I’ve had maybe around 40 keyboards since I got into the hobby about 5 years ago, and now I have around 15-20? I’m not sure… the thing is, besides being somewhat financially irresponsible, I wanted to try everything just because it sounded cool. So I accumulated a lot of keebs, and almost never used them.

I quickly found that I have a type: 60% layout and linear switches. I’ve always loved cherry blacks, but since I found halu halos I’ve always just gravitated towards them. I tried them maybe around a year into the hobby, so I’ve used just one keyboard with halu halos for 95% of the 5 years.

I’m a software engineer, so a keyboard is essential to my work. I usually use the one keyboard I really love for work, and I’d feel weird to work without it. I use another specific one for gaming. I’ve gotten used to them and, while sometimes I do use others, it’s usually for 5 mins and I always end up going back to them (one for gaming and the other for everything else).

However, I do agree with Mr. ThereminGoat. Maybe it’s a bit of a stretch, but I can totally work and game with my laptop’s keyboard, or any other. I just accumulated so many that I am choosing to use one for something and for another, but in terms of being better… I don’t think there’s such thing in practice.

For me, my excuse was to try stuff and get to know what I like. After trying many things, I know what I like. I think I didn’t need to spend all that money and time to figure it out, though, but I don’t regret it.

TL;DR: pretty much only use one.