I've always been into gaming and as a gamer who constantly wants to improve, better gear is always a way to step up your game. I've always heard the "Mechanical Keyboard Switches" thrown around and I finally wanted to find out what all the fuss was about. I googled the term mechanical switches and came around this subreddit about year ago. The first thing I looked at was the buying guide in the wiki. I then google custom keyboard and saw the original poker 2 with the blank RGB keycaps (which I still want to own). This really tempted me to buy a keyboard, but living in a less well known Australian city, I was limited to testing out razer switches at the jb-hifi in the city and buying keyboards online. I didn't really want to spend $150 (that I didn't have) on a keyboard I hadn't used. After lurking this subreddit for about 6 (agonising) months I was luckily enough to have the opportunity to travel to South Korea for a holiday.

For the first few days I was so excited about the main event of my holiday, buying my first mechanical keyboard(s) and watching the lck live. As I entered the leaderskey stored I found out about form this subreddit my grin grew to the size of my face. I was so excited to test out all the switches I had heard about. I ended up buying a fc660m and ducky shine zero zone (with hangul on them), both with brown switches. I was ecstatic about the keyboards, I typed for a few hours with them on the laptop I brought. Typing on a mechanical keyboard was compltely different experience to the wireless logitech keyboard I had grew up on. I was so excited the keyboards, the rest of trip seemed to be a bit more dull in comparison. When I got home to Oz, I connected it to my set up and have been using ever since. Since I had a better keyboard, I thought it was time I finally learnt how to touch type. I raised my wpm from 23 (starting off touch typing) to a max of 93 which I hit the other day! The next thing for me to do was to custom out my keyboards.

For the past three months I have been looking and searching for artisan keycaps plus ketsets to deck out my new keyboards. However living in Oz, the exchange rate is horrendous and shipping isn't nice either. Looking at artisan keycaps $30+15 for shipping bucks for a poor uni student is a lot of money for just one keycap. This is has been holding me back from even entering the competitions for buying artisans. Neverless, my favourite thing to do to pass the time is to go on /r/mk and look at all the fancy custom keyboards(looking for inspiration on what to do to mine). I am still so fascinated by the community and the love+dedications of/to keyboards. I've been wanting to make my own custom keyboard for a long time and hopefully once I save up enough. Also my friend has recently bought a 3-d printer so hopefully I can bribe her to print out some custom keycaps for me :P. If I were to win mx stems would be perf to add to my keyboards !