It's fantastic to type on but the delete key fiasco (there isn't a good place for one) makes me wish I hadn't bought the ISO version... either I'll buy another Q9 with ANSI or a Q2 which just looks a whole lot more normal and less weird to deal with. Love the sound and heaviness of this thing.

I think the ISO version is a disaster because they don't have an obvious place for the delete key!

I've always used ANSI keyboards. I ended up with this ISO oddity because it was the only one I could find in blue, with a knob. (then the next day I found the USA layout exactly like I wanted...Keychron themselves have it.

Anyway the weird keys (+ and @) are there because I use them more than the squiggly tilde/ grave accent and the backslash that was next to the Enter key.

Yep they included hundreds of key variants but forgot to make a spacebar without the cute winter landscape. I'm not the most adventurous shopper... I got them here: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B0BNBWS24W?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Strangely they don't have a name but here's where I found them. They were sent to me from UK so took a few days.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B09NVHM6FN?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Tragically they don't have a name. I found them on Amazon Germany under the catchy heading "UK Keycaps 172 Keys Double Shot SA Profile Layout 6.25u/7 uISO/ANSI Layout Suitable for Mechanical Keyboard Keycap GH60 GK64 RK61". The cardboard box they come in is labelled "UK 172 Dark Blue Brown Keycaps". They are nice, though! It appears they shipped from Wales.

The square brackets are now normal round brackets ( ). That blue cursor key is backspace. BT is there because i don't have an FN2 key... all in all, it's a pain in the ass and great if you want to annihilate your own productivity!

As for the RK, I'd like it a whole lot better if it had cursor keys! Good cheap keyboard, though.

Yes the weird position of the return key is really getting on my tits. Also, I keep hitting the non-existant delete key above it... this is gonna take some getting used to!

Actually I just love being able to control volume that way. Especially on this, it's a lot easier than the two key combination to mute (or increase volume etc)

But if you are used to ANSI just buy the ANSI version! I noticed too late you can get blue/knb/ansi from Keychron online. I ordered from a shop that only had the Blue/knob variety in ISO.

Yes without cursor keys I go bananas. That's just too much masochism as far as I am concerned! Though having to press three buttons to get a "!" is err... fairly nuts, I have to say. Maybe I'll make that the mystery button between shift and Z.

Sure I'll do it later today. I was also amazed I couldn't find any pics of this online. I'm not usually this adventurous.

Yeah it's quite nice being able to make a dream keyboard - but in my case I am very used to the regular layout so it's a bit of a struggle at the moment!

Thump to mute in case porn starts playing too loud

Yes I have just noticed how often I use "-" ! (So I put it under the + key which I used to fill the gap.)

I've also set the square bracket keys to produce round brackets which I use often. So far I have never once needed square brackets!

Oh these ISO keyboards are a doorway into a world of pain! Now I remember why I stuck to ANSI and nothing but ANSI all these years!

Yeah I should have fired up the software earlier... it's really nice being able to have any key do whatever the heck you want it to do (a totally new experience for me!)

I put a + sign in there.... I use + a lot more often than the French grave accent which I think is supposed to be there!

Haha! I wish I could say! I found them on the German branch of Jeff Bezos's megashop. They're called "UK Keycaps 172 Keys Double Shot SA Profile Layout 6.25u/7u ISO/ANSI Layout Suitable for Mechanical Keyboard Keycap GH60 GK64 RK61"

I thought the packaging itself would give me a sexier name, but they arrived in a brown carton labelled "UK 174 Dark Blue Brown Keycaps." So I guess that's what they're called!

seems I can set it to anything I like with the software... so maybe I'll make it do something daft like turn off the backlight...

I plugged it in and at the moment it's mapped as squiggly Spanish thing and a grave(?) accent. I have a key like that but it's from the top row and a completely different shape! Since I don't need that key at all I will figure out something to put there instead and try to map it with the software which I haven't even looked at yet.

I made the mistake of buying an ISO layout Q9 barebones. I usually use the ANSI layout. I thought I'd just copy the keys from a product photo of, say, a complete UK Q9, but then I realised Keychron doesn't sell the Q9 ISO in a completed form. I couldn't find a picture anywhere of a completed Q9 with ISO layout.

Luckily my keycaps - which arrived today - have multiple sizes for shift keys etc. Buuuut only the smallest shift key fits here. There are no stabilisers for what I'd call a normal size shift key. This creates a blank spot between shift and Z. I started out with ZXC etc one step to the left.. which moves the problem to the right side, and puts those keys in the wrong place.

Has anyone put one of these things together? Isn't it weird that they don't have stabilisers for the left side shift key? I can't believe they don't provide any diagram or anything to show how it's supposed to look.

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