My work keyboard is slim and quiet, 45 wpm.

Replaced it with my clickity clackety keyboard, 70 wpm and made the hipsters move away from me.

#Winning

hah... gonna do the same!

Hipsters? AWAY? From a mech keyboard? Real hipsters would come to you like flies to a turd.

@Gauthier I use Windows, it's a mild hipster repellent at best.

But next thing you'll be hit on the back of the head with a projectile from 3 offices away because they'll still be able to hear it!!

Approaching hipsters with a running beard trimmer and a wild stare will also send them scrambling for the nearest safe space.

You have only one speed...

Go.

@deusprogrammer Not quite, I strongly prefer the layout of this certain mechanical keyboard model.

@Wallpaper are you fishing? ;) Kinesis Advantage? Something custom built? What is it?

Average 108 WPM with a scissor keyboard here :)

@Gauthier I guess the comfort of key depth, sound, and key size...and I don't feel like I'll break it with hard typing (rage coding?). The other keyboard had none of this, and the keys were flat and not contoured.

What "certain layout of this model" are you talking about?

@Gauthier Old school layout, instead of the new wave of small enter keys, primarily. Guess it also helps I used this model for 10 years lol

@Wallpaper ah, I thought layout was the placement itself (qwerty, Dvorak, etc), not the size. Most people (except on laptop) use a full size keyboard with standard key size, don't they??

@Gauthier That's true, but each full size keyboard will differ from the next, and the one I was provided for work was a major change in size, key travel, and layout.

@Wallpaper you require ANSI or ISO, in other words. Nothing wrong with that, you should be able to get that from work! Maybe even require mech switches, if you ask me.
As for me, I don't bother, I just bring my Kinesis Advantage with me. No question asked when I leave. And I'd rather have that old horse of mine than a new one, with switches that don't need beating in.

@Gauthier My work probably switched to the ones I hate because the salesperson used synergy and cloud every other sentence 😄

@Wallpaper ah, is it that rotated navigation cluster by Microsoft? With home, end, pgup, pgdn ? Looks like a pain to relearn, even if that layout does make more sense.

@Gauthier Precisely, and an odd Enter key.

How does wps affect your choosing in any way? Typing the code is the least amount of time I spent while working..
Unless you are some special book writing dev.

@PRein sure, but if you have to stop thinking while typing because you need your brain for... Typing instead of thinking...

Being fast means less interruptions in your thinking, if any.