Brand
QwertyKeys
QwertyKeys runs group buys for custom keyboards at prices well below the usual premium tier, and has done a lot to make gasket-mounted aluminium boards an ordinary purchase rather than an enthusiast one. Kits typically arrive with several plate options included.
| Type | Manufacturer and vendor |
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| Country | China |
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| Also known as | QK |
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| Indexed here | 3 entries |
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What to know
- Makes
- Keyboards, Accessories
- Known for
- Accessibly priced custom kits, often shipping with two or three plates in the box, which is where most of the sound difference comes from.
- Worth knowing
- Still group buys, so the wait is months, and the lower price shows in finishing details rather than in the typing experience.
- Who it suits
- A first custom build, for someone who wants to choose their own switches and keycaps but not spend 500 dollars on the kit.
- Availability
- Group buys mainly
Official site: qwertykeys.com
Related brands
- Owlab · Premium group-buy customs, for comparison
- Mode Designs · The higher end of the same idea
Indexed under QwertyKeys
QwertyKeys
Hot-swap≈ $245
Qwertykeys' large-format board: gasket mounted on a PP plate, with a numpad, a dot matrix display and a touch bar above the numpad for volume. Size is blank deliberately. Divinikey's blurb calls it a 98% layout and its own spec table two inches below calls it 96%, and Mechanical Keyboards gives no layout figure at all, so there is no figure here worth printing. Everything else the two shops list agrees, including the 8000 mAh battery and the 7 degree typing angle.
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QwertyKeys
TKL / 80%
A tenkeyless board on a leaf spring mount, where the plate sits on sprung arms instead of gaskets, which returns faster than a gasket stack does. Plate choice is the real variable here: the FR4 plate is flex cut while the aluminum, POM, PC and carbon fiber plates are not, so one case can be built soft or stiff. Hot-swap is blank because neither listing says the PCB is hot-swap, and switches, keycaps and price are blank because the two shops are selling different things: Divinikey sells a kit with no switches or caps, Mechanical Keyboards a prebuilt with Neo Oats and PBT.
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QwertyKeys
65%Hot-swap≈ $270
A 65% on a PCB gasket mount, which means the gaskets bear on the PCB rather than the plate, so the give you feel comes from the board itself. Both shops list a polypropylene plate, Cherry profile dye-sublimated PBT caps and a tri-mode hot-swap PCB, so switches come out without a soldering iron. Qwertykeys also sells the case, PCB and plate as three separate items, and that route opens up FR4 and aluminum plates plus a 7U bottom row, which the prebuilt does not offer. No release year appears on either listing, so that field is blank.
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Details last checked 2026-09-14.
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