This is the best and the worst keyboard at the same time.The red switches are amazing, super light, no-strain, easy typing, just wow. Build quality- solid, very good bent shape both horizontally and vertically, high quality materials.But the wrist rest is horrible and even painful - if you place your hands on the keyboard in an ergonomoc, wrist-straight position, the palm of your left hand stands exactly on the sharp edge of the plastic. If you want both of your palms to rest on the wrist rest, you must bend your wrists inwards as you would on a regular keyboard, which defeats the purpose.The only sustainable way to use this keyboard is to find a very thin and flexible keyboard wrist rest and lay it over the edge of the keyboard’s own plastic wrist rest.If they improve the wrist rest, this would be the perfect keyboard for a variety of activities ranging from gaming to office work to coding

I purchased over 7 wired keyboards from Perixx before finding this one. Then I stocked up on this one. This is by far my favorite from Perixx. And because everything is wireless now for the most part, this might be the last awesome wired keyboard in the entire material world? Unclear. But it is a joy to use. It definitely hits the "feels like your favorite pen" mark they shoot for. I tried the tactile keys before the linear keys, and the linear keys feel best. The tactile keys are passable, but do not have that same gratifying feeling. It looks awesome also, which goes great with video content with it just sitting there looking ready for anything, like a Ferrari in your drive-way, all shined up and prepped. Anyone have a pack of show-offs needing to be raced for pink slips? I use a num pad ( separate purchase ) on the left rather than the right because the mouse is on the right already ( duh ) and so the size of this keyboard feels perfect also, between the mouse on the right and the numpad on the left. The color and textures are excellent. Again, it has that feeling of "WOW" all over it. Only thing I would change is the LED colors to Orange or set-your-own rather than Blue, but that is not anywhere near dinging even a fraction of a star for. In the future it might be nice to have backlight but again, not worth dinging it. For what it is, it is still the best keyboard on the physical plane.

EDIT: The left side of the keyboard didn't actually fail. Rather there was some odd interaction between the keyboard and the software the encrypts my hard drive sprang up out of nowhere. When starting my computer after it has been shut down and before the operating system even starts to load I have to enter a pin number that along with the chip in my badge will unlock the hard drive. For reasons I don't understand this particular software and this keyboard after about a week of working together fine, just decided to not play nice with each other. As a result I had to use the laptop's own keyboard to enter the pin. However, once unlocked and the computer fully booted up this keyboard worked just fine, including typing in exactly the same pin number to log into my account. Still it was a hassle to open the lid of my laptop every time I needed to unlock my computer, so I did return it. However, this is entirely this keyboards fault and because other than one weird thing the keyboard worked great I am increasing my rating from 3 to 5 stars.ORIGINAL: I bought this to replace the latest of several Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic keyboards that I have owned. I love the ergonomics of the MS Sculpt, but the membrane keys just aren't very durable, so a Sculpt only last me a couple of years before keys start fail. Also the membrane keys lacked the nice travel and feedback of a mechanical keys. This keyboard seemed like an ideal replacement, even though I don't like wired keyboards. And it lived up to my hopes for it, at least while it still worked.The feedback of the mechanical keys are great and they take me back to the original Microsoft Natural keyboard that was my first ergonomic keyboard way back in 1995. I also really like that it comes in 60% tenkeyless layout like the Sculpt but with a better navigation section. I can't use full sized keyboards with a ten key section (even though having a ten key really helps my efficiency when entering a lot of numbers) because the additional width pushes my mouse too far to the right resulting in a very un-ergonomic position of my shoulder which causes impingement of the tendons in my shoulder. This results in my shoulder being quite painful by the late afternoon. Eventually constant irritation caused me to develop tendinitis.So everything was going great until after just a week the left hand portion of the keyboard simply stopped working. So I am having to send it back. It is only for this unreliability that am I giving this keyboard 3 stars. There being nothing wrong with ergonomics, value for the money or comfort, I am still giving it 5 stars in each of those categories. No manufacturing process is perfect and it could be that I just got unlucky to get one of the very few that failed early. So with all of the good features and Amazons easy return policy it probably is still worth giving this keyboard a try.

十字キーと、そのうえの6つのボタンendとかhomeとかが、一週間くらい経ったある日、突然反応しなくなってしまいました。他のパソコンでも同じだったので、設定とかではなく、本当に壊れてしまったんだと思います。それ以外のキーは使えます。一体何故こうなってしまったんだろう。気に入って使ってたので、とても悲しいです。追記。usb切替器を使っていたので、本体に直接差したら直りました。切替器が窓際にあり、その日の外気温が氷点下10℃くらいだったので、接続に変な影響が出たのかもしれません。

I've been searching for many years for an ergonomic mechanical keyboard with this key configuration. The switches are nice, size is nice, the price is nice, and even though I prefer a slightly less compact keyboard this one is great. I just don't understand how they whiffed on the wrist rest because the bottom edge cuts into the pads of my hands.Was it designed for kid sized hands? Were they so interested in a straight edge bottom they chose aesthetics over ergonomics? Why is the bottom edge sharp instead of rounded like all Microsoft ergonomic keyboards, the template for wrist rest size. Mind boggling. I'll give it 4 stars initially, but if the pads of my hands get sore while using it, more stars will be removed.edit: I'll keep it 4 stars.. it works well enough. Maybe the perfect keyboard is just a bit bigger and bigger wrist rest.