Attempting to Silence the Ducky One 3 Keyboard Ping with Foam

📅 January 21, 2022
“What?! You paid how much for glorified packing foam?”

Excuse me while I take a deep breath and regain my composure, but my minimalist pocket clip needs a moment to recuperate.

The Ducky One 3 Fuji is a pretty good mechanical keyboard out of the box, and I like it. However, it is not perfect. One tiny annoyance is the slight keyboard ping that can be heard while typing. It sounds like a “spring ping” echoing through the interior of the keyboard. Of course, the Ducky One 2 Horizon exhibited this ping too, so it is not unique to the Ducky One 3. While not a dealbreaker, the ping can become noticeable over extended typing sessions.

I had the brilliant idea of stuffing the keyboard with foam to help dampen the ping noise and make the keyboard quieter.

How do you open the Ducky One 3 keyboard without breaking it? What kind of foam did I use? Did it even work?

Here are my results…

The Ducky One 3 Mechanical Keyboard and Linux

📅 January 7, 2022
It seems every time I use a new keyboard, its quality feels better than the last and I am left thinking, “Wow, this is the best keyboard that I have ever used!”

I had the opportunity to use the new Ducky One 3 full-size mechanical keyboard with the eye-popping-but-not-too-popping sakura pink Fuji color scheme, and I am enjoying it. This is another fine keyboard from Ducky that makes typing a fun experience.

Here are my thoughts about this plastic wonder used with Linux.