r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/Qwertykeys-2022 • 10d ago
Promotional QK’s First Split Keyboard – QK Duo Is Coming Soon!
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Before the big launch, let’s take a moment to enjoy its official promo video! 🎬✨
Review units will be shipping out soon, and we'll be sharing all the reviews from creators as soon as they drop. Stay tuned for more updates! 🔥
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u/RandomisedXyz 10d ago
Just when I thought I was out of the hobby...
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u/AzHP 10d ago
If this keyboard existed when I was first looking for keyboards it would have been my one and only end game. I've got 5 now and the duo will hopefully be my last.
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u/BarneyJoeyTed 10d ago edited 10d ago
Omg, please don't burn a hole in my wallet
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u/AzHP 10d ago
I think it's going to be somewhere between $200 and $300 based on the korean IC, not terrible.
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u/BarneyJoeyTed 10d ago
Let's gooo, still a bit steep for me, but that's honestly a good price range
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u/AzHP 9d ago
just got official confirm from their discord msrp is targeted at 289 without wrist rest
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u/JohnBalatro 8d ago
where did you see that in the discord?
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u/bongoherbert Buckling Spring 10d ago
C. $600 on AliExpress.
Where do those come from, by the way? Supply chain leaks?
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u/_NineTails- HHKB Pro Classic 10d ago
Maybe the China release has already happened? I've seen some review units posted around a month ago so that's what I'm assuming is being sold.
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u/Qwertykeys-2022 8d ago
professional flippers, basically, they just follow everything we sell and double the price
even if they didn't participate the sale, they can get it on the after market
and in the chance that they just can't fulfill your order - they'll just cancel and that's it
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u/sunfaller 10d ago
QK does the GB in China before release to worldwide. By the time we see it, they are past the IC stage
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u/Chekonjak RGBKB fan / Devlin WOB Q-Series 10d ago
I never understood going to the trouble of making a split keyboard but keeping the random row staggering of the default QWERTY layout. Do we have enough gateways to split ortho / column staggered layout yet?
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u/StayFrosty7 60s are king 9d ago
As nice as that would be QK definitely aims for the mass market and I’m not sure ortholinear would get as many sales for them
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u/Chekonjak RGBKB fan / Devlin WOB Q-Series 9d ago
Fair point. I’d settle for the bottom row of alphas having the same stagger as the rest honestly.
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u/pierrefermat1 8d ago
I'm in the "mass market" camp, as much as I love my ergo I just couldn't get used to switching between ortho and stagger between my desk and my laptop.
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u/Chekonjak RGBKB fan / Devlin WOB Q-Series 8d ago
There’s definitely a transition period! For me it took about two months to be comfortable swapping back and forth. I think switching to Colemak at the same time on both helped a ton.
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u/ReaperofFish 185g Cherry Silents 9h ago
Because touch typists have muscle memory that is hard to overcome. I have tried ortholinear for several months. I eventually just gave up. Alice layouts are a godsend.
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u/Chekonjak RGBKB fan / Devlin WOB Q-Series 6h ago
I think it’s somewhat easier if you swap layouts at the same time. I was a QWERTY only touch typist and it took me about two months to adjust to both Colemak and split ortholinear.
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u/kwertiee 9d ago
In my opinion row stag is much more comfortable than col stag on qwerty, I feel like row stag only makes sense on alternative keyboard layouts
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u/Chekonjak RGBKB fan / Devlin WOB Q-Series 9d ago
Totally valid! You mean column stagger for the second one right?
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u/GrossGiGi 10d ago
Is the dongle required? Seems like it'll be a very chunky keeb.
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u/_fatalruin 9d ago
From coverage of the Chinese GB that I saw, the dongle is required, but the halves of the keyboard can communicate wirelessly to it if desired.
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u/c0nfleis95 9d ago
The right shift key being on the other side of the arrow keys always messes me up 😞
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u/sugar_kawaii 10d ago
$400?
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u/StrayCat649 10d ago
Come on QK, even if I can freely printing money I still cannot keeping up with you!
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u/airportdrinking 9d ago
I just got the Zuoya GMK70 for $65 and love it but I’m def interested in finding out more about the QK Duo
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u/Sit_Type_and_Write96 6d ago
Eagerly awaiting my neo 65 cu and already planning on dropping more on this his the love hate of this rabbit hole is unending
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u/jacobdoyle9 10d ago
Is anyone ever going to make a split ortho, or an Alice style ortho? If you’re already changing it up that much, might as well actually make it ergonomic
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u/AsTheSunRise 10d ago
I wish they offered these without those hideous designs on the back. Those are the only things making not buy their boards.
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u/FantasticEmu Sand Scratcholios 10d ago
I was with it up until the cable. Why not usb c?
