Nice keyboard! I am from team 65% :)
Getting my Keychron V5 soon so hopefully joining this club! What mods would you suggest for it? I’m getting Brown switches with it.
I’m using browns, but might get a few reds for my space, return, shifts, etc.
That might be a good idea. I could look into something like that.
I have a 100% but close enough right!
96% is the best layout. All the convenience of not having a bunch of dead space between your arrows and nav cluster, with all of the convenience of having a numpad with all the nav keys your heart can want. Yes I want Home and End right there on the first layer, I’d have to go mad not to.
You only need to choose one key to sacrifice, and I happily tucked Insert one layer under Delete. Print Screen is non-negotiable.
I’m always so surprised to see how unpopular 96% is.
That looks nice, wasnt even aware of such 96%s. Numpad for life
Accountant checking in, numpad is indeed a necessity.
I can’t live without a numpad.
Why not? What do you do that inputting numbers is so important?
I personally work in finance. It’s essential, especially for calculations.
Similar here. I do a lot of budget management and data entry as part of my job, not having a numpad is a hell of an inconvenience.
I, too, am a member. All hail efficiency.
Rise up!!!
60% forever!
Since a couple of days! Is that the Keychron K4? If so then I have the same!
Although my keycaps aren’t as nice…
Are these new-ish? I was into it a good few years back and since getting my two full size boards I haven’t really looked back.
This layout seems really interesting, I don’t want to sacrifice the practical side of full size layout but this saves a bunch of space whitout removing anything, looks great.
Nah, they’ve been around a while. I got a zz96 from a GeekHack group buy in 2017 I think.
I’m 65 here, but that looks tempting. I think I’m gonna go 75, I feel like it’s the sweet spot.
Hells yeah! Although my 96% is a bit roomier than yours. I’m rocking the AJAZZ AK966; pretty much stock, other than the switches. I replaced the stock Kailh Creams with Akko Yellow Sponges (Spongebobs). For a prebuilt, it feels amazing.
My other one is a DasKeyboard Professional with custom keycaps, but quite honestly, I find the AJAZZ to be more impressive. I’m shocked Das Keyboard uses costar stabs. There’s cheating out, and then there’s cheaping out. You’d think for $300US they’d splurge on half-decent stabs!
Mine looks a lot like this (stock keycaps): https://i.redd.it/rfyg5s106bf91.jpg
Yeah, happy these have taken off more recently because they’re a good setup. Nice compromise between the space of TKL and keeping the nunbpad of full sized keyboards.
I’ve still got my logitech orion spark. Thing is amazing!
YMDK Melody 96 over here. Absolutely my favorite layout I’ve ever used.
YMDK truly does the 96% right. I have two of them that are my daily drivers. One for business and one for gaming. Both are basically endgame grails for me.
