All manufacturers mess up. I've been lucky and never had an issue with any keycap, from any manufacturer, but I see this kind of thing with everyone. GMK just have a more critical spotlight on them, and when things like this happen, because they are expensive, and people have waited two years, they make more noise about it, and you are more likely to see it. I'm not excusing them or anything... just saying that there's no more reason to not buy GMK than any other manufacturer's group buy sets, apart from wait times of course, but you have all that to worry about with others as well. GMK aren't unique in the long wait department.

I never understood that. It's like saying, I had a car ruin all my enjoyment of driving. I'd still enjoy driving... just not that car. I'd get another car. Sorry... your comment just made me consider why any of us are here.

It sounds like you were searching for something specific, and you found it, but many of us carry on if we find that, because it's our hobby, and we enjoy it, so no, I've not found my end game. I've found boards that from a typing perspective, are perfect, but to just stop with the hobby because of that, is like a model maker, or a writer, or a musician stopping making models. writing or composing because he achieves perfection. It's the doing he enjoys, so he carries on.

Just a thought... I'm not saying it has, but I don't think anyone is stupid enough to make some kind of spyware, and actually call it "AudioRecord.exe".

Kapersky is probably the problem. Does the board have an audio reactive LED mode? It's probably something like that.

This can happen to any hot swap board. The sockets need to be supported from the rear while inserting switches, as a bent pin can just push the socket off instead of being inserted into the socket. There's a post like this at least once a week from people with all manner of boards, from a range of manufacturers. It's not a reflection of Idobao quality.

I agree. I'd love it if there was a totally British made board (if there is, I'd love to know), but some of the Chinese machining work is very high quality.

Keycult now manufacture in the US, and since they decided to do that, quality has taken a nosedive it would seem.

That's not what I was saying :) If you like the board, everything is cool. My criticism is of Glorious... not you.

So is the Q1.... cheaper.... working gasket mount.

Ridiculous... paying them for the fix to a design they got wrong. I'd have thought that would be fitted as standard on all new ones, or at least simply a choice... you know, like choosing the colour... you choose if you want firm, or flex. If you still pay for it, that means that a board they advertise as a gasket mount, actually costs $240 bare bones if you want the gasket mount to work. That's the same price as a QK75. That's outrageous. I genuinely thought they would offer the fix free. It is a fix BTW... not an option. The gasket mount just doesn't work. I have a GMMK Pro... it's as solid and stiff as a tray mount.

Do you still have to pay Glorious to fix the gasket mount, or are they doing the decent thing and including the "flex kit" for free these days?

Stunning.

Which is why I also recommend quotations... and real life typing as part of the practice routine. However, using English 10K in Monkeytype, does expose you to many, many more ngrams in a real woRd setting, even if it's not a real worLd setting, and is still highly beneficial when practicing.

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>The english 200 setting thing is very true, I'm 130-140wpm on that setting and only 110-120 on english 10k, add punctuation and caps to that and I'm like 100-110 at best

Don't worry about speed. It's not important.

Good luck. Take your time, and enjoy it :)

If I drove at 50mph for 30 minutes, then I'm doing 25mph.... perfect logic LOL :) Although, in that hour, I did only drive 25 miles, but yeah... that was a stupid analogy. Although... speed and velocity are not the same thing.. but now my head is starting to hurt :)

OK, I see what you mean now. I would set the runs to max, as it avoids repetition. As for practice balance, I would do 15 mins of ngrams, and 15 mins of Monkeytype at 10k per session. Occasionally, set it to quotations, but let's be honest, you will get real world practice when you're just typing. I treat all typing as practice. (edit - if you do no real world typing regularly, then use quotations as part of your daily routine). Replying to you now is practice :) One piece of advise I stand by though, is stop when you start to make mistakes... or at least when your mistakes start to increase. At that point it's doing you no good. Weirdly, muscle memory "embeds" itself after you stop practicing... even when you're asleep that night. You always notice improvements the next day (or at least several hours later), and never while you are actually practicing. Take breaks and split your practice into smaller sessions rather than one mammoth session.Enjoy.

The first column is to set how many letters each ngram contains... bi, tri or tetragrams. Set this to whatever you want, as it makes sense to practice them all. The second column sets how many ngrams per run, and how many times they are repeated. The last column speaks for itself; It sets a minimum wpm limit- fall below it and you fail. Accuracy limit the same. If set to 100, then you will fail unless you type perfectly.

Sure. I'll take a look later. :)

You're welcome. None of what I wrote was a criticism. Just want to help you become a good typist, as I think it's an important skill that everyone should have. I hope you find some of that useful, and good luck in learning.

Can I give you some advice? Do not use the "english" setting to practice typing. It only uses 200 words, and it gives a false idea of your true typing speed. Instead, use English 10K, or better still, quotations (Edit - as well as, not in place of), as the former uses a 10,000 word database, and the latter uses punctuation and more a more real world experience. Also, 30 second tests are not a great measure of anything either. At least one minute, or better still, two will give a more accurate idea of your true speed.

Thirdly. If you wish to go fast.... then go slow. If you push for speed, then you make more mistakes, and regularly making mistakes will harm the muscle memory required to be accurate. Chase accuracy, not speed. Speed will come naturally anyway whether you want it or not, but accuracy will not. That has to be worked at. Shoot for accuracy, and always correct mistakes by ctrl+backspacing them out and retyping correctly several times (set freedom mode in Monkeytype). If you were completely accurate, you'd be at 73 wpm already (raw speed).

Practice your ngrams. Disable the sounds though... they are super annoying, and actually put you off LOL. Whoever thought that crappy typewriter sounds, that actually lag behind your keystrokes was a good idea, wants a good talking to :)

Good touch typing relies on ngram muscle memory. Nothing improves your typing like practicing ngrams, backed up by real typing in the real world. If you are unfamiliar with this concept, then you need to realise what it is that makes the human brain able to touch type. It's the ability for humans to recognise patterns. We are very good at it. It's an evolutionary developed trait for survival, but it's what also makes us able to do stuff like this. Take a word... any word, and you will see that it can be broken down into sets of letters that are shared with other words. "Statistically" for example. Stat, ist, ically, are all components of other words, so once your brain has recognised and practiced typing those, it instantly recognises them in other words. It's this skill that allows a competent typist to type any word, even ones they have never seen before, yet still type them as fast and competently as any other word. It also allows fast reading ahead, which is another skill a competent touch typist needs.

Having said that, well done. Touch typing is cool :) Keep up the good work. Take my upvote.

OOh, they look comfy :)

I didn't want to be so blunt.... but yeah LOL

So how do you use the left control key? ;) Surely that would hit the bezel unless it's a really low profile board. Sticking out over the bezel really really triggers me LOL

That looks mint! Does it still work?