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You're not alone on that. I use a topre-switched TKL in the office and find myself uselessly hitting the corner of the keyboard every so often.


Same. When my mostly beloved Microsoft Natural got too mushy and wobbly to tolerate anymore, I replaced it with a TKL which I tolerate but don't love. If I had it to do over again I'd get a full sized.

For my home rig I'm running a kbdfans odin which is a non-standard layout that gives you 99% of a full size layout but in a size only about 2.5 keys wider than a typical tkl. (Example: https://kbdfans.com/cdn/shop/products/9_08accc65-e9f0-4455-a...)


Realforce R3HC13[0] is what I have.

They have variants that are full-sized, which is what I'll get for home soon. Probably a 45g one rather than 30g, so that I can test the difference.

0. https://www.realforce.co.jp/products/R3HC13/


I ran one of their full sizes for years. The Topre is easily my favorite switch, but I got tired of the cost, the very limited board selection, the non-repairability, and the total lack of customization. I've got some nice boutique switches in this that are pretty light, like 40g, so it's pretty close to that feel.. I forget the exact switch offhand, but it was some limited run/special edition Kailh Box or something like that.




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