What is the best type of keycaps?

20 Best Keycaps: A Complete Buyer’s Guide

HK Gaming Dye Sublimation Keycaps.
New Arrial XDA Lotus Keycaps.
YMDK White Gray Black Keycaps.
YMDK Doubleshot Rainbow Keycaps.
YMDK Gray Beige YMD96 Keycaps.
YMDK Carbon 108 Cherry Keycaps.
YMDK DSA Retro Keycaps.
Blank White Thick PBT Keycaps.

Where can I buy good quality keycaps?

Amazon.com First up is Amazon, which I’m sure everybody is aware of. Amazon typically only sells the cheaper keycap sets such as YMDK, but you can definitely find some higher keycaps as well if you’re willing to look a little further. GMK Samurai is available through Amazon, which is quite popular.

How do I stop my GMK keycaps from shining?

The simple solution is to buy more GMK sets, so you can rotate them regularly and stave off the inevitable. All caps will shine, weather it’s ABS or PBT.

How do you clean your GMK keycaps?

Get a wash cloth and clean each keycap by hand in the soapy water, and place them in a strainer inside the water. Do not let them dry with the soap on them. When finished washing, rinse the caps off in the strainer. Dry on a towel.

How do GMK keycaps feel?

GMK keycaps are so expensive because they are extremely high quality. GMK keycaps are kinda textured and are not like OEMs which are made cheaply, do not feel good and end up feeling worse than the prebuilt already is.

Why are key caps so expensive?

Custom Keycaps Come From a Limited Number of Manufacturers These small batches remove the economy of scale present in almost all retail products. This drives the price up, since the sets need to be designed and made on custom equipment.

What does Keycap shine look like?

Shine doesn’t change colour. It’s just a polished look on quality caps like doubleshots. Cheaper caps can have their legends wear off completely because of it though.

How long does it take for GMK keycaps to shine?

There are a lot of factors that go into a keyset shining, but it could be anywhere from ~1 month to a couple months of use.

Why do keycaps get shiny?

Keycaps become shiny after heavy use with oily fingers. For a change, wearing gloves and washing hands before typing could help. Or better, touch type and never look at keyboard while typing, you will be less concerned about shiny keycaps.

Do ABS keycaps get shiny?

But there’s one particular quality that most ABS keycaps share: they wear down and get shiny very, very quickly. If you’re a heavy typist, you’ve probably noticed this phenomenon before, and it can make your keyboard look pretty gross.

Are PBT caps worth it?

Thicker PBT Keycaps can change the sound of a keyboard because of the thicker material it is composed of. I can confirm pbt is awesome and definitely worth it. The feel is nicer and the sound is a little nicer too. I’m even thinking of getting some thick ones but they are quite pricey.

How do you tell if keycaps are PBT?

Also under magnification, laser printing literally melts the top-most layer of plastic and will change the surface texture. Put a drop of acetone on something like a toothpick and swirl it on the underside of a key cap. If it etches the surface, it is ABS. If the surface is impervious, it is PBT.