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How clean is your keyboard?
2006-10-06, 8:19 PM #1
How much dirt, hair, and other muck is in your keyboard right now? It's time to find out who has the cleanest keyboard around.



I just sprayed my keyboard with windex, so it's pretty clean right now on the contact areas of the keys, but deep down and on the sides of the keys its absolutely filthy. It's interesting how the keys I don't use too often (like Scroll lock and pause/break) are usually the dirtiest).

I've heard that you can put keyboards in the dishwasher without damage to get them clean, is this true?
2006-10-06, 8:29 PM #2
I think as long as as its a relatively harmless wash and it is dryed throughly then yes.

Cleaner then most.
2006-10-06, 8:32 PM #3
The keyboard on my main PC is pretty damned disgusting, I've been using the same one for a few years now and have never cleaned it. I'm replacing it soon, I'm going to try and take better care of the new one, especially since it's likely to be expensive.

As for the dishwasher thing, I wouldn't. There's a small controller circuit board in the keyboard, unless you want to wait until it drys out completely before using it, you're better off just taking it apart and cleaning the plastic pieces (these you could probably put in the dishwasher if you wanted).
2006-10-06, 8:37 PM #4
I used to work in a very unclean and rough ATV garage. The computer they had was absolutely pathetic. (head mechanic drilled air holes in the side to make it run faster)

There was so much dirt on the keyboard that you couldn't see which keys were what. It was DIRTY.

As for my keyboard, I clean if often. I even take a papertowel and wedge it inbetween the keys to get those little side parts that are always dirty.
2006-10-06, 8:48 PM #5
Well, my keybaord I'm using now is only a week or two old, but the Dell keyboard is pretty bad.
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2006-10-06, 8:55 PM #6
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2006-10-06, 8:56 PM #7
I take mine apart and wash it about once a month.
2006-10-06, 10:18 PM #8
I think my wife uses my keyboard at home more then I do...for what it's worth...
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2006-10-06, 10:21 PM #9
considering that i cleaned my room today, its pretty clean. i have a little brush that i use to get all the dirt out of the keys then just wipe it off.
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2006-10-07, 12:08 AM #10
Originally posted by Axis:
I used to work in a very unclean and rough ATV garage. The computer they had was absolutely pathetic. (head mechanic drilled air holes in the side to make it run faster)

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2006-10-07, 12:27 AM #11
Mines just kinda dusty.

its new!
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2006-10-07, 12:28 AM #12
A friggin' mess. Push-pins are not the ideal tool for cleaning a keyboard, but presently they're all I've got to work with.
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2006-10-07, 1:20 AM #13
Let's see. There's fingernails, lots of hair, sperm, coffee, ice cream, chocolad.. it's all over the keyboard, the screen, the case. It still works tho.

And now we're talking about my laptop.
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2006-10-07, 1:34 AM #14
There seems to be something (most likely dust) under (and between) the keys, but nothing else. Clean as a baby butt.
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2006-10-07, 2:23 AM #15
There's some dust between the keys, but nothing else. As I haven't seen all the keyboards in the world, I don't know how clean most are, but mine is cleaner than most of the other keyboards I've seen.
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2006-10-07, 2:58 AM #16
Sterile, because this is a week-old keyboard fresh out of the box.

But the other one? Far-gone biohazard.
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2006-10-07, 3:43 AM #17
Absolutely spotless, but it's a laptop so I'm being overly careful with keeping dust and dirt away from it :P The computer keyboard I shared with my brother at home was pretty dirty most of the time. I usually ended up giving it a quick clean before I could get anything done.
2006-10-07, 4:07 AM #18
My powerbook is spotless, but my office keyby is an absolute disgrace - it's ****ing filthy and sticky and horrible - covered in flour, bacon grease, dust, ming, filth and general badness.

If I take this other job I get a brand new computer with awesome monitor and get to play Half Life deathmatch at lunchtime with my boss. How good is that?!
2006-10-07, 4:36 AM #19
I have a dirty, dirty keyboard.
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2006-10-07, 6:16 AM #20
biohazard keyboard. it actually met its end about a week ago when a friend of mine spilled beer on it, so now i have a new keyboard :-D
2006-10-07, 6:49 AM #21
Mine is clean. I take all the keys off it and wash it every few months.
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2006-10-07, 7:11 AM #22
Originally posted by TheJkWhoSaysNi:
Mine is clean. I take all the keys off it and wash it every few months.

I do that about every 6 months or so. Mouse, too.
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2006-10-07, 8:04 AM #23
I voted average.

It would be up closer to a biohazard if I hadn't cleaned it out summer of 2005 (though I managed to break the connection to the ScrollLock button). After about 10 years of existence, it can really pick up a lot of crap.

Sooner or later I may clean it again, but with more than just water and lots of scrubbing.
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2006-10-07, 8:27 AM #24
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2006-10-07, 8:34 AM #25
Mine's a little dusty, but I clean my computers and keyboards with canned air every two weeks (I decided to do this when I moved my computer away from the wall once and the exhaust had put a large, black circle on the wall behind it)
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2006-10-07, 10:55 AM #26
I spilt whiskey-coke on my number pad awhile back, and now most of those keys don't like to cooperate. /_\
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2006-10-08, 2:25 AM #27
I take good care of my keyboards and mice and clean them whenever it's needed. The only problem is my laptops keyboard is slowly dying due to extensive use.
My PC's keyboard gets replaced ever few years because the keys start to wear away and the letters disappear.

Moral of the story, I spend too much time on the computer and we both pay the price :(
2006-10-08, 11:20 AM #28
I took my keyboard completely apart and washed every little bit of it when I changed over to Dvorak. So it's sterile. It's also a lot quieter now.
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2006-10-08, 11:22 AM #29
Quieter?

I mean, I sorta like the sound keyboard makes when you press the keys. Makes me feel productive.
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2006-10-08, 11:24 AM #30
Well it wasn't really a nice "click" noise, which I do like; more akin to a "thud" or something.. like the keys were sticking to and smashing little chunks of various organic materials...
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2006-10-08, 11:53 AM #31
mine's decently clean. Mostly dust everywhere but the wasd keys.
The one I had before this one was filled with dirt and food an stuff.
And I haven't used it for close to 6 months I think, and I pulled it out yesterday and saw that several places between the keys had become rather fuzzy.
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2006-10-08, 12:26 PM #32
Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
How much dirt, hair, and other muck is in your keyboard right now? It's time to find out who has the cleanest keyboard around.



I just sprayed my keyboard with windex, so it's pretty clean right now on the contact areas of the keys, but deep down and on the sides of the keys its absolutely filthy. It's interesting how the keys I don't use too often (like Scroll lock and pause/break) are usually the dirtiest).

I've heard that you can put keyboards in the dishwasher without damage to get them clean, is this true?


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2006-10-08, 5:37 PM #33
My desktop keyboard used to be home to a family of ants. :o
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2006-10-08, 6:13 PM #34
What? Ew
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2006-10-08, 8:30 PM #35
I think it's funny that no one has picked the "A little bit sticky..." option.
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2006-10-08, 8:52 PM #36
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2006-10-09, 5:42 AM #37
Originally posted by JudgeDredd:
I think it's funny that no one has picked the "A little bit sticky..." option.

eh, i spilled some really sweet hot-tea on mine last night, and now, it's a "little bit stickey"... oh well
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2006-10-10, 12:49 PM #38
I'm very careful to avoid getting my keyboard dirty in the first place. However, it's really hard to get those spots inside particularly clean, so I usually resent cleaning the keyboard. Hence, it's usually pretty clean, but you can tell it's not perfectly clean.
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