Just broke my third Ducky Keyboard. Two of them died to a few drops of liquid, The third fell on wooden floor from a height of about 1m. While my cheap-o mechanical keyboard has bathed in coffee, been yanked off my desk multiple times by its cable getting pulled by my chairs armrest and survived without any damage.
Can’t say I have noticed any issues with either of my duckies in 2 or so years I have been using them, but I also didn’t drop them or spilled anything on them.
Highly recommend keeping your drinks away from your keyboard. In my experience any spill will instakill a ducky keyboard.
The first few ducky’s I had were great (shine series), though I never dropped them from any height. The Ducky Legend series I had was terrible and died after a power outage at work. I think the board shorted or something, I never managed to revive it. The WASD Code keyboard I replaced them with was also great and took some abuse. I eventually switched to using split keyboard kits that probably couldn’t take that much physical abuse like drops, but have survived a water spill or two.
I have a Ducky One 2 RGB full-size, 2 months into the 2 year-old mark and I’ve had a few issues with it. I live in a humid place and one day it just stopped working. I had it a couple of days in a cardboard box and miraculously started working again. Sometimes it loses its memory and I lose my RGB and macros settings. Sometimes it rapidly turns off and back on. Some keycaps are starting to peel. I like mechanical keyboards but this was my first foray into a “proper” mechanical keyboard after trying a Logitech G413 Carbon with disastrous results (space bar registering twice or thrice in a single press!), but I don’t really know any good mechanical keyboards brands that don’t cost an arm and a leg (I’m open to recommendations).
Currently using this one:
I’m happy with it. The knockoff blue switches are better than Cherry blues IMO (much quieter, remind me more of MX browns), the keycaps are only double-shot ABS, though.
I haven’t bought any new ones in the past 3 years. But I’ve abused quite a few and never had issues. High drops, spills etc. Could it be the model? (Not that it makes it any better)
Models were:
- 2x Skyline TKL
- One 2
They’re definately made to a certain price. I never had durability issues but I found the keycaps to be rough or uneven on the edges.
Im still on my ducky legend and only recently thinking of retiring it.
