Do Mechanical Keyboards Make You Type Faster?

Results from an experiment conducted at UC Berkeley

William Chon
3 min readDec 27, 2020

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Mechanical keyboards look and sound great. Not only that, but they’re a lot more fun to type on as the feedback is more tactile than a normal keyboard. However, mechanical keyboards are expensive, with some of the costliest models ranging from a couple hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars. When

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William Chon

Data scientist and occasional writer. My day job is to turn R into $.