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A Mechanical Experience This is my review on the Ducky Shine 3 Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches. The feel of the click and the clack is indescribable! My fingers float above the keycaps eagerly waiting to press them in a satisfyingly quick motion. The response my fingers receive from the Cherry MX Red switches is immediate and orgasmic! Ahhh this keyboard is amazing!!!!! I love writing on it so much. This is my first mechanical keyboard ever and I have to say I am glad I bought one! I was on the verge of buying the Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth, but watching the video from Linus Tech Tips changed my mind and I began my hunt for the best mechanical keyboard. One of the reasons I chose the Ducky Shine 3 is the fact that no software is needed out of the box. Managing the Blue LEDs is all done on the keyboard itself. I’m also not a fan of this ridiculous RGB craze going on right now in the keyboard market. I love the fact that my keyboard and mouse have LEDs, but it’s not the sole reason I bought them. Their performance and build quality were the main reasons. LEDs were just a bonus to the amazing package. This was also why I didn’t buy the Razer Mamba 2012 immediately after it was released. Yes the DPI was increased a bit and yes it did come with an improved sensor system, but it wasn’t enough for me to spend another $130.00 on another mouse. My 5 year old Razer Mamba was still working perfectly (for the time being at least) and I wasn’t even going to close to the 5600 DPI max on that, so the DPI increase didn’t motivate me too much. Also the mouse was the exact same physically, except for the RGB lighting. It wasn’t until this past November that I finally became fed up with my old Mamba giving me issues. And when I say issues I mean big problems. My mouse’s sensor wasn’t tracking properly at all and would skip VERY often. And this was only after I managed to turn it on and get it to work at all. Sometimes the sensor was so bad that I wouldn’t manage to get it to even start tracking period. I even tried a new battery for it thinking that might be the source of the problem, but nope. I gave in and bought the Razer Mamba 2012. The RGB lighting is nice and all, but I still don’t use the sensor’s max DPI setting of 6400 at all. The most I use is 4600 and that’s on Skyrim. Overall I’m glad the mouse functions perfectly and all, but if my old Mamba hadn’t failed I would probably still be using it to this day. Now as for my Alienware M15X’s keyboard, I love it! It’s been great and hasn’t failed me in the 6 years that I’ve been using it. The Alienware FX lighting is also really nice, but like I said before it isn’t the sole reason I love it. The texture of the keys is really nice! Almost like PCB keycaps. Also the tactile response I get from typing on it is great. It’s definitely one of the better keyboards made for a laptop. After watching many videos on keyboards, I finally decided to buy a mechanical keyboard. I first looked at Razer’s own Blackwidow Ultimate since I loved their Razer Mamba gaming mouse. But after almost buying it on Newegg, I watched another one of Linus’ videos on keyboard reviews. This was actually the Corsair K70 RGB keyboard review. One of the “Recommended videos” on the side of the video was Linus’ review of the Ducky Shine 3. It blew me away! Finally a keyboard that isn’t obsessed about RGB lighting that, at least according to Linus, had a phenomenal build quality. I looked further in to the keyboard itself and after finally making up my mind about Cherry MX switches vs Razer’s own Razer Switches, which many reviews said were worse, I decided I was going to buy the Ducky Shine 3. It finally arrived today in the mail and I couldn’t stop myself from smiling (although this tends to happen to me when I am eagerly awaiting a package delivery). I took great care in un-boxing it and took my time appreciating the box in which it came. I read the box’s description many times and glided my fingers over the textured lettering on the cover of the box. I finally opened the box and slowly took out the keyboard and the rest of the contents. I laid the keyboard to the side while I appreciated the small wire keycap puller Ducky provided. I also looked at the extra “WASD” orange/red keycaps that were also provided before setting them back in the box as I knew that I was going to keep the black keycaps already on the keyboard. I gave the manual a read or two, but I was already fairly familiar with the keyboard seeing as how I had spent many days prior to its arrival watching both in depth reviews and un-boxing videos on the keyboard, as I tend to do with most things I take time purchasing. I gave the warranty card a quick read and then set both of the paper contents back in the box. I grabbed the keyboard with both hands and immediately felt the weight behind the keyboard. I love this as it gives a true physical measure of an item’s “premium” quality. The keycaps are gorgeous and I love the layout. I was also happy to find that the keyboard itself fit in the keyboard drawer of my desk. I used the included wire puller to pull one of the keycaps to double check that my keyboard had Red MX switches, as the Amazon webpage I bought it from was slightly confusing. It claimed in the “title” that the keyboard was indeed Blue LED lit and that it had Red MX switches, but further reading led me to believe that the keyboard might actually have Black MX switches. I assumed as it was the actual description that I had made a mistake and bought Black MX switches, but I gave in to the idea anyways. It wasn’t a huge deal to me. I watched many videos and written reviews on comparisons of the many different switches Cherry offered. Seeing as how the Red switches were made with gaming more in mind, that’s what I wanted to buy. Further inspection though revealed that Brown MX switches are the preferred switches for most gamers as the switches provided a tactile bump that gives the user a physical indication that the actuation point in the keyboard has been achieved, whereas the Red switches made for gaming are linear and provide no tactile bump. The benefit of the Red switch though is that the switch’s actuation point requires less force to reach and as such lets players effortlessly press multiple keys with little to no fatigue. Anyways, after using the keyboard now for a day I can say with complete certainty that I love the keyboard and the Red MX switches. A little getting used to is in order and that will develop over time and usage, but even after just a single day I love the feeling of typing on this keyboard! I actually opened this Microsoft Word page with absolutely no intention on writing a 4 page document that would turn in to a full review of my experience with the Ducky Shine 3 and the research that went into buying it prior to clicking that “buy” button. Ultimately I figured after writing sentence after sentence to try out the typing experience of the Ducky Shine 3, I might as well double check my grammar and spelling errors and finally post it online with the only intention being to give possible buyers of this phenomenal keyboard a more “personal” kind of review and not a strictly detailed review with facts and numbers that might only give a reader so much understanding on the usage of the keyboard. I know that at least for me, reading the facts on the “actuation point” and “tactile bumps” only gave me a theoretical understanding with no prior history on mechanical keyboards to help me better understand what I was getting myself in to. Finally, if this quaint little review helps you out in any way then great! If not and you managed to read all the way until the end, then my bad bro! There are plenty of more in-depth reviews on the Ducky Shine 3 though, including the wonderful review Linus made. Regardless, thanks for reading the words from someone who rarely feels like commenting on practically anything, much less writing pages about it! Haha Take care everyone!

