How shiny are your keys?

[timw4mail]

Some keyboards are shinier than others. But how shiny your keys are can indicated how well used a keyboard is.

My Scorpius M10 with it's blank Filco keys betrays the fact that I don't use the right shift key.

What does your keyboard say about you?

[microsoft windows]

My keyboards say that my hands are dirty sometimes.

[itlnstln]

All I know is that my HHKB doesn't have shiny keys, except for a little spot on the spacebar, and it's been abused for 10-12 hours a day for several months now.

[timw4mail]

All I know is that my HHKB doesn't have shiny keys, except for a little spot on the spacebar, and it's been abused for 10-12 hours a day for several months now.

Well, these blank Filco keys are known for getting shiny quickly. My netbook keyboard is much less shiny than my Scorpius for that reason.

[ch_123]

My Filco caps never went shiny. One of those 'depends on how sweaty the user is' things?

[itlnstln]

I don't know how much you have been lurking over the past couple of months, but Majestouch is working on sourcing double-shot caps for Filcos from Signature Plastics.  While they won't be blank, they should be better quality.  The Geekhack caps that have come from them have been pretty awesome.  If the Filco caps work for your Scorpius, those might be an option for you if they come to fruition.

[itlnstln]

My Filco caps never went shiny. One of those 'depends on how sweaty the user is' things?

All three sets I had went shiny in a couple of weeks.  Then again, I tend to be pretty abrasive at times.

*rimshot*

[timw4mail]

I don't know how much you have been lurking over the past couple of months, but Majestouch is working on sourcing double-shot caps for Filcos from Signature Plastics.  While they won't be blank, they should be better quality.  The Geekhack caps that have come from them have been pretty awesome.  If the Filco caps work for your Scorpius, those might be an option for you if they come to fruition.

But...I like my shiny blank keys...

[hyperlinked]

All I know is that my HHKB doesn't have shiny keys, except for a little spot on the spacebar, and it's been abused for 10-12 hours a day for several months now.

Your keyboard gives you away. I always suspected that you were undead.

Curiously enough, one of my most abused keys is the ">" key. It must be all those girly smilies I keep making. :>)

Or maybe it's all the HTML coding and PHP programming.

I'm sure I use other keys more, but that's the only one that's starting to rub off and this Filco Brown's been in use for less than a year.

[gr1m]

I'm expecting F5 to go shiny pretty quickly. No better key for trollin'.

[Findecanor]

Most keys on my previous keyboard (Keytronic rubber dome, before I got mechanical) are blank.
The empty space between the arrow keys and the Ins/Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn cluster is also blank. I think that I use to rest my right hand right there.

[sixty]

It took me less than a week to get a shiny spot on my Realforce spacebar. Now after about a month it looks just like the one ripster posted a while ago, if not worse.

[ch_123]

Speaking of Ripster, where is he?

[wellington1869]

Speaking of Ripster, where is he?

gh is running low on lego-narrative

[chongyixiong]

Probably setting up some Lego shots to show off his shiny spacebar.

Yeah, I have shiny keys and the most apparent one is the slightly off center right of the spacebar on my Filco Tenkeyless blank keys.

I think white is still the best if you wanna go blank and want to reduce the easiness of spotting that shiny spacebar.

[ch_123]

gh is running low on lego-narrative

Totally, it's almost oppressive.

[timw4mail]

Totally, it's almost oppressive.

No wonder you guys missed me. Anything to shake up Geekhack with Ripster missing, eh?

[microsoft windows]

Yeah. I noticed he's not here too. Maybe he's on vacation or something.

[Superfluous Parentheses]

My Model M doesn't appear to be shiny at all. Dirty, yes.

[timw4mail]

My Model M doesn't appear to be shiny at all. Dirty, yes.

Before I got a set of blank black keys for it, the keys on my 1987 Model M were starting to be a little shiny. It just seems to take the longest for those keys to shine.

[whininggit]

I have been using my Cherry G80-3000 with POM lasered caps for nearly 2 years and only recently has an area begun to appear on the space bar, and even then it is not visible from most angles (and those that it is, barely so). PBT seems to be considerably more wear-resistant than ABS. Even though I don't have any way to quantify "wear", I would guess it's an order of magnitude more durable.

The Logitech keyboards at work have gone shiny (most keys, not just the space-bar) within weeks of the users getting them!

[hyperlinked]

Speaking of Ripster, where is he?

Well ask yourself this: Has anyone ever seen Ripster and webwit in the same room together?

Didn't think so!

[d4rkst4r]

I thought I heard Ripster mention he was heading to the far east in July. I don't remember where, though.

[itlnstln]

I thought I heard Ripster mention he was heading to the far east in July. I don't remember where, though.

JAPAN.  (said in SFII announcer's voice)

[hyperlinked]

JAPAN.  (said in SFII announcer's voice)

JAPAN... APAN... APAN... PAN...

Oh ****. I have the Didjamatic reverb turned on again.

[ricercar]

yeah, rip's in Japan. And he wouldn't take any pre-orders either. The bastard.

[timw4mail]

yeah, rip's in Japan. And he wouldn't take any pre-orders either. The bastard.

I wish I could go to Japan...

[SLM]

I'm happily hacking around on a very used eBay black G80-8200 with double shots.  That big ole Enter key is worn smooth and shiny but God only knows how much use it saw before I got it.  I wish I knew somebody who could do the sandblast thing to it to make it look mostly new again.

[timw4mail]

I'm happily hacking around on a very used eBay black G80-8200 with double shots.  That big ole Enter key is worn smooth and shiny but God only knows how much use it saw before I got it.  I wish I knew somebody who could do the sandblast thing to it to make it look mostly new again.

Shiny double-shots? Must have been quite used.

[ch_123]

yeah, rip's in Japan. And he wouldn't take any pre-orders either. The bastard.

I demand a 5576-003 as tribute.

[microsoft windows]

Shiny double-shots? Must have been quite used.

My white Alps keyboard with double-shots has pretty worn-out key surfaces.

[SLM]

Shiny double-shots? Must have been quite used.

Oh I'm sure.  I have no idea what type of business it was used in.  I've never bothered to take it apart, just pulled a couple keys here and there.  Some of the used eBay boards look like they took them from a dry cleaner or clothing factory there's so much lint under the keys but this one is actually quite clean in that regard, just the Enter that's shiny.  It might help that the F keys and arrow keys are the clear topped ones.

It's a big honking board but it has browns and NKRO so I've been digging it for quite a while now.