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actually not gonna be in the same room when we're looking at these keyboards just to ensure that we don't influence each other's opinions at the very end of all this Heather and I are gonna have some scoring cards so we're gonna play scoring cards on each of the keyboards based on how we feel about them from best to worst but we're gonna play them facedown and secretly and then reveal our results at the very end to see if our opinions match up which might be cuz we're married so you know or they might not because we're married so it'll be very interesting to say the least very excited to get this underway so are you ready I'm ready let's bring out in the first keyboard Wow this is the Aki keyboard comes with a key cap remover this is useful looks pretty boring very plain very minimal but that's my style most of the time this kind of looks like a like a USB stick to me it's a little powering a logo that I like how small the body is you know it's mechanical switches so it could be a gaming keyboard but it could also blend in at like a doctor's office the keys are a little bit weird I don't think I like the font that they use for this keyboard it's really weird the font on the keyboard is somewhat gamer II it's a little bit gamer II but it's not too over-the-top quality is also not bad either I mean it's plastic but very little flex quality what features actually what are the features of this keyboard looks like we've got windows lock key some multimedia function keys some hotkeys for email web browser volume up and down no LEDs on this guy which I personally do not mind at all there's definitely not RGB so that's a minus 1 right there 5 foot cable pop out feet with rubber you always get pop out feet you don't always get rubber on the feet though Cherry MX a stem right there so you could replace these key caps with some cherry MX key caps if you wanted to oh look what they have right here though a key cap remover and ours pretty good I believe this keyboard is also spill resistant if I remember correctly from the product page so that's actually nice I think this keyboard also has n key rollover much to say about this one it's pretty boring it like it's just playing and just looks like a very generic keyboard to be honest if I remember correctly there's a 24 month warranty on this keyboard which is twice as long as the other two that definitely instilled some confidence in in this product compared to the other two I will say that you know what this actually feels pretty good I like how it's very like short quick travel not long and obnoxious sound like doing anything for me it's not bad it's not good this is uh you know for under 30 bucks I mean bad alright hc' man or Hickman I'll just call it Hickman cuz that sounds easier to say comes with a key cap remover as well we've got a two-tone thing going on here silver body looks like aluminum alloy maybe the black on the silver I'm just not a fan it looks nice it looks nicer in person than it does in photos I will say that that XY is zero points is this the same font it looks like the exact same font like the keycap font is exactly the same as the Yaqui again what is with these fonts well arrow keys on this side are kind of weird-looking a little bit more flex than the Aki definitely a bit more flex also a bit lighter too she mentioned from the little research I did do that all these keyboards are not only 10 keyless but they also all feature blue switches however they are not cherry MX they're all their own in-house name-brand or whatever oh the feet are plastic so they kind of I feel like no matter what service they're going to it's gonna be on it's gonna just like slide around type no rubber that's too bad volume up and down mute windows lock key as well your web browser email calculator do we get a braided cable weird how you can see like the screws from this side of the keyboard like you can actually see a tiny screw there then I also don't like how they have like a little screw showing on the front like I feel like keyboards look very seamless and it's kind of like an ice poor site eyesore kind of an eyesore alright RGB LEDs confirmed RGB I'll be honest it's not the highest quality LED treatment I've seen this you know what you you just gain some points here we okay so this this keyboards definitely a lot more blingy it's got it's got the bling factor that the other two do not Cherry MX stems so again you could put key caps on this guy interesting they almost have like a loose feel like they feel like there's almost not quite enough actuation force from my liking I like a little bit of resistance you know I'm saying I'm thirsty I'm not 30 they just kind of go down too easy like a cheap hooker I actually do like the typing the performance on this keyboard you know what's also interesting is that these key caps some of you can tell but they're a little loose they kind of pivot a little bit right makes my fingers feel insecure I don't know if that makes sense but and I feel like the cheaper plastic that's used here makes them a bit more slippery yeah I can't quite put my finger on it Tomoko he kept remover well if it wasn't for the little logo right here I would think that the Aki was just a place right in front of