If you're contemplating buying your first mechanical keyboard, and aren't quite sure which size or layout will work best for you, this guide should help you cut through some of the confusion.

The QWERTY keyboard layout is commonly found on computers in the United States. It was first created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer. You know you ...

After the success of gesture-based keyboards such as Swype (and if you’re really keeping track, ShapeWriter before it), the next obvious disruption to keyboard technology is optimisation of the ...

Nearly all of our recommendations also come in other layouts, which we’ve linked where possible. Given a primary reason for buying a mechanical keyboard is how it feels and sounds to type on ...

The most immediately visible aspect of any keyboard is its layout, which describes how many keys the keyboard has and how those keys are organized. When deciding what layout you want, you’ll ...