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They work in the academic sense...just don't expect to do 100 wpm on them.
OK this review is actually based on the purchase of ten of these that I shipped to students for a remote class thing. This is both based on my own personal feedback and their aggregated feedback:
Out of ten of them, the number row was nearly non-functional on two of them, and sticky/hard to use on two more of them. I'm not sure if a different type of button was used there or what but it is weird that that particular area of the board very consistently had a problem. The other keys generally worked...just in their own special way that I don't particularly like, however I recognize that people like different keyboards. However out of the ten high school students who were using them, they all, except for one, said they did not like using these things...several going so far as to say they hated them.
If you are a fast typer or a touch typer, this keyboard will be like trying to sprint through a pit of mud...it will slow you down unbelievably. The number of false-hits is really high. In the case of a hard plastic key, pushing at the edge or off center is almost always sufficient to bring the whole key down...in the case of these things because the keys are bendy material, off-center hits or not pushing hard enough will often not succeed. You really got to have a head-on collision with these keys. Reminds me of old typewriters.
The right shift is too small for my taste when I was using one...kept pushing the up arrow or then kept overcompensating after a while and pushing the ? key... I really need a shift key that is two-letter-keys in width to be happy.
So take these thoughts for what it is worth.
Now...if you are a slow typer and/or one finger typer who looks at where your'e pushing, this will probably be a fine keyboard. Also after getting these all back from the students I actually decided to dunk one of them in a full sink and see if it still worked. And it did! So they are waterproof, and they do roll-up which everyone has a knee-jerk "wow that's cool reaction to"
August 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase