If it's just coated then I think it'll come off in a few months after use.

I really starting to feel that LEDs are nothing but a stupid gimmick

DS3 has better LED controls I think. Check out youtube reviews to see the patterns that you can get. IKBC I'm not really sure.

AS for the keycaps, I believe that they use transparent POM/ABS that has a sprayed on layer with laser-etched legends. THEY WILL GO SHINY IN 2-3 MONTHS TOPS. It's not even dirty habits; just sweat from fingers and things like that. Trust me, you'll be thinking of changing keycaps really soon.

I'm more of a one button one function guy. I can get used to living without my numpad, but I will never press more than one button to get to F2 (edit cell in Excel). I guess I don't type as much as I should.

I wonder if anyone ever made Topre custom before...

Sounds exactly like my itik kosong bersinar.

Semi-off-topic; I'm still considering your vintage black as long as it has white LEDs. Gonna have to get me some LED changers soon.

Like 016 said, it's more ergonomic for fingers to press only one button for a commonly used function (like F2, cuz 99% of my excel godliness comes from spotting idiot errors and changing formula). Since I use excel a lot, I also need my numbers. Typing in functions more than actual numbers is the reason why I can live without the numpad (I have monkeys clerks for that).

Compression of the 6-key cluster above the arrows (Del-Home-End-PgUp-PgDn) are used a lot for quick navigation between worksheets. Example; Ctrl+PgUp to change tabs, and then Ctrl+Home to got to cell A1 in a pinch. Or even F2 then Ctrl+Home to get to first character in formula.

That only explains a minute part of how I work.

Not to bash on anyone's keyboard preference, but the smallest I would go is 75% because I need my function keys separate (actually, come to think of it I only use F2 and F4 mostly) but most important of all is the Ins-PgDn cluster for navigation.

Bwahahaha. Because of people like you, I still have a job. Should be thanking you for your excel "skillz".

I'm so stealing spreadshit. No hard feelings at all.

Easy:

Anybody can use excel. But nobody uses excel like an accountant with some coding background and common sense.

If you use Excel everyday, chances are you are the "clerk-like" type who uses it like some gigantic notepad.

If you only use Excel once a month, either you don't work in finance, or you are just developer who finish project then dump it on users.

Either way, nobody knows bow to combine vlookup, sumif and pivots at the same time to come up with a robust report that can analyze 60,000 lines of data into an easy to understand and workable sheet. Even if they know that much, they'll pengsan when they see multiple nested if statements. When they look over my shoulder when I do stuff, all they see is my fingers flying around hitting shortcut buttons and copy-pasta formula. Pengsan again.

Combine all of this, you have 2 types of excel users:

1. Office worker.

2. Dev people.

Either way, they can't connect because #1 dun have the logic of #2, and #2 never understand the actual requirements of #1. I can do both (to an extent of course).

It's at this spot that I insert myself. It's a niche I carefully cultivated over my entire career, and this job can never be replaced by a robot.

Hope I dun sound too lansi, but I'm proud of my work

Nice. I still do automation, but at most is VB inside excel only. Can't afford to delve into programming. Got other hobbies

Main problem would be the reliability. I heard (can't remember where) that the switches koyak after a few months.

YMMV

Is gaming board!

LEDs!!

MECHANICAL LIKE YOUR FAVOURITE DOTARD/HONTRASH/LOLFAG PLAYA!

EH... the itik kosong can remap or not?

Cheh. i thought is hardware. NVM I also got.

21st century secretary

Time to change jobs.

I just woke up

I was taking off pants while watching this...

impossible for me to get used to custom :|

TKL is smallest I can take

Addendum: impossible for my wallet to get used to the light feeling. Better?

99% of custom shown here is 60%

If I ever go custom I'll get ergodox

Ergodox Case + PCB + electronics ~ 600 bucks

Doubleshot keycaps ~ 200+

Switches ~ 100

Total ~ 1,000

Investment = one shot use soldering iron + solder ~120

TOTAL COST EXCEED 1K, TQVM

No. If I ever go custom, I will save money until can afford ergodox. No compromise.