DuckyOne 3 Mini Pro Nazca 8K 60% Hotswap RGB Triple Shot PBT Mechanical Keyboard - Cherry MX2A Brown

Love this keyboard. Has a very premium feel and the color combo is unconventional, but I dig it. I haven't experienced any of the negative aspects that some of the other people have mentioned. I use this keyboard at home and I'm considering buying another one for the office.

If you are on the fence about this keyboard vs the just plain One 3 or One 2 just get this one if high quality and quiet is your goal. I have gone from loud as heck to quiet as a preference in mechanical keyboards and this keyboard starts out quiet just as it is. I ended up adding switch dampener rings and it is now extremely quiet, all you really hear is the sound of the keys/switches when they pop back up to the fully uncompressed position on the smaller keys. On the larger ones I doubled the rings you hear what I assume is the stabilizers a little bit more but not bad at all. The spacebar has a nice mechanical keyboardy light thock noise, also not very loud but it is noticeable (I might slap a silencer pad in there). I could go deep down the rabbit hole of modding but I feel like from this point forward the effort isn't really worth it. Compared to the One 3, I was also trying out with the same setup, this keyboard is a quite a bit quieter; I am pretty sure you are hearing the actual switches a lot more on the One 3. As for the One 2 which I tried before the other two this is light years better for being quiet and in my opinion feels a lot better too. This One 3 Mini Pro Nazca Line definitely checked off a lot of boxes for me and is definitely worth the extra money and giving up some color options. I will be keeping an eye out for different editions of this in keyboard in the future since I like having my desk look all matchy match. It is really great keyboard for the price and ease of making it extremely quiet. Oh, the brown switches also feel just like how brown switches are always described but rarely feel in practice. I think I might try the red switch version too just to make sure I have my forever (for now) keyboard. No ragrets!

I wanted to upgrade. I type for a living, and all I had was a crappy Dell OEM keyboard that I got from work.So I splurged. I got myself something GREAT.I thought.1. This keyboard has a lot of customization options - - but no software to customize it with. All magical key combinations that you have to google online, because it also does not come with a manual.2. The keys are buttery smooth. Delicious. Except the space bar. The space bar is LOUD!!!!! CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK between every word. GOOD THING the space bar isn't the MOST USED KEY on the keyboard, right?3. GHOSTING! How can a $160 keyboard, that advertises "anti-ghosting" have this many ghosting issues? DOuble CApitalization every other time, double spaces between words, spa ces in the mid dle of wo rds, unintentionaal doouble lletters.. ALL the time. Worse than my worn out old Dell, even.4. Caps. It comes with a small bag of replacement key-caps, in case you have terrible taste and want your enter and cursor keys to be orange. But no replacement cap for the context-menu key. It comes with two Windows keys. There's a DIP switch on the back to change the right one into context-menu, like it should be (which you have to google your way to find out.) But no keycap to make the key represent what its intended behavior.I got this keyboard yesterday. I was super excited. And now I'm not.I was going to give it a week, to see if I just need to get used to it. And I'm planning on doing that. I type for a living, so a good keyboard is tantamount.But it looks like I"ll be returning it so far.I reachedd out to Ducky through their website's contact form, AND by sending an email. Nothing so far, not even an automated "we got your message" response.Definitely can't recommend, and definitely won't be shopping Ducky again.EDIT: Got a response from Ducky. They condescendingly seem to claim that I'm at fault for the space bar being noisy, because they DEFINITELY checked it before shipping, that since the One 2 they've decided that orange novelty keycaps are still important, but an actually useful one like the context cap is not. No mention on the ghosting, and a non-apology that they're "currently working on transitioning the website".

The keyboard itself sounds great and performs well. The build quality is nice and I would not have expected this was a plastic as it is based on the finish. 8k polling rate is working without issue for me on Windows 10 and Linux.I wish documentation were better as most keyboards in their lineup use a webui for customization whereas this board is purely configured via button combinations. It is at least a nice attention to detail however that once you start learning some the keyboard is good about lighting up the areas of relevant keys to guide you further. On the note of lights though, really frustrating that a chip / sensor wasn't added for RGB to turn off when a computer is in a powered off state... it's just really frustrating and lazy.

This replaced my old Logitech G413. Thought I would like the MX Brown switches as the RomerG switches on the Logitech were supposedly based on Cherry MX Browns, but quickly swapped them for Gateron Pro Yellows and am quite happy with the yellows. Had an issue with the RGB not cycling through all the options that were supposed to be available, but turns out it was due to Win11 settings, Ducky support responded to my email on the issue within 24 hours. RGB works well, easy to customize colors. Layout is perfect for office work where you require a number pad. Overall, I'm quite happy with this keyboard after the switch change, and figuring out the issue with Win11 and the RGB, just may have selected a different switch originally if I had done a little more homework.