I first saw this keyboard on the internet after my laptop keyboard stopped working and I couldn't get a replacement for at least a month. This meant that I couldn't do work of anything else so I needed a cheap keyboard to get me through. That's why I thought I would by the flexible keyboard, im a bit of a gadget freak and this seemed to be something different that I haven't seen before. By the Way I did not get it for the price shown below, I actually got it for £10, which I thought was quite good.
Boy did it cause me a lot of problems though. I am a very quick typer and write very quickly so the connection that I make with the keys is normally minimal at any given time. For me the flexible keyboard needed a very hard impact on each key for it to register. It was very frustrating when I was typing because this would mean that it would not register all the letters and lots of spelling mistakes would occur. Either this or I would have to slow myself down which is also very annoying.
I tried everything to improve it, raise it up, put it flat, put something hard underneath the keyboard, putting something soft under they keyboard but nothing would work to improve the typing speed that I was getting with the keyboard without making mistakes.
It was not so much that the keyboard was not working properly because I could go through all the keys one by one and they would all work. It is a good idea to have a flexible keyboard because it saves a lot of problems with spillages. But it just did not seem to cope with the higher speeds of typing that I guess most people would have nowadays. The mistakes that would result probably took up half the time that it took me to type so looking back on it, it would have been quicker to write my work up using paper and pen!!
Overall I was very disappointed and when my new keyboard arrived I fitted it straight away. I still have the flexible keyboard in my draw for emergencies but I think that I will eventually buy a proper static keyboard if I need one.
Good For:
Slower typers - novices, children who spill things regularly, children who are learning to type properly (i.e not looking at the keyboard) etc Emergency situations - when your proper keyboard stops working and you have some work to do.
Rating out of 10: 5/10 - was a good idea but probably could have been created better and of course did not cope with the strain I put on it.
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