me this looks very similar to the Aki like strikingly similar they must be using the same om we still have pop-out feet did you get a non braided cable just like the Aki so I definitely like the font much more than I do on the other ones it's much easier to read and they don't have like weird symbols the font is is just not gamer e at all it's just like it's like Calibri or aerial or something which hell yeah I'm a huge fan of that this one it definitely looks the best out of all three of them for sure not a huge fan of the branding here just a little T symbol whatever logo looks a little tacky to me I'd rather just say you know nothing at all the Tomoko this one that I'm holding right now is much heavier another two so right there she's got some weight to it quality wise like I can already tell I think this one is gonna be the best hardly any flex here definitely much higher quality here the key caps once again MX stems I believe this keyboard is fill proof as well and key roll over we got windows block key volume up and down mutes and multimedia keys yeah these feel good feel great like it's a little bit more like sticky like it doesn't there's some resistance that's where the how to use there's more like resistance could be a little bit more resistance personal thing I feel like the resistance is about the same for the Aki Anna Tomoko but actually I feel like the Aki has a little bit more resistance and the Tomoko so I think the biggest difference between these two keyboards are the switches themselves these switches don't feel quite as resistant as these ones these have a they feel like they have a higher actuation force you know and there's this one that's I actually do like the typing on this keyboard more than I like these ones I don't know this this is going to be really tough man it's tough it's really close but I think I'm ready I think I know who the real winner is here all right here we are judgment time so the way this is gonna work is that wifey sauce and I have three ranking cards or three scoring cards each one representing our favorite keyboard one representing our second favorite keyboard and the third card representing the keyboard we like least we're gonna be playing these cards on each of these keyboards facedown very secretively we're gonna close our eyes and then chris is gonna flip them over we're gonna do a big reveal and talk about our results or our decision sound good sounds groovy all right so whenever you're ready go ahead and place your cards on the appropriate keyboards so pink is obviously wifey sauce and I am blue so nice clothes I suppose Chris do your work oh don't swap the cards you can feel you can feel you swapping them very opposite yeah surely like opposite holy moley so you thought this one was the worst the akhi yeah I hated this one the most why I thought it was so similar to this one the resistance this one had a little bit more resistance yes which is why I like that one but I don't like it I don't like the resistance where I like them to be easier to touch yeah so for me that's why this is not a scientific video it's entirely subjective that makes sense so I hated this one the most I would never use this keyboard okay that being said I wasn't sure which one I was gonna pick first between the tomoko and HT man because I liked that these keys had the least resistance out of all three keyboard they did have the least resistance but almost to a fault in my opinion because they were so loose like I feel like they could have used more resistance and I felt myself like Miss typing a lot more on these keys because I tend to be more heavy-handed when I type so that's why and the key caps were just too loose for my liking it just felt like this this definitely felt the cheapest out of the three in terms of weight why I gave it second place and like I said acts like this by far is like that ugliest keyboard I agree I have all three but you still chose this one over this one because of the way the keys felt honestly if if this keyboard had these switches then I would have definitely given it first place so really it was this which is that it was a switches it boils down to the switches for me like that's the main thing I'm gonna be doing on a keyboard and these felt the most comfortable for my typing style so I guess everyone's everyone's different yes types well cool I'm glad that we I just sort of agree on something yeah that's that's not the reason why I gave it the spud dud they're encouraging the use of a poor poorly made web browser well that was a lot of fun yes I guess this is all to say if you're gonna pick up one of these keyboards in the near future you should definitely go with the octane oh she does even know you she does even know what 20 she voted for clearly the Aki is the best one no forget that Tomoko tomato keyboard sound like you're some like text review are only two verses key kept grenades all right on that note guys thank you very much for tuning in let us know what you thought of potato package you'd like to see you bring this back okay we're gonna have to pick these you're gonna have to pick these up at some point all right very good let's end the damn video have a good one guys subscribe to the channel and all that we will see you all in the next video