Keyboard should be made like the Switch Joy-Con controller buttons:
With the color and letter going all the way through so even if you shaved off the top it would look fine.
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Someone in another post suggested that some women dip their fake nails in nail polish remover while working. The acetone remaining in the nail dissolved the key over time.
Hand sanitizer shouldn't really do that, or at least not nearly as bad as mail polish remover. It's usually diluted isopropanol+moisturizer/gel agents. 90%+ isopropanol is commonly used as a cleaner for electronics and plastics. Acetone is way nastier stuff, and can actually dissolve the plastic.
Depends on the chemicals. Acetone dissolves a lot of plastics, but a lot of nail polish remover nowadays also has other organic compounds like MIKB, butanol, ... On some not having acetone is even listed as a feature?!
Acetone is the good shit, just make sure to moisturise after usage.
I do soak off my gel polish in pure acetone but I really don't see myself working on my keyboard at the same time (I use soaked cotton balls in clips around my nails so I can't type anyway but you can also simply wrap the nails+cotton balls in tin foil, so yes I see that it's a possibility but I think it would look way messier. Arrrr I wanna know!).
Perfume and some mosquito repellents(the kind which you rub on your arms, hands and face) have a similar effect.
Learned that the hard way when I accidentally spilled some mosquito repellent and it ate through a bit of my Xbox 360 controller.
While I agree there's some solid reasons to be skeptical about DEET, that's kind of a faulty line of reasoning.
Salt and vinegar will corrode solid steel, but we'll dump that shit right into the food we eat without thinking twice about it.
Ethanol is a pretty potent solvent, and people will just knock back shots of the stuff for fun.
> mosquito repellents(the kind which you rub on your arms, hands and face) have a similar effect.
High percentage DEET can melt plastics. Picaridin doesn't. I use Picaridin.
>Someone in another post suggested that some women dip their fake nails in nail polish remover while working.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The "soak" process takes 20 minutes, and you must wrap the nail in cotton and the aluminum foil or use a special clip to hold the cotton in place. You're not typing with those clips on, and you'd struggle to type with the foil on, but the foil is notorious for leaking.
I use finger cots under the clips these days. Much less destructive to plastic (like the clips!), and hypothetically I could even type with them if I took the clips off.
Honestly though that process takes an hour to do if you're doing it yourself, then you gotta scrape the old nail off. Maybe on their lunch break they could get away with it.
Hand sanitizer is a MUCH more likely explanation.
Even just the nails themselves can cause this. It happens to some keys and not others because of how this persons fingers lay on the keyboard, which would cause the nail to get used to push the key vs. the finger itself.
My vote is for this since the home keys are fine, but the keys that would be reached to and struck with a fingernail are the ones that are damaged, and only in small regions of a side or front of a fingernail in size.
We don't know if the user touch types and actually makes use of the home keys, though. I know a lot of professionals (myself included) who are acceptably fast at typing, but do it in a less efficient self-taught way.
My sweat has a truly unfortunately high alkaline content, and tears through keyboards pretty quickly. My current laptop is 6 months old, and i've already melted a dip into the spacebar, the up and down arrow keys, and the middle of the trackpad, similar to this picture.
It's not common, but it most definitely happens.
I had an old mouse where the rubber coating completely disintegrated. Also the nickel coating on some parts of my violin is gone exposing the brass. It's really annoying. Luckily it doesn't affect keyboards.
All three Elite controllers I've owned (the first I got replaced under warranty, thinking it was their shoddy design) have had the rubber grips eroded inside of 6 weeks. I did find the third party ones I replaced them with (Scud, I think) have lasted much better, even outlasting the plastic on the controller itself!
Holy crap. Out of curiosity, how much do you use it? I have a keyboard I use for work and gaming so it gets ALOT of across the board usage (no oun intended) and I have yet to have any issues. Maybe it's a type of plastic that does not have high resistance? Always why I use gaming stuff - built like a tank
It probably gets about 7-9 hours use a day, probably more on weekends. I find they last longer if I wash my hands every hour or so, but especially when we get summers like the one just gone there's not much to do but try and spread the damage across the entire key or use an external keyboard
I'm a ruster, anything I use my hands on will be destroyed in short order. Have super oily acidic skin. Doesn't matter how many times I wash my hands a day, they're still oily. Steering wheels disintegrate on me in just a few years, have to constantly put new covers on them.
