NuPhy Kick75

If you’ve been around the mechanical keyboard scene for a while, NuPhy’s name has probably come up at some point, most likely attached to one of their Air series low-profile boards. Over the past few years they’ve put out keyboards that look better than they have any right to at their price point, with a sound and feel that punches above their weight class and without the pretentiousness that usually comes with enthusiast hardware. The Kick75 is one of their more interesting releases so far, because it’s a hybrid-profile board. It is one PCB and one chassis that take two different switch and keycap ecosystems, using a relatively inexpensive swap kit. This is not the kind of board I’d normally gravitate towards, as my collection is more on the enthusiast side of the hobby, with a RAMA M60-A as my HHKB endgame, a RAMA KARA as its wingman, and the “Kunai” Corne V3 as my ergonomic daily driver. The 75% layout has never quite, erm, clicked for me. :-) Still, the Kick75 is interesting…