I regularly use virtual desktops in windows 10. The shortcut to switch virtual desktops is ctrl+win+left or right arrow key depending on which desktop you want to switch to. I would like to create a macro that does this, one for ctrl+win+left arrow and one for ctrl+win+right arrow. I am having trouble creating this macro because the arrow keys are already in the function layer on the ducky one 2 mini. Anyone have any ideas or know how to make this work?

I was playing League of Legends yesterday and I pressed a couple of keys around the Enter, Backspace and F keys area. For some reason the keyboard just outright stopped working for some reason. I have tried all USB ports on my computer, I have even tried just plugging the keyboard into a 5V power adapter and tried turning on the demo mode. So far nothing is working. I have bought they keyboard brand new, but not from a reseller, so I don't have the reseller stamp on my warranty card. I have already contacted them about the problem but I don't think that the warranty is active, so I would rather not waste my time sending a keyboard away and hassling with importing and exporting, as I don't live in the countries listed in the drop down list on the ducky warranty form. I have tried everything: holding Left Alt + Spacebar while plugging in the keyboard to the computer holding Right Alt + Spacebar while plugging in the keyboard to the computer holding the Z key while plugging in the keyboard into the computer holding the Z while the keyboard is plugged in flipping all of the DIP switches while the keyboard was unplugged (with a 15 second wait inbetween) doing all that with a different USB-C cable As I said, the keyboard is just not working at all. Windows does not recognize that the keyboard is plugged in at all. When I try to update the firmware through the Ducky RGB software does not recognize the keyboard either. The backlight does not work at all when I plug it in or while it's plugged in. The keyboard is a full size Ducky One 2 RGB backlit ISO version. Has anyone had this problem and fixed it? What did you do to fix the problem? EDIT: I think I have narrowed down the problem to the USB port. Does anyone know what the replacement part is called or where I can get it? I sadly don't have a soldering set so that's out of the question for me.

Can anyone tell me what these ducky ninja keycaps are and where I can buy them? The ones in this video:

So around two days ago my keyboard met a wall face first so as you assume I need a new keyboard Right now I'm looking at a Ducky One TKL Cherry mx blue but its not going to be in stock for a while. Could someone link me to a retailer who has this keyboard in stock?

Hi there. I recently spotted this (ducky one tkl rbg) kb online and almost wanted to get it. But the thing stopped me is that people (and the manual) say there's no option to adjust an overall brightness level. I mean, in non-single colour mode (effects and etc). Is this true? Or there's just some misinformation? Thanks.