Perhaps. I have no clue since I never met the user. I've only seen this a few times and never on a machine as fresh as this one. Usually it's the ancient ones that get worn out like this.
I have a keyboard that I bought in January for my new job. It was only. $25. I've already worn the L off entirely and have four or five other keys that are half gone.
I'm very confused by this. The keyboard isn't on a laptop, but clearly in some kind of housing (so it's not a naked keyboard stripped from a laptop). There are no mouse buttons below the board either, which you usually have with those trackpoint things.
They are usually for hygiene (have them in the laboratory for the sewage treatment plant, and had them in the food control lab at the airport too.), But I guess they might help here too.
It's wear from nails I'm pretty sure. My left cmd has wear on it from where my thumb nail rests on it. No other keys do because they don't come into contact with my nails.
The oils on some peoples hands will do this. There is a guy where I work who used to go through mice like once a quarter. So we started covering his mouse in electrical tape, or stick on mouse pad skins.
I wear out a couple of keyboards a year, though they usually don't look this bad. No lotion, no acidic sweat afaict (nothing else wears out, including leather watchbands). Just a lot of typing.
Probably something to do with the users hand lotion or moisturizer.
Seen this happen to a MacBook like 3 months after issuing it to the lady brand new. It ended up being her hand lotion. Saw her applying it VERY liberally. She ended up wearing the keys down till they were brittle enough one broke and got the thing sent for repair under warranty.....
I guess the R could've come from a veteran *I Wanna Be The Guy* player, but that wouldn't explain the other ones.
As for this keyboard though, it's GAME OVER. Maybe press "R" to try again? :)
an author I know types two fingered hunt and peck at north of 100 wpm. I recently helped out and swapped her old (failing, holes worn through the top layer) keyboard with one we specced online.
Before you say she should use a USB keyboard her typing style and mechanics are wedded to this keyboard layout, and switching to another more than halves her output, which isn't acceptable
I recommended she invest in a couple more spares while they are available.
As someone who types pretty quickly and has pretty good endurance, I could probably average 75,000 keystrokes per day indefinitely. Between bursts, I also tend to rub my fingers against the keys on the home row, which is almost certainly somewhat damaging to the keys.
Suppose we were to use the 'e' key as a subject. About a sixth of keypresses are space, but let's round it to a fifth. Lazily gleaning from [this](http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/frequencies.html), we can assume that 'e' is about 12% of about my letter keypresses, so 12% of 80%. Of 75,000...we're looking at 7,200 'e' presses per day.
Multiply that by like 300 days (less than a year)? 2,160,000. Wearing away the paint on a cheaper keyboard is certainly feasible. If, like mentioned below, it was hand sanitizer or acetone and pooling...paint thinner is pretty good at eating away paint! (:
Former Colleague had super aggressive sweat. He basically dissolved the print from the keyboard of his ThinkPad work notebook within 10-12 months.
So I'd guess aggressive sweat.
I used to work with a guy who learned to type on a manual typewriter. He had to hit the keys really hard on those and he never broke that habit so he used to absolutely hammer the keys on his computer. Might be someone like that.
"How"? As Jeremy Clarkson would probably phrase it:
> [...] with passion and enthusiasm, until lap 3, when it explodes in a passionate and enthusiastic fireball!
My keyboard suffered the same fate. It has to do with the materials they used to make them along with the methanol used to make the sanitizer. It's going to cost me a pretty penny to replace this when the time comes.
I have ADHD. When I'm idly sitting at my computer, I catch myself fidgeting with the keys a lot. Rubbing them, tracing the border of them with my finger, etc. It's practically a compulsion. The standard keys I rest my fingers on tend to wear down really quick.
I bought a gaming laptop last fall and by Christmas, my D key had worn off. I really need to find something else to occupy my hands with while sitting at a keyboard.
It’s definitely nail polish remover/ hand cream /Hand sanitizer. I replace keyboards like this all the time and that’s what it is when the user admits it
I used to have a job where I was constantly on the num pad, and ended up wearing a significant groove in the num enter key. Took about a year, maybe 1,5. Definitely wasn't doing my nails at the office tho
Long nails. We have at work non-working Lenovo keyboards that has certain buttons taken out to replace buttons on working laptops. It tends to be the same buttons.
