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  • Depends, really. But here are some tidbits that might help with your consideration:

    • You can purchase whatever available options as long as they have an MX holes.
    • Most of the puddings are OEM from my short research. As long as the keycaps face look “familiar” to what you currently have, you can safely assume that it’s either OEM or Cherry profile. The main difference AFAIK is that OEM is slightly taller than Cherry.
    • For ANSI, most of them available options are ANSI so this shouldn’t be a problem. ISO sets are pretty rare on premade keycaps set and they usually tells you whether they support ISO or not.
    • Bottom row might be an issue as there are some different size combinations, but as your keyboard uses vanilla TKL configuration; the usual stuff should be fine (all keys on 1.25u except for spacebar, which uses 6.25u).
    • As for the key counts, getting more keys than what you useis probably a thing that you have to live with. Premade sets tend to give you more to lower the cost on their end. You definitely can get a set that matches exactly with what you have, but these are few and far between.
    • Custom bottom row keys on pudding might be hard to find, whether its included on your set or otherwise. I haven’t done more research on this too.

    That said, I think HyperX have a pudding set that might fulfill most of what you want.






  • I might misunderstood some terms here, but I feel like our understanding of what tap-dance is might be different.

    That said, here’s an ilustration of what I got on my Minidox. I also use something similar on my QAZ, although that one got 32 keys instead of 36.

    Edit: actually, I think the latest version got the whole semicolon and Backspace switched. The semicolon button is backspace by default and P + Backspace gives me semicolon. Main reasoning are: rarely use semicolon and fighting the primal urge of pinky finger to backspace is hard (I rotate between sub40s and 40s at least once a week)

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  • Personally, most of my 36 and below boards are programmed such that i’d rely on tap dance less. I’d rather put it in a layer, explode it inside the layer for things like parantheses and brackets, or arrange a combo for things that are frequently used but cannot be assigned into a designated first layer.

    Partially because I already have a layout that works on a bigger 40% boards, but another factor of it is how awkward tapdance have always felt to me.

    As for the kanata thing: can’t say I can comment further as I’ve never used it before.



  • Chances are: they are there on smaller keyboards too. It might not be in the usual spot while also hidden behind a layer but its there.

    This used to be a showstopper back when most of the available keyboards are not fully customizable firmware-wise. With the advent of QMK and VIA(L) on a lot of readily available keyboards, however, you can pretty much put any functionalities anywhere on any layer(s) you see fit.