Logitech G915 TKL Lightspeed

This is the keyboard I type on every day, and the reason is geometry rather than switches.

Why I like it

Dropping the number pad moves the mouse about 90 mm closer to the centre line. That sounds like a detail until you have spent a year at a full-size board with your right arm abducted all day. The tenkeyless layout is the ergonomic feature; everything else is preference.

The low-profile GL switches travel 2.7 mm rather than the usual 4 mm. I would not claim they are better, because they are not: a full-travel mechanical switch has more to say for itself under the finger. What they are is quieter and flatter, which matters if you take calls from the same desk you type at, and the flatness is what lets the board sit at a wrist angle you can hold for hours.

Lightspeed wireless is the part I stopped noticing, which is the correct outcome for a radio protocol. One receiver serves both this and the mouse. Battery life is measured in weeks, not hours, so charging is something that happens when you happen to think of it.

The honest caveat

Held Space behaves oddly in some games, and if you ever see that, suspect your own machine before the keyboard. I spent three months measuring a "dying spacebar" on this board. Every measurement was real and the conclusion was wrong: a voice dictation service was installing a low-level keyboard hook on Space, swallowing the hold and re-emitting a synthetic tap. The board was healthy the whole time. That is not a fault in the G915; it is the reason I now check what is hooking the input stack before blaming hardware.

Who it's for

• Anyone whose mouse hand ends the day further right than their shoulder wants.
• People who want a wireless mechanical board without a dongle for every device.
• Not for you if you enter numbers all day, or if you want the depth of a full-travel switch. The number pad is genuinely gone, and a separate one costs back the desk space you just bought.