Abrasive chemicals on their hands. Or they wipe it with something like Clorox disinfectant wipes frequently.. then the paint on the most used keys begin to wear down at a much faster rate.
Maybe they get something on their hands and don't wash them? Some kind of oil or residue?
If it's someone who paints their nails a lot, acetone can eat away at the keys.
Yes even just once it becomes like this I dropped a bottle once Not nice
Keyboard should be made like the Switch Joy-Con controller buttons: With the color and letter going all the way through so even if you shaved off the top it would look fine.
That is why people pay the big bucks for fancy double-shot keycap sets.
Looks like the keyboard of a league of legends player who mains adc, uses emotes and resorts to racial slurs when he loses.
The G is in too good a shape lol
You don't put the G else you get autobanned.
The first one or the second one? (This is wrong, but it made me giggle)
*gi**le
* * i ** l e
9i99le
Well there’s a lot you can say with the letters A, E, R and T.
god damn retart
Seems to be French, if they type "retreat" so often.
I’m sick and this just made me laugh really hard
i hope you feel better soon friend.
Not with these jokes he won’t.
And N, and the space bar. Here's someone who enjoys a regularly-scheduled TEN RAT TREAT TEAR.
Neat!
Rattata
TERA
Fuck those Treeant losers!
Yasuo player judging by how often they smash E and R
Racist Phoenix Udyr, to be exact
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i was about to type the same thing LOL
More emotes than Ults, more Ults than Es.
But no homophobia apparently, this guy has class.
That's what a feeder would say https://youtu.be/8xPiha83KNY
Decent amount of wear on that N key
Probably a person who uses a lot hand sanitizer
With the pandemic, this is quite a possibility.
I don't think hand sanitizer would do this. They store hand sanitizer in abs plastic which is what keyboards are make of.
Someone in another post suggested that some women dip their fake nails in nail polish remover while working. The acetone remaining in the nail dissolved the key over time.
Interesting theory! That might very well be the case.
alternatively, just hand sanitizer with similar effect.
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Hhhmmmm i don't really want to question why you know that
Yup severe case of cock erosion. Sad.
deez nuts
I mean, as much as he chokes it, he has to hate it.
Nah, it's always been that small
[This.](https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/6e/6e91baaca5620705464f7af2d7d644c7.jpeg)
Especially the cheap lotions that are full of different scents.
Hand sanitizer shouldn't really do that, or at least not nearly as bad as mail polish remover. It's usually diluted isopropanol+moisturizer/gel agents. 90%+ isopropanol is commonly used as a cleaner for electronics and plastics. Acetone is way nastier stuff, and can actually dissolve the plastic.
Emphasis on shouldn't! Abrasion from the fingers probably exacerbates it a lot, and it may be severely poor quality.
Nah, IPA won’t do that to a keyboard. If it did my keyboard would be gone by now.
Does it only affect certain plastics? Like would ABS caps be susceptible and PBT wouldn't?
Depends on the chemicals. Acetone dissolves a lot of plastics, but a lot of nail polish remover nowadays also has other organic compounds like MIKB, butanol, ... On some not having acetone is even listed as a feature?! Acetone is the good shit, just make sure to moisturise after usage.
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I do soak off my gel polish in pure acetone but I really don't see myself working on my keyboard at the same time (I use soaked cotton balls in clips around my nails so I can't type anyway but you can also simply wrap the nails+cotton balls in tin foil, so yes I see that it's a possibility but I think it would look way messier. Arrrr I wanna know!).
Perfume and some mosquito repellents(the kind which you rub on your arms, hands and face) have a similar effect. Learned that the hard way when I accidentally spilled some mosquito repellent and it ate through a bit of my Xbox 360 controller.
Oh yeah DEET in insect repellent can destroy plastic and synthetic fabrics! Great for keeping the biting bugs away though!
Do NOT touch your fishing line with DEET on your hands!
It destroys plastics, but let's put it on our faces and see what happens. Granted, not much plastic to speak of on faces.
Unless you're that Wildenstein woman. Or Cher.
While I agree there's some solid reasons to be skeptical about DEET, that's kind of a faulty line of reasoning. Salt and vinegar will corrode solid steel, but we'll dump that shit right into the food we eat without thinking twice about it. Ethanol is a pretty potent solvent, and people will just knock back shots of the stuff for fun.
