In fact, after trying more than 50 keyboards, the 75%-layout Q1 was the one we kept returning to - it was simply the most pleasant to use in every respect. Keychron’s Q-series keyboards are so comfortable and quiet to type on, so easy to configure to taste and so solidly built that unless you’re an enthusiast who is after something specific from a custom build, we really don’t see any reason to spend more on a mechanical keyboard. We found a whole bunch of great models, so regardless of your typing style, we’ve picked out the best mechanical keyboard for you.Ī note: Manufacturers offer keyboards in a wide variety of layouts (which we’ll get into below), but where multiple layouts were available we focused on 75% keyboards - the layout you’re familiar with from laptop computers.

We spent the last year of workdays typing, navigating and otherwise putting 50 (yes, it’s too many, we know) popular and not-so-popular mechanical keyboards through their paces (we also wrote this very article using the relevant products under review). Mechanical keyboards - in which every key uses an individual physical switch to send information to your computer, rather than activating a contact on a membrane as in a modern laptop keyboard - have been growing in popularity as gamers, developers, writers and a growing number of enthusiasts have pushed back on the thinner-is-better aesthetic of modern computer design, looking to the past for a typing experience that’s bigger, louder and easier on the fingers.

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