Basically the title, It would be cool if Luke redone his old reviews, when I say old I mean when his mom filmed him reviewing a ducky keyboard with a bong shaped bottle in the background.

Should I get Ducky Shine 6 PBT or Corsair K95 Platinum for my first mechanical gaming keyboard? If Ducky, Should I go with MX Brown, Red, or Blue switches for gaming and typing? If Corsair, Should I go with MX Brown or Speed switches

So I spent $400 on new peripherals for my new white setup, and wanted to share some pics here I had limited space on my DIY keyboard tray, and I never used any of the macros or number pad on my K95 RGB, so I decided to get a TKL keyboard that was white. Ducky is one of the best keyboard brands, and they make a white TKL keyboard. Unfortunately it either comes with RGB or no LED, there is no pure white LED option so I had to go with RGB. Also added 0.4mm blue (soft) o-rings to the MX-red switches. I also replaced my MX Master with an MX Master 2s that comes in "light gray" which is basically white. Interestingly enough, the white shell of the keyboard perfectly matches the white shell of the mouse, and the "super light gray" of the keycaps matches the "super light gray" on the surface of the mouse! It's like these two peripherals were made for eachother! Even though the light gray is almost white, it still shows up pretty gray on the camera. The brighter the ambient light is, the whiter they look. It's basically just two different shades of white IMO, I wouldn't really call it gray. I also used white anker micro USB cables for both, and the 'white' cable is also the same shade of 'super light gray' as the mouse and keyboard keys. Overall, an excellent pair of peripherals, great quality for both. I highly recommend these to anyone looking for white peripherals for a white setup. PS - Pics of my new fully-white setup are coming soon!

Hello All, I have the money to buy a mechanical keyboard, and I know that i want a keyboard with mx blues, and rgb. The two keyboards I have narrowed it down to are the K70 RGB LUX MX Blue, with the replacement keycaps, and the Ducky Shine 5 White edition with MX Blues. Which one is the better keyboard? And I have a black, red a white setup (White M65 with red LED) Thanks, Josh

So I was going to get a ducky shine 5, after seeing them sold out basically everywhere I investigated why.Turns out the shine 6 is coming out next month (delayed release).I have a new pc coming in about a weeks time and I want to wait for the shine 6, what should I do in the meantime? Can anyone recommend some mechanical keyboards under £50 ?

Hello guys! My Logitech G413 keyboard broke (the spacebar key thore off somehow) and because of this I need a new keyboard. I am thorn apart between the following below ones. Can you help me make a descision? Keyboard - Price in my Country - Cooler Master CK550 RGB (MX RED) - €80 Ducky One 2 Skyline (MX Silver) - €130 Corsair K63 (MX Red) - €110 The thing is that the the Cooler Master is nearly 2 times cheaper than the Ducky and and not as much as the Corsair. But I am looking for reliability here and just don't know what to choose. Just to warn you - never buy a Logitech as it appears that a lot of people have problems with the reliability. They last for two years and they break down. Thank you very much for your help, Demm

Hello guys! My Logitech G413 keyboard broke (the spacebar key thore off somehow) and because of this I need a new keyboard. I am thorn apart between the following below ones. I am okay with NO RGB and TKL. Can you help me make a descision? Keyboard - Price in my Country: Cooler Master CK550 RGB (MX RED) - €80 Ducky One 2 Skyline (MX Silver) - €130 Corsair K63 (MX Red) - €110 The thing is that the the Cooler Master is nearly 2 times cheaper than the Ducky and and not as much as the Corsair. But I am looking for reliability here and just don't know what to choose. Just FYI- never buy a Logitech keyboard as it turns out that a lot of people have problems with keys not working or double-registering. They last for two years and they break down. Thank you very much for your help, Demm

I am very happy with my Ducky keyboard. But ever since I installed the software from the Ducky website i've been having some issues with it. The brightness isn't as bright as it used to be and the FN keys don't light up/ flicker when I press it. I have tried pressing the fn+up key to adjust the brightness but nothing really works. I hope someone can help me out with this issue Thanks

Need some Advice and Recommendation, Here’s my keyboard list 1.Ducky One 2 Mini RGB 2.Anne Pro 2 3.Steelseries Apex 7 TKL Which is the best ? Really appreciate If u have other recommendation As for keyboard size , i really want to try TKL Or 60% keyboard for new experience haha Thanks all

So i've been looking for a set of Ducky one 2 PBT white keycaps to spice up my keyboard a bit but I haven't been able to find these anywhere online. Does anybody know how to get these in europe? I'm looking for these: https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Ducky-PBT-Double-shot-White-backlit-keycap

