Q3 HE QMK Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard

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Wooting and Keychron are the only ones I would bother with. Wooting because Wooting, and Keychron because they're QMK.
The Huntsman that he's comparing it with has a bunch of gaming features that the Keychron electromechanical boards do not support, which is why I listed one of the magnetic boards. Also... The Q7 has a very flexi gasket mount and they have a history of working the sockets loose and causing problems after a few months and their support ranges from very poor to abusive. I would not get any Keychron Q or V series keyboards except for the except for the very basic tray mount ones. has
Some of the basic Q boards are tray mount. You might have one of those.
I have a Q3 HE, and it work pretty well. Web driver is user friendly and build quality is great. Typing experience is great in terms of sound and feel. For performance, it’s 1k pulling, I can’t notice a difference between 1K and 8K pulling some brands are offering, if you care about the pulling rate, consider the Q3 HE 8K released recently, but it don’t have the wireless connectivity the Q3 HE have. Overall it’s a great keyboard
Checkout Q /Q HE series from Keychron instead of K series, if you want superior build quality and typing experience. Just skip the mx mechanical if you use it for gaming as it’s pulling rate is way too low for gaming
I've had a Q3 HE from Keychron for about a year and wish I went with a Wooting lol
+1 Keychron is worth the price. I use Keychron Q3, much better than those overpriced "gaming" keyboards.
Check out Keychron Q3, this is the one I selected after browsing Reddit for 3 days and I'm infinitely happy with purchase.
I got a barebone Keychron Q3 with Boba U4 switches and heavy PBT keycaps - it is very silent and you can allways add O-rings against bottom out sounds. I used SORBOTHANE to dampen the keyboard. => this is as silent as it gets My current Keychron Q3 HE with magnetic switches is a bit noisier, but with Rapid Trigger, there is just less bottoming out happening during gaming. If you want to spend so much on a keyboard, I would recommend at least a magnetic variant. While I cant say anything about the impact of Rapid Trigger in FPS games, in MMOs it does eliminate finger strain / fatigue for me and I will not go back to normal keyboards for the time beeing.
Hi, I'm just looking for additional opinions on keyboards to check out. My prior keyboard was a WASD Code V3 (I think?) and I loved it until it broke, would have bought another if they were out of business. Over the last 6 months i've been struggling with a Keychron Q3 Max but the board had a huge QC issue and am getting a refund, not sure I want to roll the dice with them again. My priorities: I don't care about hotswapping, just want something to work well out of the box, prefer tactile switches similar to the Browns I've been using, and prefer a TKL/80% layout. Any advice?
The first thing you'll probably want to decide on is if you need ISO-UK layout (with the big enter key), or the ANSI American layout. If you are fine with an ANSI layout, you definitely have more options. As for gaming, that really depends. If you are really into competitive PvP games, than you might be more interested in something with HE switches. These are magnetic switches instead of mechanical. Personally, I prefer regular mechanical switches. But HE switches are definitely more gaming focused. If you are fine with mechanical switches you might want to check out something like the Evo80. You can get in either ANSI or ISO layout and is generally a really well regarded keyboard. Mechmods has both layout options for sale ([ANSI](https://www.mechmods.co.uk/collections/keyboards/products/evoworks-evo80-keyboard-ansi-layout?variant=46286231699679) and [ISO](https://www.mechmods.co.uk/collections/keyboards/products/evoworks-evo80-keyboard-iso-layout?variant=54937039307130)). I also believe it works both wireless and wired. There are other options out there though, so it really depends on what you are looking for. Like if you really want RGB options, you might want to look at a Nuphy Gem80. But that only has ANSI layouts and I think they are currently sold out of there usually included switches and keycaps. Keychron is also generally well regarded. For the TKL layout there is the Q3 Max. But they have a few different options, including HE keyboards. So you might want to browse their options.
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