Keyboard for programming

[NeosIII]

Hey, so I currently have a K70 for my PC, while it’s a great keyboard and I don’t plan on giving it up. I have found the keys to be a bit too separated when it comes to trying to write code on it. I was wondering if people hand any recommendations for cheaper smaller keyboards that would be helpful. Preferably the main thing would be having keys that are coming closer together. I have far less issues when programming on my laptops keyboard compared to my k70 on my PC. I’d be open to looking at all suggestions.

[seon123]

How small? 40% is the smallest relatively common form factor. If you find the numpad to be too far away, you could look for a 96 key or 1800 layout. Then there's a whole bunch in between, not only TKL.

 

Edit: And what's your budget?

Edited May 31, 2020 by seon123
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[NeosIII]

So with size I’m mainly more concerned about the distance between keys. Ultimately I’m not that concerned about having a number pad. The majority of my time spent coding for the past 4 years has been on a laptop without a number pad. The issue I’m running into is I’m finding the wrong keys while coding, so I’m hitting one next to the one I wanted, and I’m fairly certain it’s because of the distance between the keys on the K70. Hopefully that explains better. Also smaller overall size wouldn’t be bad in general as long as it has a traditional key layout, since I’d be using this keyboard more as a secondary keyboard.

[NeosIII]

6 minutes ago, seon123 said:

How small? 40% is the smallest relatively common form factor. If you find the numpad to be too far away, you could look for a 96 key or 1800 layout. Then there's a whole bunch in between, not only TKL.

 

Edit: And what's your budget?

Preferably somewhere between 30-60 dollars. Also I tried to respond to this comment earlier and I might have screwed it up so the answer to the first part of it was posted as a regular comment. Not looking for anything fancy, just something that’s decent to type on, and possibly a simple backlight so it can be usable in the dark.

[igormp]

18 minutes ago, NeosIII said:

Hey, so I currently have a K70 for my PC, while it’s a great keyboard and I don’t plan on giving it up. I have found the keys to be a bit too separated when it comes to trying to write code on it. I was wondering if people hand any recommendations for cheaper smaller keyboards that would be helpful. Preferably the main thing would be having keys that are coming closer together. I have far less issues when programming on my laptops keyboard compared to my k70 on my PC. I’d be open to looking at all suggestions.

I have a cheap dell kb similar to this one. It's quiet and comfortable, I can go for over 8 hours programming on it sometimes without any problems. Only downside is that it lacks a backlight.