Who is this for? HHKB Professional Hybrid Review

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This £260, topre switch keyboard is supposedly built for programmers, hence the “happy hacking keyboard” name, but for the life of me I can’t figure out who this is actually for. Let me explain why, but first if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos like this one every monday wednesday and Friday. 

I should preface this with, most of my complaints with this keyboard stem from personal preference, although the price does seem exorbitant no matter how you look at it. I personally use a Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro L with cherry brown switches, and I love it. 

So, what’s the deal then? Well, let me show you the layout and you’ll see. This is a 60% or so keyboard, meaning even the function keys are missing, hidden under the number keys, but that’s not all that’s missing. The control buttons are inexplicably missing on both sides, leaving a blank space that, as far as I can see, serves no purpose. The left control has been relocated to caps lock, with caps lock being moved to a function option on tab. Backspace is now delete, unless you press fn and delete, then its backspace, and lthe OS key and Alt keys have been swapped. Oh and no arrow keys, those are FN and these 4 keys. 

One saving grace here is that they included a little access panel on the back that hides 6 tiny dip switches. These switches let you change the layout, including making delete backspace by default, swapping the OS and Alt keys (left set only) and a few other tweaks. While it’s nice to have the options here, I’m not sure why I’d prefer this over a software that can save profiles to onboard memory, which would give you unlimited flexibility, instead of 5 options. It also seemed to be pretty buggy, when I tried flicking some of the switches, it took an number of disconnect and reconnects to get it to work, and sometimes only worked after changing a different switch too. And there isn’t much clearance around the switches, so its pretty difficult to actually flick any of them. 

Of course, funky layout keyboards aren’t new, but normally the layout changes serve a purpose. On the XBOWS keyboard I reviewed a while ago, it was in the name of ergonomics, on the Keychron K2, in the name of size, but on this, I can’t say I understand. I’ve read that this keyboard is for people who spend all day in Emacs or a unix terminal, but I asked a friend who is a full time programmer, who uses Emacs quite a lot, and his response was that it seemed a bit pointless. 

Then there is the “switches”. I say that with air quotes because these are Topre switches, rubbed domes with a conical spring underneath. I should add that when taking the keyboard apart to show you these, I had to break the warranty void if removed sticker, which for a “customisable” “hacking” keyboard, seems quite out of character. And also illegal, at least in the USA. In theory, you can switch out these domes or springs to change the typing feel, but as someone who has used a lot of mechanical keyboards, from the OG Cherry MX’s, to it’s clones, and even Romer G switches from Logitech, this feels pretty bad.

It feels like the old rubber dome keyboards I had in school, crossed with the mildly annoying sound of a naff mechanical keyboard – have a listen.

Of course, being a rubber dome, you need to bottom out the key to get it to actuate, something I quite enjoy not needing to do on a mechanical switch, or even the very impressive optical switches found in the Wooting boards. The typing experience on this, even forgetting the layout, just doesn’t feel great to me, and when I gave it to my developer friend, he didn’t like it either. For this much money, I can’t understand why this would be desirable.

I even spoke to a different full time developer, who said he much prefers the keychron K2 he’s got, and really can’t blame him. The K2 is almost identical in size, especially when you factor in the Hybrid’s AA battery placement, like an old Dell laptop with the “extended life battery”, it’s almost a third of the price, uses actual mechanical switches, and even comes with mac and windows keys in the box so you can customise it to your system, plus actually comes with a USB cable – yeah, the Hybrid model doesn’t even have a USB cable in the box for £260, AND the K2 backlit which is great for actually seeing what you are doing, unlike the Hybrid, also has rubber on the bottom of the feet meaning it doesn’t slide around constantly and has full size arrow keys which as a part time developer myself is so much more useful than an awkwardly placed set of arrow keys that you need to hold FN to use. 

Now, like I said, most of this is personal preference. If you like rubber dome keys, want the funky layout, and don’t mind paying £260 for the privilege, then sure, go for it. But that seems like a really small subset of people, and unless I’m missing something, which I’m sure you’ve already let me know in the comments, I just can’t understand who would actually buy this.