Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
Standard size on the bottom row caps (Ctrl, Win, Alt and FN/Menu) is 1x1.25 and for the Spacebar it is 1x6.25.
If your k-board don't have that , you can't use the sets bottom row caps + the Spacebar. I have the Tai - Hao 104 keys Miami set (I also have the ANSI/ISO/UK* Suneshine set but I have never use it yet), on my ANSI Ducky One RGB YOTG with Cherry MX Blacks (Ducky Shine 2, 3, 4, 5 RGB and Ducky One has a standard bottom row size) the only problem I have with those 2 sets is that my k-boards are 108 keys.
* = Here in Sweden we have the ISO/Nordic layout and it is a hell to find good lookin ISO/Nordic keycaps sets, you can use the ISO/UK layout keycaps sets on a ISO/Nordic k-board but you don't have those 3 strange letters: Ö, Å and Ä we have here in Sweden in the ISO/UK keycaps sets, that's why I bought my first ANSI k-board some years ago and no more problem to find good lookin keycaps sets.
Right now I have 6 ANSI k-boards in all.