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The Keyboard Oracle has decided: Lubed Cherry Ergo Clears.

wow, I can't believe I won... thank you guys :) Anyway Deskthority is a great resource and the minimum I can do to thank you is to give the keycaps back to the community. So feel free to draw a new winner! (hope this time it goes to someone with more than 14 posts :) ) The Keyboard Oracle has decid...

fossala wrote:Can you redraw me? I won't use the keycaps so they might as well go to someone who will.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: A new winner has been drawn.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: Speech!

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: Thank you for your patience. As randomly drawn from our voters: The Keyboard Company Filco Prize Winner prdlm2009 WASD Prize Winner bhtooefr Signature Plastics Prize Winners chimborazo (winner 1) i3oilermaker (winner 2) TheQsanity (winner 3) Ascaii Set Prize Winners ...

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: And now, the moment you have all been waiting for... The winners of the Deskthority Awards 2012 Voter Prizes. But first, while we randomize our randomizer, will you please welcome to the stage, the most wonderful and skillful whistling performance... xaPoBhiMkgs Plea...

And now, your special attention for the main Award... The nominees are: 7bit for all his continuous efforts in various things, Cherry for powering most new keyboards, HaaTa for all his amazing archaeology, the ErgoDox project and the Phantom project. And the Wingnut for the Deskthority Award 2012 ,...

The nominees are: The Cherry G80-1800, the Cherry G80-3000, the IBM Model F family, the IBM Model M. And the Award for Best regular keyboard 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/wq8HH.png The famous IBM Model M is nicknamed the King of All Keyboards, and s...

The nominees are: 002, Daniel Beardsmore and Findecanor. And the Wingnut for Best deskthority wiki contributor 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/SUib4.png Daniel impressed everyone with an enormous amount of work . He has been a great force in improving...

The nominees are: 7bit, Ascaii, bpiphany, CeeSA and Soarer. And the Wingnut for Best deskthority forum contributor 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/bErYc.png Last year's winner of the Deskthority Award 2011 continued to be a great member of the communi...

The nominees are: bpiphany's Filco replacement controller, Ceesa's Tipro Trackpoint mod & Cherry G80-1501 SSK, Soarer's converter and Suka's DIY keyboard collection. And the Wingnut for Best input device mod 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/dhKNa.png S...

The nominees are: 7bit productions, Matias, Phantom and Signature Plastics. And the Wingnut for Best keyboard company or brand 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/Cvief.png The Phantom is a PCB with a programmable controller and a mounting plate designed ...

The nominees are: 002 for all his Topre finds, Ascaii's Vintage Cherry MX Black keyboard with blue/white caps, Fossala and the new in box vintage Cherries and HaaTa for all his finds. And the Wingnut for Best relic/discovery 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgu...

The nominees are: Cherry dyesub keycaps, dye-sublimated blue/white Olivetti keys, IBM Model M/F keycaps, Orange on charcoal keycaps from the Skidata keyboard, thick imsto PBT keycaps and vintage double-shot blue/white Cherry keycaps. And the Wingnut for Best keycaps 2012 , as voted for by the member...

The nominees are: The Cherry G80-5000, the Datahand Professional II, the Kinesis Advantage, the ErgoDox project and the µTRON keyboard. And the Wingnut for Best ergonomic input device 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/gt26c.png The ErgoDox is a DIY keyb...

The nominees are: The Cherry G80-1800, the HHKB Pro II family, the IBM Space Saving Keyboard and the Phantom. And the Wingnut for Best space-saving/compact keyboard 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/fQxtZ.png The Phantom is a PCB with a programmable con...

The nominees are: The CST L-TracX, the Razer DeathAdder Black Edition, the Rollermouse family, the whole Wacom line of products and the TrackPoint IV. And the Award for Best other input device 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/hyXaj.png The L-TracX is a...

The nominees are: Cherry MX Blue, Cherry MX "Ergo-Clear", Cherry MX Red, the new Matias switch and Topre. And the Award for Best keyboard switch 2012 , as voted for by the members of deskthority, goes to... http://i.imgur.com/xRu65.png The Cherry Ergo Clear switch is a Cherry MX switch with a slider...

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The Oracle is currently on a spiritual pelgrimage of moral significance to the Tibetan temple of Yag Po Tshor Ba 'Phrul 'Khor. The Oracle will return soon to duties at deskthority. In the meantime, questions in this thread can be freely answered by senior/knowledgab...

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The CM QuickFire Rapid is a good choice.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The redundant Oracle prefers Filco Majestouch over Leopold because of the better feeling big keys.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The KBC Poker has a dip switch to swap the Left Control and Caps Lock locations.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: You are cursed by nonexistent cheap Topre keyboards, the yen, and the ISO tenkeyless requirement combined. Your best hope is an obscure Topre find on Yahoo Auctions Japan. Alternatively, the Cherry MX Red or Brown switch may be of your liking, providing a path to a w...

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The Typenow Solid.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The keyboard for the Siemens Dimension RXL chemical analyser, made by TG3 Electronics.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The Oracle provided the closest match. An alternative compromise is the Poker in dedicated arrow key mode.

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The KMAC Mini keyboard.

Knoughts wrote:Oh might oracle! What tenkeyless-keyboard should one get for under a hundred dollars? (Otakus are fine as well!)

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: The Leopold FC200R.

Dear Oracle, I'm a developer who has typed somewhere between 4.0 - 4.5 million lines of code in my time and still uses an Apple mini keyboard. I think I should be using something better don't you think? I spend a lot of time in Vim and IntelliJ (with the vim plugin). What do you recommend to increa...

andrewjoy wrote:Oh mighty Oracle,

I am looking for a small programmable matrix possibly about 5 x 5. It needs to be mechanical and would be better with cherry MX ( not blue)

The Keyboard Oracle has decided: There is no 5 x 5 Cherry matrix available, the G80-3700 is the obvious alternative.