I almost immediately noticed how extraordinary the typing experience is on this keyboard. Now, I’ll freely admit that I’m not a keyboard geek (I don’t have drawers full of custom made, 200 dollar keycapped boards like some enthusiasts out there) but I have used a lot of keyboards over the years with a variety of switch types and I have to say that the One 2 Mini offers one of the nicest typing experiences I’ve had so far.

There’s no outrageous key wobbling; every key press feels as smooth as the others and there’s no rattling or other distracting noises. The same goes for the larger keys such as spacebar and enter; they all felt really smooth and sounded great out of the box. The spacebar sounded a bit ‘bigger’ than the others, but not in a distracting manner. This really is that kind of keyboard that you slide on over to that friend you’re trying to convince to go mechanical. For reference: the board I tested has Cherry MX Reds and the stabilizers on the One 2 Mini are standard Cherry stabilizers.

As for the sound: feel free to judge for yourself in the clip to your right. It’s not an audiophile sound test or anything like that but the clip should provide an estimation on how this keyboard sounds while typing regular sentences.

The keyboard itself performs exactly like you’d expect it to after reading the specs. I used it to play Overwatch, Battlefield V, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and a variety of smaller indie games and it all went down how it should go down. The One 2 Mini is responsive, consistent, and super reliable. It’s not going to work for people who prefer to game with the arrow keys (since it doesn’t have any) or people who like to have a ton of extra keys at their disposal, but for everything else you really can’t go wrong with this keyboard.

I also did a variety of typing tests. That’s not a scientific test by any means, but if you consistently perform way worse on a certain keyboard than you would normally then that’s an indication that something’s wrong. That wasn’t the case here. I very quickly got to my regular typing speed, so full marks for that one.

Little touches make it so that the smaller form factor is pretty easy to get used to in case this is your first 60% keyboard. There’s no caps lock indicator, for example, so the caps lock button lights up in plain white when you have it activated. The alternate functions for the regular keys are clearly indicated on the bottom of the keys (though they’re not transparent so they’re difficult to see in the dark or with no backlight on), everything is very clearly explained in the manual, …

You can just tell that the people over at Ducky put a lot of thought into this keyboard, and that was evident all throughout my experience with this keyboard. The only real downside is the lack of a USB passthrough port, but I guess that’s a compromise that you have to make with a 60% board.