Kinesis Advantages 2: Lubing and Dampening

After a Ducky One 2 SF and then my  first build, a KBDFans DZ65RGB, I have to say my first impression wasn’t good. The keys are wabbling, the switches are scratchy, and the sound is very hollow. And of top, the software to program any keys is crap. You can’t program a combination of two keys mapped to one, and there is essentially no second layer that you can shift with a key while holding, only toggle until you toggle it back.

Luckily after lubing the Cherry MX brown switches and filling the keyboard with kitchen towels (no joke), it’s getting better and better every day and especially getting used to the ergonomic keyboard, which was the whole reason for buying it. I’m still down at a couple of 40 words per minute, but accuracy and comfort are very high. I’m looking forward to using it for a while now.

I guess the next layout must be the same as, most probably after getting used to it more, there is no way of going back to a standard layout. At least, that is what I read here as well.

This is My Kinesis Advantages 2:

Improved dumpening the sound

Inspiration for Kitchen Towels

For dampening, I used this: Kinesis Advantage2 LF Keyboard: My Custom QWERTY Layout, Touch-Typing, Dampening, Switches

Posted my first day review on Reddit

My post on Reddit: new keyboard: kinesis advantage 2 : MechanicalKeyboards

# Update 2024-03-30

Origin: Kinesis Advantage 2
References: My KBDFans DZ65RGB