A/O/ ' ).

Hi. You did not cover the most important aspect. I would recommend using an US keyboard layout, as most programming languages are designed on those keyboards. On other layouts, characters like $, slashes, ~, brackets, etc. are accessed via Shift or even Alt key. So more key presses required. On my italian keyboard I always have to press Alt+1 2 6 for typing the ~ character. Cheers

Just bought the HyperX Alloy FPS Pro with Cherry MD Reds and coming from a cheapo membrane keyboard, it was pretty unimpressive to me in terms of typing experience. The standard profile makes mistype easier for me along with the easy actuation force. Perhaps MX Keys would have been better. Only if Logitech releases a TKL/65% version of the keyboard, that would be PERFECT

Question for other people who code and type a lot. Do any of you not like to move your keyboard? Whenever I move it it always throws me off, I ended up just putting tape on my table to mark where it goes, and if someone moves it I freak out, also btw my feet don’t touch the ground so I thin, that it the problem. Thx in advance

I use Logitech G213 Prodigy keyboard, a really good one-) Thanks for the video haha

Do you know what you have done by posting this video? . . . . . . You solved my problem bro! 😂😂 Keep Uploading these cool stuff! And sorry for that!👍🏻♥️

The full size keyboards rock

Try using US International for programming if you aren't already :)

I've had the corsair k70 with browns. The keyboard is kinda loud and my mic pics up it quite well... But with closed headphones it's really good.

which keyboard should be preferred by a programmer?

Is 60% keyboard enough for COADING??

Nice, just foud this video literally one day after buying a new keyboard

If there are cherry mx brown keyswitches, you know its probably a good keyboard. I also have cherry mx red, they are ok, but they dont give me the same feedback and hands feels a little bit more tired after a while i think.

Why did you not have any logitech keyboards they are really good

I have the Rapoo keyboard and was like 50€ in France but it’s still working like on the first day. I have to say that the keys are a bit too slippery for my liking

No ten keyless keyboards (not the same as 65%)? When I code, I use home and end a lot to go to the beginning of a line and end of line.