Perixx PERIBOARD-213C Wired Silent USB-C Scissor Keyboard - 14.45x4.76x0.71 Inches Compact Design with Number Pad - Black - US English

It’s OK. Better than many I’ve tried, just a bit noisy for me.

I love that this fits on my shorter keyboard tray with my mouse. My only concern is that the page up/down / home buttons are now 2 buttons and require my left hand hitting the Function button. I found I use these keys a lot and it’s a bit annoying. Would be nice if that extra button was not needed or more accessible.

Update July 14, 2021...I just found out the hard way this keyboard is not even a little bit splash proof. It got killed by a single drip of coffee. There's no way to clean it, so it's garbage. It's a shame, too, because I really liked typing on this one.=====For many years the "gold standard" for typing was the IBM Selectric keyboard. Whoever designed that keyboard deserves a medal. Since then there has been just about every attempt you can imagine to create something equivalent.This keyboard gets close.The Good...I'm not fond of wasting desktop space. This keyboard is about 3/4 the width and the same depth as a regular "slimline" keyboard so the table top saving is pretty obvious. The frame is compact too, with no unused area or needless palm rests or fancy curved edges.The key spacing is "full size" so adapting from other keyboards to this one takes only a few seconds. Almost from the beginning, I have been typing on this keyboard without looking at it.The typing feel is much like a high quality laptop keyboard in that the keys start off just a tiny bit stiff then as you increase pressure they collapse easily making sure that characters are reliably registered as you type.The chicklet style keytops are a good size. Any smaller and I would be getting corner hits, any bigger and there wold be no sense of the space between them so mistyping could be a problem. I haven't tried my typing tests with this board but so far it is fairly obvious I am making fewer mistakes with it than with the older board it's replacing.I'm also not fond of unnecessary hand or arm motion while typing. It slows me down considerably and it can result in repetitive motion problems. This keyboard effectively minimizes that by eliminating the largely vacant space between the main keyboard and calculator pad. They did the right thing and tossed all those middle keys out, since they're duplicates anyway, and moved the number pad to the left. The result is a keyboard that doesn't require a long move to type in some numbers. For right handed people this can also position your mouse closer to your typing position, making that easier too.Of course the calculator pad has the usual Num-Lock function which when off converts it into a cursor management pad. It takes only 1 extra keystroke to flip back and forth. In fact, coming from typewriter days I usually have the Num-Lock off, and use the numbers on the top typewriter row instead. This gives me very convenient access to the cursor functions.They obviously put some thought into the housing as well. Many keyboards have a frame section in front of the space bar that gets right in the way, causing me to typelikethis for no good reason at all. This keyboard has a rolled away frame that I've yet to hit while typing.The FN+ charms are all laid out nicely along the function key row and to their credit, no so dull that you can't see them in a less than brightly lit room. You can even flip the function keys over to their charms full time by pressing FN+ESC so you can treat them as single keys rather than needing the FN shift key. The little lock light on the top right will glow when you do. To set them back to normal function key operation just hit FN+ESC again.The (not so) Bad...They're still duplicating keys for no good reason. The right side calculator pad has all the cursor and page functions on it, there is no need to duplicate them under the right shift key. I would rather they move the Alt and Ctrl keys over a bit and give me a bigger space bar.Although it's not much of an issue, the keytops end up level with the top of the keyboard's deck when pressed. If you have long fingernails you are likely to end up repeatedly hitting the deck as you type.On the right side of the calculator pad they replaced the large + key with a Backspace and a smaller + key. This is very non-standard and I look forward to making that mistake a whole bunch of times until I get used to it.Like many keyboards these days there is a DEL key right above the larger Backspace key. For typing this isn't a serious thing but when navigating Windows Explorer with the keyboard hitting DEL instead of Backspace is the difference between moving back one folder and serious problems with data loss. There is a DEL key on the calculator pad... no need to duplicate it and especially not in a potentially dangerous position.Sooooo...Overall I like this keyboard. It's great to type on, requiring only minimal adjustment. It is a well thought out design and the issues I pointed out can all be very easily avoided with just a bit of caution.Not recommended because of the moisture problem....

My HP Leap Motion keyboard broke after using it for 6 years, so I'm really used to having a low-profile compact keyboard for both office and gaming. A month ago I decided to try PERIBOARD-317R because it looked quite flat... but yeah ignored the actual product dimensions, the keyboard was too high and my left wrist got painful (and I'm not a wrist pad user). I don't know why I didn't see PERIBOARD-213U at that time, but right after my wrist started getting painful I looked up for another keyboard, and hey! another keyboard from the same brand, and looked almost exactly like my old HP keyboard! Even the dimensions are quite similar! I don't mind that is refurbished or not mechanical or whatever, no more wrist pain for me :D-Compared to HP, the keys are a little bit taller and harder to press down, while HP feels more like touching than pressing-its also noisier, but I live by myself so noise doesn't really matter-have to get used to the new layout, function keys like home, page up/down, screenshot are on some weird places, and have to use powertoys to change key inputs so that I don't need to press Fn+up/down to flip pages when I'm using a Chinese input tool...Overall this is a perfect keyboard for me, I guess I'll keep 317R as a backup instead of returning it.

I needed a cheap, white quiet keyboard for my computer and this is perfect! Compact but still has the number keys on the side and isn’t loud at all! Great for the price

This is a great little keyboard. Just plugs into your computer with a USB and it works right away. This is a low profile style with short keys, perfect for a lot of typing. The keys feel smooth but not slippery. It's not the quietest keyboard I've ever had but it's not the loudest either. All the functions work well. I like the basic style and am happy that they make this in white as it's easier to see the buttons for me. Good basic keyboard.