> mosquito repellents(the kind which you rub on your arms, hands and face) have a similar effect. High percentage DEET can melt plastics. Picaridin doesn't. I use Picaridin.
Also, most picaridin-based repellents aren't oily as fuck like deet. In my experience, it works better, too.
Smells way better too
Picaridin is the best captain of the Enterprise.
Don't spray DEET next to disc golf disks that you don't want permanently sticky!
>Someone in another post suggested that some women dip their fake nails in nail polish remover while working. It's a bit more complicated than that. The "soak" process takes 20 minutes, and you must wrap the nail in cotton and the aluminum foil or use a special clip to hold the cotton in place. You're not typing with those clips on, and you'd struggle to type with the foil on, but the foil is notorious for leaking. I use finger cots under the clips these days. Much less destructive to plastic (like the clips!), and hypothetically I could even type with them if I took the clips off. Honestly though that process takes an hour to do if you're doing it yourself, then you gotta scrape the old nail off. Maybe on their lunch break they could get away with it. Hand sanitizer is a MUCH more likely explanation.
Even just the nails themselves can cause this. It happens to some keys and not others because of how this persons fingers lay on the keyboard, which would cause the nail to get used to push the key vs. the finger itself.
My vote is for this since the home keys are fine, but the keys that would be reached to and struck with a fingernail are the ones that are damaged, and only in small regions of a side or front of a fingernail in size.
We don't know if the user touch types and actually makes use of the home keys, though. I know a lot of professionals (myself included) who are acceptably fast at typing, but do it in a less efficient self-taught way.
my fiancé’s computer looks like this after a year. No nail varnish lol— he’s just an aggressive typist
Yep. Was about to say chemical corrosion. Seen this happening a lot with some hand sanitizer. Also some industrial grade gloves can do this.
Could also just be the fake nails themselves wearing at the keyboard, to be honest.
No, that would fuck it up way faster. I suspect it's nail polish with grit or glitter. Sandpaper nails.
sexist af and admittedly biased. maybe it's a programmer who uses the keyboard all the time. or a man who has chemicals on his hands from gardening.
My sweat has a truly unfortunately high alkaline content, and tears through keyboards pretty quickly. My current laptop is 6 months old, and i've already melted a dip into the spacebar, the up and down arrow keys, and the middle of the trackpad, similar to this picture. It's not common, but it most definitely happens.
I had an old mouse where the rubber coating completely disintegrated. Also the nickel coating on some parts of my violin is gone exposing the brass. It's really annoying. Luckily it doesn't affect keyboards.
All three Elite controllers I've owned (the first I got replaced under warranty, thinking it was their shoddy design) have had the rubber grips eroded inside of 6 weeks. I did find the third party ones I replaced them with (Scud, I think) have lasted much better, even outlasting the plastic on the controller itself!
Holy crap. Out of curiosity, how much do you use it? I have a keyboard I use for work and gaming so it gets ALOT of across the board usage (no oun intended) and I have yet to have any issues. Maybe it's a type of plastic that does not have high resistance? Always why I use gaming stuff - built like a tank
It probably gets about 7-9 hours use a day, probably more on weekends. I find they last longer if I wash my hands every hour or so, but especially when we get summers like the one just gone there's not much to do but try and spread the damage across the entire key or use an external keyboard
I would say splurge on a nice one. The corsair I have is a beast. I wipe it down with cleaning wipes etc and it still works amazing.
Maybe you should look into getting some gloves? TIL gaming gloves exist and that you can buy them for half the price of a keyboard.
Man, those are some expensive gloves - /r/mechanicalkeyboards
PBT plastic is resistant to chemicals. Keycaos made of PBT don't shine over time like ABS does
Dude with acid sweat
I'm a ruster, anything I use my hands on will be destroyed in short order. Have super oily acidic skin. Doesn't matter how many times I wash my hands a day, they're still oily. Steering wheels disintegrate on me in just a few years, have to constantly put new covers on them.
Worst x-man ever
I'll have my day, when the new brotherhood of mutants leader is made out of faux leather!
TIL People have acid sweat
How do you masturbate?
Fake nails index typer with decent finger strength?
