The lecturer in me, cannot let this go.
Pudding keycaps, when the top quarter to third of the keycap is a colour, while the bottom part is a different colour (but usually white, and backlit), giving it that partial glow right through the base of the keycap. Called pudding, cos it looks like one of those shop custard puddings with the brown (chocolate) on top.
Cherry MX Silent Reds, a switch type. It’s a linear smooth lower force actuation, and has muted sound. Game with this at night, while the wife sleeps.
Cherry MX Blues, the loud clicky tactile switch, that reminds most people of old IBM keyboards. Tactile, means there’s a bump somewhere around the middle of the actuation, that you can feel through your fingers. Clicky, is just the fucking loud click of the actual button mechanism. Use this to piss of neighbours, 3 doors down.
Cherry MX Reds: again, same as Silent Reds, but just louder. Often called the gamer switch. It’s highly responsive actuation, and smooth linear feel, is ideal for gaming. While it’s not “silent”, it is not overly loud, and in a busy office, can easily fade into background noise.
The Ducky One 3 is also their new line of models, where you can swap the switches too, unlike the Ducky One 2 range, which are fixed switches. Obviously, keycaps are always removable.
And lastly, the thocc: what keyboard hobbyists call the mystical perfect solid bass’y thunk sound when you type on the keyboard. Ducky has done a great job, and the sound while the switch is sliding down, is also a satisfying shuck, as well as the bottoming out sound. Most keyboards resonate hollow, plastic or sometimes even metal sounds, because they don’t have enough internal padding and structural integrity, both for your fingers banging on the keys, and also for sound dampening. Both desk and desk cover affect the sound. The blue keyboard’s thocc, is good, in the grand scheme of things, but hey, it’s amazing for me, since none of the others sound d that good.
