3 years ago, my best friend got me my first mechanical keyboard. A brown (knock off) switch keyboard by TTESports. Obviously not a top brand, but I loved the thing to death and the LEDS (when they were just set to lightly glow on a key I just pressed instead of burning bright constantly). The problem is, after just a year it started losing inputs on the numpad. A year later, my space bar started double inputting (if you've looked at any of my posts on this forum you'll have seen them constantly). I tore the thing apart, cleaned it, reassembled with no luck... but I persevered because I loved the brown switches. Quiet but with very nice actuation. Then the final straw happened over the last few days... the backspace was double or triple inputting. I can live with the odd space-spacing... but having my entire typing rhythm thrown off when I make a minor mistake was a step too far and I dug out my old, but trusty, membrane keyboard.
Originally I was pretty upset, I've never had a keyboard deteriorate so quickly that hadn't had something spilled on top of it, and even then most had survived once we got into the 00's... but looking back, 3 years isn't exactly a small amount of time especially for non-name brand hardware. Still, I was curious on average how long do mechanical keyboards tend to last everyone in general?
Originally I was pretty upset, I've never had a keyboard deteriorate so quickly that hadn't had something spilled on top of it, and even then most had survived once we got into the 00's... but looking back, 3 years isn't exactly a small amount of time especially for non-name brand hardware. Still, I was curious on average how long do mechanical keyboards tend to last everyone in general?
