Ducky One 2 RGB LED Double Shot PBT Mechanical Keyboard

It's so quiet, that even my laptop keyboard is louder than this keyboard. If that's what you are looking for, get it.

This was the best keyboard out of five from different manufacturers that I tested using the same switches. I rated them on feel, sound, and typing speed. As reported elsewhere, Ducky keyboards feel excellent to type on. It showed in my WPM, which was 5 WPM higher than the average of the other keyboards. It was also very quiet and has a very satisfying sound. The keyboard isn't perfect. The clarity of a few of the key printings should be better. The num/caps lights in the corner are brighter than you'll find on any keyboard, which for a dark room is probably a negative for most users. To end on a positive note, this shipped with a braided cable, which appears to be an upgrade in response to all the video reviews complaining that Ducky sends cheap plastic cables. My particular keyboard came with a few optional white keycaps and an optional year of the rabbit spacebar.

Bought this keyboard last week and it arrived very quickly. Thanks mechanicalkeyboards.com! The keyboard itself is awesome. I had a Ducky Shine 3 (Cherry MX brown) for the past 8 years that's served me well but I wanted to try something different and I mostly use the keyboard for gaming so I went with the Cherry MX Red switches on this Ducky One2 RGB. Going from brown to red switches is a big change and I'm still getting used to it. It doesn't quite have the same feeling for typing, but for playing any game while you hold buttons down (WASD/shift, ctrl, etc.) the reds do feel smoother and more responsive during gaming sessions. Double-tapping seems quicker and I'm not distracted by the little bump in the key. I was still able to hit well over 100 words per minute while typing on the cherry mx red switches, so it's still good for typing. The Keyboard itself has great backlighting, the different modes are great. The PBT Keycaps are top notch and I like them a lot (I can't buy any keyboard with ABS Keycaps anymore after having the PBT Keycaps - the quality is seriously noticeable). The instructions for the keyboard were unclear to me at first, but once I figured out you have to hit FN (F6/7/8) multiple times to increase the brightness it made more sense as each one of the RGB colors has up to 10 levels of brightness and it changes colors based on which ones you hit and in which order. I also tried putting Blue O-rings (Blue 40A-R WASD from Amazon ~$15), and tried it for a few days. I just wasn't getting the same feeling as without them so I took them off. I'm sure I could have gotten used to them. For the Cherry MX Browns I do recommend the O-rings, but for the Cherry MX Reds I just didn't like it that much. The keyboard also came with some extra bright yellow PBT keycaps for the arrow keys, backspace, escape, capslock, return key and a few others. Overall the Ducky One2 RGB keyboard is great and I'm glad I went with this one after looking at others like the Steelseries APEX pro, and Corsair K100. I had a good experience with my Ducky Shine 3 (only 2 backlight LEDs have gone out in 8 years of constant use) and this keyboard appears to be top-notch quality as well. If it's in stock and has the switch type you like I would recommend purchasing it!

Overall I really like this keyboard. There is helft to it and feels premium. The keys are a good amount of clicky except for all the longer keys (ie. spacebar, return and delete and ' ' keys). These longer ones are too loud for me. I went and got some o rings on amazon for $7. For the extra loud keys like spacebar, I added 2 o rings to each section. It helped dampened the noise dramatically. After adding the o rings, I like it overall better now. Recommend this keyboard but you should get some o rings though.

Comparing this to the 'Varmilo VA108M Double Rainbow 2' I give this keyboard a 3/5. It's not bad but the keypresses feel worse and it makes a 'ping' instead of a 'clack'. The Varmilo suffers from this problem as well but less so, so I give that one a 4/5. Idk what happened, all my older Duckys didn't ping at all.