Ducky revealed a new keyboard on their Facebook page, they called it "Ducky Freedom". As the name implied, you can moved around freely with this keyboard as it is a wireless mechanical keyboard. But what's interesting is that besides bluebooth and USB (USB-C), it supports 2.4GHz wireless as well. Besides, it has a new exterior design, with durable seamless PBT double shot keycaps, 3-stages keyboard stand, and Cherry MX switches. Of course, RGB is available on this keyboard. But it was only available when it was plugged in via usb, RGB backlit won't be available when the keyboard was connected wirelessly. No words on pricing, config and release date of this keyboard, but it will be shown on Computex 2019, as it was stated on the facebook post.

Hi.. I need Some advice im going to buy This mouse : 1.Steelseries Rival 650 2.Logitech G Pro Wireless For Keyboards 1.Steelseries Apex M750 TKL 2.Ducky One 2 Mini RGB i Need advice which One is more durable and can be used for a long time.. Thanks For helping me ?

Hello, I've recently purchased the keyboard Ducky One 2 mini, and so far it's great. The build quality and switches are awesome. But as this is a 60% keyboard I've been trying to create some macros to make up for the keys I've lost. The only macros I've added so far is the arrow keys. (Fn + I) and so on, this worked greated until I noticed something strange. When I type in word for example, I sometimes want to delete whole blocks of text, to do this I press (ctrl + shift + arrow_key). The problem however, is that when I do this with a macro key, if i hold down shift + ctrl and press the arrow key once it spams the command repeatedly. Whenever I release the ctrl + shift buttons it stop marking blocks of text. How come the macro gets stuck and repeats itself? Thanks in advance! /James

i had posted a thread before for a wireless mechanical keyboard, after seeing the prices of some keyboards i think its best to consider the "better options" out there looking for something under 100$ (preferably) would probably stretch until 130$, wont go far beyond that preferences: 1. i really want to try out the mx browns, or something similar, have been using the roamer g's for a while now and currently looking for something new 2. rgb would be nice but it isn't a necesity 3. not going any smaller than TKL currently considering the Ducky one 2 but i am open to alternatives.

I'm having a tough time deciding between which 60% mechanical keyboard to get for about $100. 1. Ducky one 2 mini 2. Anne pro 2 3. Glorious GMMK Compact (hot swappable switches) They're all great boards and I'm really not sure what to do. I've heard that the ducky has some side flex, which is a bit of a turn off for me because I'm used to the aluminum on my k70. I've heard the anne pro 2 has some tilt on the keycaps (not straight) but I'm not sure if that's a keycap problem or a placement of the switches problem. I've also heard that the gmmk has loud/bad stabilizers. I'm coming from a cherry brown keyboard, and like it, but I'm not sure if the gaterons would be easy to adjust to or if they're very good. I wouldn't want much lighter of a switch than what my cherry browns are like. Thanks for any responses!

My uncle bought a storage unit and found this mechanical keyboard. He gave to me because he didn't want it and thought maybe I can use it. I took a look at it and it looks like the USB type c connector snap off and I thought it would be an easy fix. When opening it up it look like the previous owner tried to fix it and did a crap job. As you can see the part where the type c connects to is all scratched up. Now, when I place the connector on the PCB board, the keyboard rgb leds lights up, but my PC says USB keyboard not recognized and the keyboard won't type anything. I'm asking this community if this keyboard is DOA or if it is possible to fix it because I always wanted a keyboard like this and it has cherry mx brown switches.

I’m thinking on getting the ducky one 2 mini pure white, I was thinking on getting it with cherry mx reds but heard they aren’t the best. The keyboard also comes with Kailh box whites, speed copper and speed pro burgundy. So my question is are Kailh switches good and if so what one should I go with out of the 3 or should I stick to cherry mx

Hi, I have got a ducky shine version.. laying around for a while. It was gifted to me by a friend who spilled milk over it. I cleaned it fully with alcohol (98%) and it still won’t work. I want to ask you guys if its still fixable or is it for the trash? When you plug it in all lights flash for 1 second and then only W A S D stay on and F5 stays on for about 4s. You can see the footage below. hope to hear some tips Regards Mats IMG_3547.MOV

