When OnePlus announced it was introducing a keyboard earlier this year, I was very excited — more so than usual. You see, I just started delving into the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole, and realized early on that there's a lot more to the category than I initially imagined. While I used mechanical keyboards for the better part of a decade, they were largely limited to gaming-focused options like the Corsair K95, Corsair K100, and so on.
So when I got started with my first DIY keyboard — a Glorious GMMK Pro — it was a revelation. The gasket-mounted design delivered much better feedback and bounciness, and there was a whole world of enthusiast switches and keycaps waiting to be explored. A year on and a dozen keyboards and several dozen switches later, it feels like I finally know my way around the category.
