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Aah..the costly hobby of typing on a mechanical keyboard

 Lockdown happened swift and quick in India. Come forth April I am surfing through the internet and subreddits. I found one particular subreddit named mechanical keyboards. Until then I was happy with my two membrane keyboards, I could game, I could type at a blistering pace (so I thought) everything was normal.


But then this clicky heavenly beauty strikes my mind. I could not take it out of my mind. The sweet sweet sound of the key being pressed on a clicky switch, the smoothness of the linear and my personal favourite of the tactility.


After many research and study, I decided to buy a mechanical keyboard. But by then the whole world was changed. I learnt that no decent mechanical keyboards are cheap and to get a hold on one of them in India is not an easy feat.


After researching a lot, importing one was not an option. The import duty exceeds even 100% some times. 

 

Meckeys was a super cool site to buy mechanical keyboards in India. Thanks to them (but not fully satisfied since they mainly have ducky keyboards), I got hold of my first ever mechanical keyboard in July.

Ducky sf 2 pure white edition is my new love. I love typing, code on it, game on it.

Even this blog post is to boast about my new mechanical keyboard. I am writing this blog post on my new ducky sf 2.


The feel has changed drastically. My typing speed as well. Before I thought I could never live without the full keys on a full keyboard. But right now I am typing this on a 65% board. I could move around my hands, free with no problem. 


So basically with a 65% mechanical keyboard, I increased my productivity a lot, I made my typing and coding heavenly and jumped up on a new hobby (even though it's going to wreck me financially). On the wrong side, boy I am going to spend a lot of money on the upcoming tfue keycaps.

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