Damnit. Now I’m looking at a 61 key Poker 3 with mx clear switches and hating myself. Ugh.
Is there a kit I should just buy instead?
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Woohoo! Break out the toggle switches and punch cards!
Seriously though, I’m a drummer, and I treat keyboards about the same way. I know exactly where the keys are, and I bang at them with whatever fingers are handy. I’ve got a macbook that I try to treat nicely, but I plug a mechanical keyboard into it when I’m really going to town, because I will break things.
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WHATS WRONG WITH PUNCH CARDS, YA DIP SWITCH!?
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I have nothing but proxy likes
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There are key samplers, such as this one for Cherry switches:
Twenty bucks but maybe you can get a lot of that back reselling it used. I wouldn’t be surprised if your more enthusiast-oriented brick & mortar electronics store keeps one around too.
One thing that @beschizza brought up which is deeply true – most people can leave the numeric keypad aside, yes, but arrow keys is another matter entirely. I suggest, unless you are a hardcore Unix-er, that you stick with models that have some kind of arrow key layout.
I also kind of like PgUp/PgDn, Home/End as well, which is why I am a fan of this layout:
This is some sort of off-brand Chinese atrocity, but it’s definitely mechanical and inexpensive and has backlighting (plus dip switches) – and it’s what I’d recommend for most people experimenting with compressed layouts rather than going whole hog.
I own one, and use it as my accessory keyboard to work on servers and stuff when I need to plug one in.
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I’ve done this a number of times, but still like to old ADB Apple, beige keyboard the most. Currently I’m using DAS keyboards, expensive, but with the money. I require tactile feedback, and key noise to be really happy.
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I’ve been avoiding making me-too posts in this thread, but me too. After years of using whatever was in front of me, last Christmas I asked Santa for a Cherry blue Das Keyboard and I couldn’t be happier with it. I may have the advantage of having already been a butterfingered idiot before I made the change, but it felt like going home.
OMG there are 40% keyboards. Why did I not know about this Planck keyboard before? Who’s been keeping this from me?
I’ve been deep down the rabbit hole on this one, folks. I’ve seen things.
Like: There’s a 35% keyboard a guy scratch built over here: http://imgur.com/a/ytZjs
And this: https://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/diy-35-keyboard-t10319.html
I’ve been digging up how to hard wire keyboards and what diodes to use and it’s all too much but I can’t stop.
deep breath
Ok. I think I’m going to go just a bit at a time. Likely a Pok3r to start (that’s an enormous 60% keyboard, mind you) before I fly completely off the deep end.
God help me.
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Sanity?
I’m not ready to learn how to type again. 
My last attempt:
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the green question mark key activates Clippy?
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Love that! Tho at least partly to the fact that it has a damn color. There’s too much dull-colored stuff everywhere these days. Give me some color! Rather some color clashes than being bored witless.
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