My Favorite Clickety-Clackety Keyboards

Clickety-clackety keyboards are the best keyboards, but they annoy other people. So you need to be able to swap out something your daskeyboard (with all black keys, no letters on them¹) for an Apple Magic Keyboard (the black version). But what if you want even more clackety…

The Mattias Tactile Pro echoes like the feeling of hacking into a mainframe in 1986 with Matthew Broderick looking over your shoulder, eyes wide, mouth slightly open, rubbing his fingers together, anticipating the very moment when BAM! SYNTHESIZERS!

WE’RE IN!

Sometimes you want to really work out your fingers and make little snapping sounds, with every keypress SNAP, SNAP, like you’re SNAPPING the letters and words together with little snap’n’pop firecrackers you hurl at the page. The Underwood Champion is for you… Champion.

But when you really, really want the clickety-clacketyest keyboard of all, you switch to this one… It’s like firing a machine gun. No one can deny you are WORKING. VERY IMPORTANT WORK. I made a video some years ago about another magical thing it can do (sorry for the dated music):

You have too much self-respect to accept without scrutiny the keyboard that’s issued with your computer. There’s too much clicketyness out there in the universe…

But probably keep your Apple Magic Keyboard (the black version) for calls/not making everyone around you hate you.