Blank / Otaku keyboards

[czarek]

Hey guys who of you is using blank keyboard and why (apart from showing off)?
I used blank keyboard (Filco Tenkeyless with brown cherries) to force myself to learn proper touch typing at first. Now I don't really care if there are labels or not on a keyboard. I was using various Model Ms with and without labels for almost a year and now I'm using blank Unicomp and labeled G80 with MX Blue, I use the Cherry one rather rarely as it's in the office and I do most of my work from home.

[bender1077]

I got a Leopold 104 key blank keyboard with mx browns because it was $10 cheaper and I already was a touch typer!  

And it looks cool...

[Human]

To learn new layout perhaps? I being wanted to learn COLEMAK for a long time but the QWERTY on KB is killing me from learning COLEMAK...
I think i need to say good bye to QWERTY fonts first b4 I can learn COLEMAK proper and effectively.

[IvanIvanovich]

I got blank for looks initially and use them on my primary keyboard. They have helped somewhat for my typing as I never realized how much I looked at my hands / keyboard before. I also find it less of a distraction when switching languages and has been great for helping me learn touch typing for Russian, though I still have one keyboard with Russian printed keys which I can glance at if I get stuck on where a character is located.

[fireball87]

The main portion of my keyboard is blank.  This was done for two reasons, first so I could switch layouts and not have the wrong layout on my board, and second and most importantly, letter labels would get in the way of the artwork I had lasered in.

[ktkr]

Blank or not, it's basically all the same for me. When I got my first board, Das III Ultimate, the blank look was cool but not so much anymore. I like my printed/blank boards all in their own ways.

No problem with Colemak on a lettered board here. Nobody forces you to look down.

[czarek]

otaku keycaps not pure enough.  Remove keycaps all together and type on the stems!

Hmmm... on my white keyboard it's doable but feels slippery, on a black one where keycaps are integrated with stems it's impossible to type by just pressing springs

[digitalleftovers]

I origionally got a blank keyboard to learn to touch type, and then also got more blank keys because they look cool and freak people out.

[WhiteFireDragon]

i wanted blank key caps because they give the overall keyboard a cleaner look

[czarek]

So maybe someone could tell why he's not using blank keys? Any reasons apart from not being able to touch type properly? I guess for some games it may be tricky too...

[davkol]

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[czarek]

That's just a name Ripster, although TKL shortcut is irritating indeed.
Tell us what do you think about blank keys though.

[oneproduct]

I've got one blank, one with Colemak legends and the rest are just their original qwerty. I never look at any of them except when I'm eating or something and just using one hand to poke at a few keys. Looking at my Colemak layout actually confuses the hell out of me.

[Findecanor]

Besides one-handed typing, I look at the legends mostly when I need to position the hands. I am not used to feeling the F and J keys because 1) I am not a touch-typer and never got used to holding my hands stationary over those keys, 2) I use mostly Cherry keyboards where the F and J are scooped more instead of having dimples -- and that scooping is not very apparent. I did not notice that the F and J keys were scooped before someone told me.

I have some lasered Cherry keys that I mean to sand-blast the away legends from. They are currently in US and German layout, but I use the Swedish layout and have a difficulty finding keys in that layout. If I can not get Swedish keys, then I'd rather go blank.
I also mean to dye the keys. There are some colour schemes which would look best with white legends -- but you can only dye darker -- leaving blank keys as the only alternative.