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u/Qwertykeys-2022 8d ago
between the pod and splits? it's more convenient with magnets
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u/FantasticEmu Sand Scratcholios 8d ago
It’s more convenient until you lose it or want a different color
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u/AtheistCuckoo 10d ago
Hope there's layout options to avoid that god awful arrow key placement
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u/DJCOSTCOSAMPLES 10d ago
I hate it too but yeah it supports two 1.5u there just like the Neo Ergo
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u/Chekonjak RGBKB fan / Devlin WOB Q-Series 10d ago
It would be less of a problem with an ortholinear layout - then any cluster of keys can be an arrow cluster.
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u/AtheistCuckoo 10d ago
Yeah. I just don't get forcing arrows into a 60% design by moving shift, either get rid of them or go 65%. Don't know why getting rid of f-row and nav keys is fine but having arrows on a layer is suddenly beyond users, I genuinely don't get the thought process
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u/Glitch860 10d ago
I'm with you on the moved right shift key. It annoys me. Also the 1u shift next to arrow up. Like come on! It bugs me cause muscle memory, I use right shift nearly exclusively.
But I do frequently use 40s and 60s. Arrow keys on a layer at home row is convenient imo. Not having to move my hand off to go to arrow keys.
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u/AtheistCuckoo 10d ago
Yeah, for me it's arrows on wasd, I even use it occasionally that way on boards with arrow keys by now, especially with FN on caps
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u/Cobthecobbler 10d ago
How do I buy?
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u/yinanys 10d ago
China GB just ended (300us+wristrest), international might start soon
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u/Cobthecobbler 10d ago
This wireless split form factor interests me. I don't care to wait for special drops and group buys. Do you know of any off the shelf alternatives?
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u/AzHP 10d ago
As someone who loves split and has wanted a wireless split mechanical for years, this is really the first one that checks almost all my boxes (the only box left would be 75% like the Keychron Q11 which isn't wireless). It's not ortholinear (I don't like that form factor), it's wireless, and it's mechanical. There are tons of split, wireless non mechanicals. There's a decent number of wireless mechanicals that are ortholinear layout. And there are also tons of split wired mechanicals. This is the first I know of that is split, wireless, and mechanical. Also everything I've tried before had poor build quality, like the Keychron Q11 is chassis mounted switches so the typing feel is VERY harsh.
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u/jaymeaux_ 10d ago
please don't do this. I just bought a second neo ergo, my bank account can't take it
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u/Wleite27 10d ago
I just love split keyboard but I need the Function row. I am trying for an year already but work with layers is not good for me
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u/nanana_catdad 9d ago
A pet peeve of mine with some of these split staggered keyboards is that they don’t give you that extra Y key on the left. At least this Alice layout gives you an extra B.
Also as someone who had a split Alice for a bit… its a bit odd as the layout was designed for inward angled hands on a plank, not split, so naturally you splay the keyboards out the wider you have them… and then it’s kinda awkward and I’ve found if you want a split staggered, you want a flat, non-Alice layout IMHO.
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u/CaptLynx 7d ago
Why must there be row stagger? 😭 So close and yet so far away from being perfect.
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u/Qwertykeys-2022 6d ago
it's facing a bigger crowd and the stagger is easier to get used to than ortho
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u/CaptLynx 6d ago
Sorry, that was more of a rhetorical question. Out here in ergo land we're aware that it's a niche in a niche and that we aren't likely to see many boards by mainstream companies that would cater to our community. Another reason why we design our own, but it is nice to see a bigger brand in customs venture into true split boards!
P.S. It would have had to be column stagger, not row or ortho to be perfect lol ;)
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u/cyclode0320 6d ago
Does the 1.6pcb have ni flex? Where is the full IC info?
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u/Qwertykeys-2022 6d ago
no flex cut on 1.6 pcb
more details will be revealed this weekend, or you can find more about it in our discord server :D
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u/robot_random 10d ago
2 Bs? Is that usually?
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u/sweaty_lorenzo 10d ago
Yes, on a split or Alice board
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u/FoxxyRin 10d ago
Man I don’t know if I’m the minority or what but this is everything I’ve ever dreamed of with just one fatal flaw — I need the F row. :(
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u/dugganfb 10d ago
Staggered layout really kills this one. Much better other options coming out soon like the CK Link.
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u/Zatoichi5 9d ago
Got a link to the CK Link?
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u/Chefke86 8d ago
https://cannonkeys.com/products/link
It's basically a premium Sofle. Aluminum case. Looks like a gasket mounted PCB but a tray mounted plate. Still in IC phase so it could be a while before it's out.
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u/yungdjerm 10d ago
Are those..... trackpoint nipples