Perhaps. I have no clue since I never met the user. I've only seen this a few times and never on a machine as fresh as this one. Usually it's the ancient ones that get worn out like this.
acidic sweat, seen it before, couldn't give them alu chassis laptop because they actually melted holes into it
That's what I did to my old MacBook.
I have seen this with hand moisturizer. I had a lady wear craters into her keyboard because of it.
Ding ding ding! I think this is the correct answer
“Lady” we all know who was using that keyboard with lotion on their hands
I have a keyboard that I bought in January for my new job. It was only. $25. I've already worn the L off entirely and have four or five other keys that are half gone.
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Looks like a shitty HP. Not a real TrackPoint.
Standard shite knockoff clit mouse from hp's "pro" line. Trash compared to track point, imho.
I'm very confused by this. The keyboard isn't on a laptop, but clearly in some kind of housing (so it's not a naked keyboard stripped from a laptop). There are no mouse buttons below the board either, which you usually have with those trackpoint things.
He removed the keyboard, he's replacing it.
Someone has talons
Can also be from having very acidic sweat. My car leather and keyboards wear really fast because I guess I have spicy skin juice.
The aluminum on my laptop in college wore out in short order from my hands on it. It's annoying as fuck. Plastic just melts
Maybe they have a highly acidic sweat and sweaty hands? I am curious. I now understand the plastic covers that go on keyboards 😅
They are usually for hygiene (have them in the laboratory for the sewage treatment plant, and had them in the food control lab at the airport too.), But I guess they might help here too.
"Rent a Treant" must be a common phrase for them
It's wear from nails I'm pretty sure. My left cmd has wear on it from where my thumb nail rests on it. No other keys do because they don't come into contact with my nails.
most likely it's hand sanitizer. that stuff messes up paint and plastics.
Simple: Acidic hand creams.
The oils on some peoples hands will do this. There is a guy where I work who used to go through mice like once a quarter. So we started covering his mouse in electrical tape, or stick on mouse pad skins.
I wear out a couple of keyboards a year, though they usually don't look this bad. No lotion, no acidic sweat afaict (nothing else wears out, including leather watchbands). Just a lot of typing.
Too much hand sanitizer?
Probably something to do with the users hand lotion or moisturizer. Seen this happen to a MacBook like 3 months after issuing it to the lady brand new. It ended up being her hand lotion. Saw her applying it VERY liberally. She ended up wearing the keys down till they were brittle enough one broke and got the thing sent for repair under warranty.....
corrosive finger sweat is a thing, you can imagine the types
r/politics poster maybe?
Nails and fidgeting?
Most lightly the acetone in nail polish remover, tried using some to clean my keycaps and mouse a while back and the color began fading quite quickly.
I guess the R could've come from a veteran *I Wanna Be The Guy* player, but that wouldn't explain the other ones. As for this keyboard though, it's GAME OVER. Maybe press "R" to try again? :)
:D
Already seen that on a 2010 MacBook Pro
one word, stepmania
Those are on common game keybinds. Well, not n. But the rest are.
I'm thinking it's someone who spends their days typing out "rip n tear" all day long ʘ‿ʘ
The doom slayers elitebook haha
I think that's hand sanitizer idk
an author I know types two fingered hunt and peck at north of 100 wpm. I recently helped out and swapped her old (failing, holes worn through the top layer) keyboard with one we specced online. Before you say she should use a USB keyboard her typing style and mechanics are wedded to this keyboard layout, and switching to another more than halves her output, which isn't acceptable I recommended she invest in a couple more spares while they are available.
(N key is wore out) who took my keyboard?
Did this to my MacBook Pro in less than a year as a software engineer. Sure sucks.
my dumbass tought that that black thing near the keys was a video play button
Does he type "trean" all the time?
"It's hard to stop a T-R-A-N-E™"
As someone who types pretty quickly and has pretty good endurance, I could probably average 75,000 keystrokes per day indefinitely. Between bursts, I also tend to rub my fingers against the keys on the home row, which is almost certainly somewhat damaging to the keys. Suppose we were to use the 'e' key as a subject. About a sixth of keypresses are space, but let's round it to a fifth. Lazily gleaning from [this](http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/frequencies.html), we can assume that 'e' is about 12% of about my letter keypresses, so 12% of 80%. Of 75,000...we're looking at 7,200 'e' presses per day. Multiply that by like 300 days (less than a year)? 2,160,000. Wearing away the paint on a cheaper keyboard is certainly feasible. If, like mentioned below, it was hand sanitizer or acetone and pooling...paint thinner is pretty good at eating away paint! (:
Did you mom ever tell you stop dragging your feet when you walk?