First review here on the forum, so hopefully the formatting and all isn't too rough. I might edit and try to further improve it later on. I've been using the Ducky Shine 7 for close to a month now, specifically the Gunmetal Grey variant with Cherry MX Brown switches. Throughout this time I've used it for gaming, writing and a tiny bit of coding, and my experience with it has been great so far. It retails at $159.99 in the US, and surprisingly I managed to get it at a very close price compared to MSRP, which is 150 euro. In the box, along with the keyboard you get a Ducky branded keycap remover, an extra set of coloured keycaps and stylised Chinese Zodiac spacebar, the keyboard's cable (USB-C to USB-A) and a manual. All of the keycaps are high-quality doubleshot PBT, with the exception of the stylised spacebar which is made out of ABS. It still feels good to the touch nonetheless, though with long-term use it might get kind of messy. The stabilisation on all the keys in on point, and the font is very clean and easily readable. This is actually one of the things that has made me steer clear of other gaming keyboards like Corsair's, which have a very gaudy font on the keycaps in my opinion. In fact, this "gaming" keyboard wouldn't look out of place even in an office environment at all: Along with the keycaps, what also makes the Shine 7 feel so good to type on is the solid zinc alloy plate that covers the top and sides of the keyboard, which gives it a very premium and solid feel, resulting in barely any flex whatsoever. Granted this does come at a cost, it is fairly heavy, coming in at just under 1.5kg, so portability is not exactly one of the Shine 7's strong suits. It's just too bad that the premium quality doesn't extend to the included cable, which feels cheap and is rather short. Thankfully it is removable and therefore replaceable, but this is still a little disappointing when taking into account the price of this particular keyboard. Another problem, or inconvenience rather, is the fact that the red PCB and LEDs underneath the spacebar are visible and quite distracting at certain angles. Pretty minor detail but hopefully this will get revised in a future iteration. For ergonomics, there are two separate incline settings if you're into that, and by default the keyboard is completely flat. There is no wrist rest included here, unfortunately. Typing on the Ducky Shine 7 feels excellent. After having used exclusively Cherry MX Blues for several years, I've got to say that MX Browns still have a pretty noteworthy sound when bottomed out on this particular keyboard, but aren't even close to being as loud as Blues. The switch itself feels nice and responsive, if a little mushy. These actually feel a lot more linear than I was expecting from a switch that's clearly marketed as tactile. Don't get me wrong, the tactile bump is there, but it's so slight that they're not even close to MX Blues when it comes to their tactility. If anything, this actually made me want to try out linear switches, particularly MX Blacks. Maybe that'll be my next switch of choice, who knows. Ducky's RGB software, to be frank, really needs some polishing. I mean it works, but it's not even close to being on par with how their keyboards feel physically. The software allows for full RGB control and macro programming. You can't save your settings to the cloud, but the keyboard does have onboard memory which allows for up to 6 custom profiles so that's not really an issue if you ask me. Unfortunately, the software only has support for WIndows - it's not compatible with Linux and macOS. Thankfully though, Ducky's software is not required to customise the lighting or to program macros, it just makes these things easier. Speaking of RGB, the lighting on the Shine 7 and all of Ducky's current RGB keyboards in fact is absolutely gorgeous. And while I don't have my LEDs set to rainbow puke but just plain ole white, I was surprised to see that white is actually white, and not some bluish/purpleish tint. One sort of minor complaint, and I'm not sure whether this is just an odd quirk with my particular unit or if this is present on all of them, but some keycaps make the LEDs underneath look quite shadowy/cloudy. It's not too big of a deal, especially since it's not very apparent unless you closely inspect those specific keycaps, but considering the price of this keyboard, I think it's fair to note down even the little things. I think it's most visible on this Ducky logo keycap: Here's a cookie if you made it to the end of the review. In short, if you're a fan of Cherry MX switches and are looking for a premium full-sized keyboard that doesn't scream "G A M E R", the Ducky Shine 7 is a very solid choice that you should definitely shortlist. It does have a couple quirks which hopefully will be ironed out in future versions, but still they're not major in the slightest and don't take away from the fact that Ducky has done a great job with this keyboard. 8 out of 10. The good: premium build quality and look great to type on customisable RGB and macros the extra included keycaps are a nice touch The bad: nothing The mediocre: cheap but fortunately replaceable cable software could definitely use some work some keycaps not allowing the LEDs underneath to Shine through properly (see what I did there?) I'll surely be using the Shine 7 for some time to come, but those small 60/65% keyboards, like the new Huntsman Mini or Ducky One 2 Mini/SF look damn good. I'm definitely going to keep my eyes on them, for whenever I do end up upgrading. Any feedback or questions are welcome. Thanks for reading! Full-size gallery: https://imgur.com/a/95J8XIn (well not really full-size but still better than the ones in the post here)