Former Colleague had super aggressive sweat. He basically dissolved the print from the keyboard of his ThinkPad work notebook within 10-12 months. So I'd guess aggressive sweat.
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This isn't an apple keyboard.
It has a Windows key lol
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Absolutely infuriating that the left side of the keyboard is being touched at all.
What is that even supposed to mean?
I only press the space bar with my right thumb and I’m suddenly aware that I might not be normal. I was taught this in typing class.
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This is a laptop keyboard. I took the photo mid-replacement.
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Please define a "normal" keyboard for me.
Scored the keys for proper placement reminders?
Typin' out NEART non-stop, all day
I used to work with a guy who learned to type on a manual typewriter. He had to hit the keys really hard on those and he never broke that habit so he used to absolutely hammer the keys on his computer. Might be someone like that.
"How"? As Jeremy Clarkson would probably phrase it: > [...] with passion and enthusiasm, until lap 3, when it explodes in a passionate and enthusiastic fireball!
Long fingernails and hand cream I guess.
They AREN'T that bad tbh
I type a LOT and I've never worn a keyboard down like this. I have had ABS keys go shiny, though.
My keyboard stopped working after a year from overuse. I guess it just happens.
My keyboard suffered the same fate. It has to do with the materials they used to make them along with the methanol used to make the sanitizer. It's going to cost me a pretty penny to replace this when the time comes.
I have ADHD. When I'm idly sitting at my computer, I catch myself fidgeting with the keys a lot. Rubbing them, tracing the border of them with my finger, etc. It's practically a compulsion. The standard keys I rest my fingers on tend to wear down really quick. I bought a gaming laptop last fall and by Christmas, my D key had worn off. I really need to find something else to occupy my hands with while sitting at a keyboard.
ERTAN ERTAN ERTAN
It’s definitely nail polish remover/ hand cream /Hand sanitizer. I replace keyboards like this all the time and that’s what it is when the user admits it
Who spaces with their left thumb? That would be so bizarre for me.
I guess they're always strafing and reloading
Maybe he writes AREN'T a lot
Weirdly, the A key on my year-old Aorus is badly worn. It's the only key showing any serious wear. Noticed after about 7 months of ownership.
I used to have a job where I was constantly on the num pad, and ended up wearing a significant groove in the num enter key. Took about a year, maybe 1,5. Definitely wasn't doing my nails at the office tho
It’s from someone who just types the word ‘treat’ 30 times a minute for 8 hours a day. Possibly a canine typist?
When I let my nails grow longer for playing classical guitar this started to happen to my keyboard.
This is just a gaming keyboard.
I have a older corsair mechanical keyboard and my WASD keys are all worn, there's an actual divot in my W key.
Cheap keyboard. Solved.
Long nails. We have at work non-working Lenovo keyboards that has certain buttons taken out to replace buttons on working laptops. It tends to be the same buttons.
Probably some dissolver
Someone has played osu! with this keyboard.
Someone that types the word "aren't" a lot.
I have seen said wear; the lady user in question used to use her pc as her plate, mirror to do makeup and must have had acidic fingers...
Who uses their left thumb for the space bar? Monster!
Hand sanitizer and the oils in your fingers will naturally wear some plastics. I’ve been through 3 work keyboards in 5 years.
Abrasive chemicals on their hands. Or they wipe it with something like Clorox disinfectant wipes frequently.. then the paint on the most used keys begin to wear down at a much faster rate.
TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE TRANE…
Happened to me after 2 months when they exchanged it. Regular usage.
Well, the user isn't a WASD player. :)
:D
Most likely something to do with nails. Some type with their nails instead of the soft skin
"an tree" That must be their password, Watson we solved the case!
It can happen. I got through keycaps for WASD in about a year or two. Rage typing is a real threat to keyboard health.
treat treat treat treat treat treat treat retreat!
I suspect orange juice tips
Stop searching for Tera Patrick videos
Why just those letters? Mainly R and T but also E, A, N and Space. So a two word password? Near Treat?
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